Re: New 3D business opportunity -- let's get rick quick!!

[P3D George Gioumousis <georggms@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> >>This whole discussion of digital versus film has been pretty pointless -
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> >Has it been?  I don't think so.
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> >>the digital folks are talking about what's possible for the future, and
> >>the film folks are talking about what's available right now.
> 
I have found the discussion a little strange, but let me take on my
role as an old-timer for a second:

Years ago, when I bought a movie camera, I noticed that the miniscule
Super-8 movie frame had lots more resolution than a TV screen. For my
purpose, which was little snippets of my healthy, athletic young
children, the movie camera was far superior to the heavy, expensive
VCR's of the time. Now, when VCR's are much improved, the movies 
still look better than what I can get on a TV screen.

In time, as the children became young adults, and then middle-aged
adults, I lost my taste for movies, and the movie camera sits in a
box in a closet waiting for grandchildren.

I've experimented with photo-CD's and with images on disk from Seattle
Filmworks and Dale. I chose to get a fairly good terminal when I bought
my latest computer a few years ago, but the pictures on the screen don't
compare in quality to a cheap drug-store print, let alone a projected slide.
It's fun, and my next computer will have a still better monitor, but I don't
see myself ever being tempted to give up slides.

Anyway, my point is that the new technologies have pluses and minuses, and
we have to pick and choose according to what is important to us as serious
photographers. For my part, I won't give up my beloved silver halide 
emulsions for anything digital, but on the other hand I'll try out the
digital toys when I can afford to.


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