Mark Blackwell
writes:
: I really never understood the one is better than the other debate. They are two different tools each with advantages and disadvantages. Ask a carpenter which is better a hammer or a saw? Both do different things.
nicely put
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: What's best is what you need to meet your needs or in the case of a pro the needs of their client.
a solid point.
Much of commercial output ends up digitized at some point in the process toward seeing the final image in a magazine, book, newspaper, TV ad, etc etc - for this alone, starting the image making process as a digital image has some real advantages.
Before digital cameras were cheap enough, I shot my ebay sale images on film and scanned them - what a pain!
Before digital I shot magazine images on film and then had fights with the graphics guys who wanted to flatbed scan prints rather than accept a scanned film image ('it wouldn't open' / 'I can't use that file format' / 'I get better images with my Plustek flatbed' :P )
shooting for these guys is a breeze now, all I have to cope with is the dpi (X x Y) issue ;)
karl
