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I know that film is still of better quality for professionals using medium format or large format because of the limitations of electronic capture and digital quantisation. However electronic capture, editing and printing is so much easier, more convenient and cheaper that human nature and our capitalist traditions will push everyone on to the new medium. Their will always be people who use ancient techniques, after all portrait painters are still around. It is a well known secret that much fine art is supported by photography. The very superior paintings made in the 15th century were made with the help of a lens or a pin hole camera.
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For a "snapper" digital is "better in every way."
Digital still has a hard time with many of the minute details which make film and hand printing beautiful. I've shot a d1x and d100 since they came out, along with the Hassleblad H1 system and leaf backs on Sinars. All of these formats are good for for certain things. Still, I don't think digital is a replacement for film or hand printing. Processes which are natural and left, at least some what, to the possibility of slight error are always going to have appeal. I can not tell you how many times, I've made a mistake processing or printing with traditional methods only to think---wow look at that, and then say to myself, "can I do it again." I seem to find, this occurs much less frequently with digital work, and when it does---it doesn't have near the same punch.
There are two kinds of fools: One says, "This is old therefore it is good." The other one says, "This is new therefore it is better." - William R. Inge
My humble regards,
Blake Pearson Birmingham, AL
On Jun 10, 2005, at 9:13 AM, Qkano wrote:
<< I gave up my LF dream until I'm done with my PhD, which is only a couple of weeks away now!!! I think I'll start with 5x7 and then keep moving ;)
Why bother?
The future is digital.
It's better in every way than film. The quality achievable with a high end digital SLR is already as good as LF (so they say) and you don't have to buy any film ...
Q
PS: 37 is the number raw files per GB of storage medium :o)
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