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Re: [photo-3d] Camera Coupling - Digital


  • From: Eric Miner <miners@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: [photo-3d] Camera Coupling - Digital
  • Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 17:20:05 -0700

Hello All, I don't want to start a 'holy war' but......

Could someopne post the date of publication for that Kodak statement.
Form what I'm currently reading pro-digital magazines there are now a
few manufacturers who have CCDs surpassing the resolution of film.
Granted, they are currently expensive. But, then again two years ago a 2
megapixal CCD was expensive. Olympus now has a 4 megapixal SLR on the
market at a very competitive price. And, as we know these prices fall
all the time.

I have to also agree that the ability to immediately view an image and
discard it if necessary is a wonder. I don't find it at all hard to put
together pairs and view them within minutes of uploading them. This in
combination with the far more granular control of the image makes
digital a winner in my book. I've spent lot of hours and loads of money
trying to fine tune a color image on film(well, paper actually). It's
just plain easier and more accurate in digital. Not to mention how easy
it is to do effects that are extremely difficult on film.

As for current consumer resolutions. I have a great Epson printer and
pairs printed at card size are on a par with chemical prints of the same
size. In fact my 8x10s are very impressive too. Now, I've never seen
digital images transferred to transparency so I can't comment. But I
suspect the quality is better then we'd expect. Keep in mind that about
30% (and growing) of all commercial images you see are digital. There's
some great high quality work out there. And, some of it's being done on
consumer equipment.

Was it Kodak who said that a  35mm motion picture image is less than 50%
of a still? I've seen 35mm motion picture film and it looked larger than
that to me.

My hope is that people in the stereo world pick up and use digital more.

I think it could be a real boon to stereo. Of course I'd love to see
more competitions accept digital images in a digital format.

Later,

Eric Miner

"Don't trust anything that can think for itself,
 if you can't see where it keeps its brain."


 

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