Topaz Lab’s Gigapixel 7
Toronto. After minicams became common, time and effort was spent to create developers that would reduce film grain and provided finer detail so negatives could be enlarged more without resulting in so called ’empty magnification’.
A similar situation in digital images results in pixelization as the image size is increased. In the early days of photoshop, many practitioners tried to ‘upscale’ images by carefully repeating smaller increments feeling such a process would offer better images.
In his “Lightroom Everywhere” blog #10, Brian Matiash’s article, “Three Reasons to Upscale Your Photos” extols the virtues of upscaling digital images using AI. His talk reviews the latest release of Topaz Labs’ Gigapixel 7 comparing the result to using the latest Photoshop technology with various settings.
So unless you are a dyed-in-the-wool aficionado of film, have a read of the blog #10 above. And remember, our fairs and auctions often offer both film and digital fans added gear and ideas. Don’t worry too much about this article – in 50 to 100 years it will be history 🙂
