Quality comparisons - digital photography
by Joe Mikuliak

These examples are from my digital camera or scanner. Their sizes have been adjusted but
they have not been sharpened, color balanced, contrast enhanced, or otherwise digitally manipulated.

MacBeth Color
Checker
Chart

digital camera
(left)

scanned slide
(right)

Andrew Turner
"The Bass Player"

9MB digital photo
(tif file)

vs.

82 MB scan of a
4" x 5"
color transparency

Digital camera photo
(on left & near right)

Detail from
scan of CT
(far right)

Lynne
Mikuliak
"The Swan Stayed Home"

Slide
vs.
digital

Digital camera photo -
 original
jpg file size 824KB
(left)

Scan of 35 mm slide original
jpg file
size 1.3MB
(right)

Indigene
"String
Mask"

2 digital photos

1) Small jpg file for
e-mail

2) Large tiff
file for
printing

detail of 640 by 480
jpg file

seen at 100%

detail of 2048 by 1536
tif file

seen at 100%

detail of the jpg file

enlarged to the size of
the tif file