[photo-3d] Re: I still say it won't

["Chuck Holzner" <cfholzner@xxxxxxxx>]

--- In photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxx, Herbert C Maxey <bmaxey1@xxxx> wrote:
> >>When digital cameras get to 35 mega pixels they will have 
exceeded 
> >>the resolution of most 35 MM film (100 LPMM). Of course they will 
> >>have to double that for stereo.  Will they get there?
> 
> Most likely they will. However, at what cost? There is a thriving 
market
> for this when it occurs and it will not be us. It will be high end 
users
> willing to spend fortunes for good digital cameras. Breakthroughs 
will
> need to be made. In the meantime, we have that in film. We do not 
have to
> spend a fortune for high quality.

What you say is true--- NOW.   But digital is just starting and is on 
the move improving much faster than film.  Film is best now but for 
how long?  As far as I know all xrays are now done without film and 
the newspaper photos are all done digital too.

All this digital stuff will get cheaper with time.  Ten years back, 
how many of us had a computer?  Aren't they cheaper now? Printers 
sure are.

> 
> Then there is the issue of prints and Transparencies, and how to 
display
> the images from these future cameras. No printer I have seen can 
compare
> to film. A few come close, but that's it.

We have a color printer where I work that does 1,200 pixels per inch 
and it is several years old.  Printers are improving too.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bob - Notice note once did I say the "K" word?

I noticed that.

I really like to use film myself and will hate to see it go.  When I 
picked up my latest roll of slides from my local lab I found that 
they just raised prices on developing 71%.  That is the second raise 
in two years.  Slide film is hard to get locally and I  get it mail 
order.  There is writing on the wall; maybe RBT's S2 will be digital.

Chuck