Does size matter?

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In any film or digital process, you can never add data. Every step accepts one or more inputs and generates an output that usually has lost some amount of data and introduced what amounts to some bit of noise (or "uncertainty"). So, keep as much detail as you can, until the very last step of generating output files for delivery. Preserve each intermediate as separate, carefuly cataloged files. The final prints should always work from your highly-detailed masters and in one step generate whatever output you need. From what I see on the web, you'd better plan on doing several formats depending on where you intend to deploy (and you'd better review them on several different machines including your mother's).

This is why, if you're shooting beautiful landscape scenes for Arizona Highways Magazine, you'd better (still) be shooting 4x5 film on an "old-fashioned" bellows camera. The only way to get an acceptable print to come out on the final pages is to start with that much detail on the captured image.

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