Yup, It's pretty sci-fi, all right. But what'ya gotta picture is that this huge thing moves - I'm say'n it UNFOLDS into a bizarre giant bird-thing. It's huge! This high-res sample JPG file unpacks into a 6Mb beast. I hope your RAM can handle it. Oh! Another way I'm going hi-res is this: I've been in the habit of using high speed film. I've been going for depth of field (so I don't have to focus as carefully), and higher shutter speeds (so I don't have to use a tripod). Lately I've been learning the value of planning, and thinking-through the exposure process - the value of using a tripod, and thinking-through depth-of-field vs. exposure time optimization. I think that plenty of my shots that slightly lack a certain sharpness, or 'just don't sparkle' were never properly diagnosed as CAMERA (read 'photographer')-INDUCED MOTION BLUR! The grain in 400ASA or 800ASA film - which, if I read correctly, are actually "dye clouds" in this type - causes not only 'lack of resolution', but rather DISFUGURES the details. Slower films have not only a 'finer' grain, but a smoother grain structure. This image was recorded on Fuji one-hundred speed print film. I can see now that if the speed isn't required, and the optics can cut-the-mustard, then the fine grain offers an appreceable advantage (better evidenced in the actual photographic print). I'm just begining to develop a style of photography. I don't mean composition - I mean, technically speaking, the actual aquisition of the image. An eye for composition is another matter - that's where I would be more likely to fail. Am I talking too much?