Re: [photo-3d] Re: Digital & the demise of film

["John A. Rupkalvis" <stereoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: <CanterMike@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 1:02 PM
Subject: [photo-3d] Re: Digital & the demise of film


> --- In photo-3d@xxxx, Peter Davis <pd@xxxx> wrote, in part:
> >  There are still people who buy records, but basically, in about
> 10-15
> > years, that became a completely moribund medium
>
> Yes, exactly.  Just as the music industry does
> not (cannot?) ignore the audiophiles who purchase
> LP records, the film manufacturers will not (cannot?)
> ignore the film devotees.

Recently, there was a newspaper article about how there is only one (very
small, a family operation with, as I recall, a half dozen employees) vinyl
record pressing plant remaining on the West Coast.   Not that many years
ago, I recall ads in the hi-fi mags for VERY expensive turntables, Pabst or
hysteresis synchronous motors, ultralight tone arms/cartridges (diamond
stylus equipped), lathe bed tracking, etc.  What are the people who spent
all their hard-earned money on this equipment thinking now?

It has been said that predicting the future is quite easy.  Assigning a date
to it is what is difficult.

Film will certainly be around for quite a while.  But, readily available
off-the-shelf film that can be bought almost anywhere, as we know it?

Every year, manufacturers used to introduce their new industrial and graphic
arts film equipment at the PMA convention, and each one had at least one new
piece of film-based gear.  This year there was not one piece equipment that
used film at the show.   Even Kodak showed only digital photo based items.

Kodak, however, should at least be applauded for trying in their promotional
literature and on their web site www.kodak.com/go/story .

In the April 2001 issue of "millimeter" (for the motion picture and
television production industries), Kodak again had an ad that stated that "A
single frame of film contains over 12 million pixels of information".  This
is for 4 perf. 35mm motion picture film, the image area of which is less
than half that of the typical 35mm still camera.  A Stereo Realist images
two 5 perf. frames for each stereo pair, which by the same standard would
come out to roughly 2-1/2+ times this, or more than 30 million pixels...

JR


 

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