P3D Digital?????

[Bob_Maxey@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

>>I also find the responce from Shutterbug strange, but then I often
>>find Shutterbug's responces strange.  Although I may have missed an
>>announcement (I didn't go to Photo Plus East this year), I know of
>>only one or two digital cameras that match the resolution of scanned
>>film, and they are both 4x5 scanning backs in the > $20,000 price
>>range.

Our department had a loner of one of these top end cameras. Film still was
better. I once brought my Bessa Rangefinder and took a photo of the front
of our manufacturing facility. I repeated it with the digital test camera.
no contest - film won out. Decades old technology still outperformed 1999
technology.

Before you all start wogging over the idea that digital will replace film,
remember, digital only works if everything in the chain is equally good.
Try to print a 150 - 300mb file and get a good print, and you will see that
digital has a long way to go.

RM