Kostas, As for your first comment, it is true for digital AND film, too obvious to talk about. As for your second comment, you can always use non-digital media for archiving even if you capture it digitally first. Besides you can archive the corrected (Photoshopped) image. Cheers, Veli izzet -----Original Message----- From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of kpp@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 1:36 PM To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students Subject: Re: Is it there yet? i would like to make 2 commnets 1. the best digital camera does not worth a thing if you cannot compose a proper image 2. we live in a multimedia world...we will keep film in the two main formats, and digital and whatever comes next, all in the same time i just came from a discussion of music recording media... despite the cd imperium, i still use a high end tape recorder for archiving my shows, a minidisc for interviews and bootlegging and we recently installed a turntable in the studio for those ol'vinyl records. the same holds true to photographic media digital is easy to capture, and work with, and especially fast, and my concert photos have improved from the time i started scanning the negs and working them over in PS, but no one can move me away from film...and more importandly, the more time i spent in PS the less i want to get out of the room and shoot new frames....(maybe because i get a false sense of fullfilment from harvesting the PS abilities) and that is the important stuff...isn't it? enjoy all, kostas
