Re: [photo-3d] Digital

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:00 AM 04/28/2001, you wrote:
>Of course digital camera's will improve drastically in the next few
>years and will aquire devotees who would die for it.
>Not me, however. I love film and I can digitise it if I want to.

The point is not whether digital is or will be "better" than film.  The 
point is that film will disappear.  Slide film is already difficult to 
find, and film in general will become scarcer, more expensive, and harder 
to find processing for.  The demise of Kodachrome 25 is just the first step 
in this chain.

There are still people who buy records, but basically, in about 10-15 
years, that became a completely moribund medium.  Meanwhile, however, the 
music industry has flourished as a result of the CD.  I think digital 
photography will do more to advance amateur photography than anything that 
could be done with a film-based technology.  However, we devotees will have 
to push for high-end solutions as well as the consumer-targetted 
middle-of-the-road stuff, or will end up in the same position as Betamax users.

-pd


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