Re: [photo-3d] DIGITAL...

[Herbert C Maxey <bmaxey1@xxxxxxxx>]

That was an interesting link to the web site about digital. However,
there were lots of If's and "According To's" in that article.
Additionally, the writer said "Digital images of the clarity achieved
with Foveon chip could begin to challenge even the much more expensive
4-by-5 film cameras made by companies like Hasselblad that are used by
professional photographers for portraiture, advertising and fashion."

Hasselblad does not make a 4 x 5 camera. When I read inaccuracies as
blatant as that, it tells me the article was not well researched, it
researched at all. As for the comment "Already, digital cameras being
sold on the consumer market for less than $1,000 are rivaling
35-millimeter film cameras"., I have yet to see one perform as well as
35mm if a top quality camera like Leica is used by a competent
photographer. To me, the article reads more like a press release than a
serious article about Digital Vs. Film

Granted, digital will get there, most likely, but I wonder at what cost?
There are issues related to storage space and how to deal with the output
when one wants to put those big digital files on film or paper, overall
cost, and other factors will keep this technology out of the hands of the
amateur, who can already rival the current crop of digital systems.

I might also add that very few of us will ever get our hands on a high
end digital system as discussed in the article unless we win a lottery. I
seriously doubt that the photographer who took the photograph of the
cowboy mentioned in the article could even afford the camera he used.

So, for me - I will stick with film for the foreseeable future, as I know
it will perform better than the next generation of digital systems. After
all, all I need is a nice 2-1/4 x 3-1/4 image and my darkroom to create
the types of high quality images now, that digital systems aspire to some
10 or 15 years in the future.

Bob - The Official P3D Old Fart Curmudgeon