karl shah-jenner <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Titrisol" > : The future maybe digital, but the quality is not there yet. > > > I'm no longer teaching or working as a photo tech, but prior to my > departure from the college I found myself quite despondent at the rapid > assimilation of digital to the exclusion of everything else. Half frame > cameras in preference to medium or large format? > > groan > > the argument was always the same - resolution. but always on digital's > terms. Never a comparison to 25 asa films or tech pan - always the > 'consumer grade 400 ASA film scanned by medium end scanners' V the highest > quality settings on the digital. Never the 'look' of the image, always > that golden resolution issue. I think it's the look of the images that's driving the run to digital, actually. It's *so much* cleaner and smoother than film for most uses. > Any digicam produced image printed up and set beside a film based/RA > image and examined under a magnifying glass for a direct comparison > of real resolution and almost invariably film would win, but no one > wanted to explore the concept of real resolution, just the fact that > students could tinker blindly with an image proved magnetic enough > to draw the majority away from film into the playground of digital. The magnifying glass is cheating; that's not a "normal" use of a print. But other than that, fine, do that. You'll find most people prefer the look of the digital image. Because resolution, as you say, isn't the be-all and end-all of a photograph; that's precisely correct. I haven't shot a roll of film yet this year, but I did shoot about a dozen last year. Having said that -- I have no quarrel with people who choose to shoot film, especially in medium and large formats. I'm essentially a 35mm photographer, though I own medium format and large format equipment and have used it some now and then. My experience of comparing digital and film really only applies to 35mm, because my range of equipment and technique with the larger formats isn't good enough to take seriously as a benchmark. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
