P3D Digital / film

[Bob_Maxey@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

The choice of whether to use digital rather than conventional methods
depends upon how the images are to be used. High Res is worthless overkill
for Web work. If the output is to be slides you want to project, that is
different. Keep in mind that Film - especially a film like Kodachrome, will
out perform any existing digital methods, and if one wants to approach the
quality of film with digital techniques, the cost to play in the high
quality digital playground is a high one.

I use a relatively inexpensive HP Flatbed scanner to create illustrations
for training documents. We scan PC Boards, product covers and other such
objects, and the results are quite good for digital images. We choose this
route because the quality was high enough to use the images on our
Intranet. However, I have photographed the same items using Kodachrome and
the slides are vastly superior to the digital images. This leads to the
problem of converting the slides to digital files and we are back to the
problem of lesser quality.

Also, not too many people have the required computer resources to easily
deal with huge files in a convenient manner. I hear about those 500 -600MB
files and it is beyond me how someone with limited resources can manage
this size file.

Is there anyone on the list taking stereo digital photographs using twinned
digital cameras? Has anyone seen that insert for converting standard 35mm
cameras to digital cameras?

RM



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