Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/08
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Take a look at this article on photo.net
http://www.photo.net/digital/cameras/choosing
They expain why the quality of film is the highest,
followed by scanned film (3 CCD one for each color)
and the last one digital cameras (only 1 CCD with
mixtuted colors) and 8 bits.
Very intesresting article.
Rafael
--- Martin Howard <mvhoward@mac.com> escribió: >
> I subscribe to Photo Techniques, the US magazine
> primarily for LF
> weenies, but also a great bogroom read for wannabees
> like myself
> (actually my real reason for subscribing to it is
> David Vestal's
> column). While seated upon the aforementioned
> facility this evening, I
> came across an article by Paul Schranz in the latest
> issue (Nov/Dec
> 02). He writes about "conventional" and digital
> photography, a sort of
> personal odyssey through technology and back. In
> this, we can find the
> following sentences:
>
> Film is still the best means of recording an image.
> The best scanners
> do
> not yet meet the richness of data that is available
> on film.
> Inevitably,
> that time will come, as will digital camera
> quality.
>
> I, for one, don't think that that time will ever
> come. Like most areas
> of technology, what drives development is economy.
> If there is little
> or no economic incentive of developing a digital
> sensor for cameras, or
> a scanner, that matches or surpasses chemical film,
> then it is unlikely
> that it will happen.
>
> Fine art photographers seem to be split in two
> communities: those who
> vow to continue with film, printing on fibre paper
> to archival
> standards, and those who dabble with digital images
> at some point in
> the process. (An interesting aside is a group who
> belong to the
> former, but still use computers to produce masks
> which are subsequently
> sandwiched with the original negative for [contact]
> printing.) The
> most fervent arguments about quality seem to be
> raged in this
> community. Is digital good enough? Can you tell
> the difference
> between a chemical print and an inkjet print?
>
> In reality, fine art photographers don't count worth
> a toss. They're
> about as important to the those that fund the
> digital photography
> development as the super-heavy-weight vinyl LP
> weenies are to the music
> industry.
>
> What matters are large volume, commercial
> photographers and the general
> public. I'd guess that the commercial photographers
> that count are (a)
> advertizing, (b) press. Both of these are
> characterized by a degree of
> ephemerality where convenience and "good enough" are
> more important
> than whether something is qualitatively the same as
> a archival,
> selenium toned, fibre print at 20x24" from an 8x10"
> T-MAX 100 negative
> observed through a 5x Schneider loupe. The same
> goes for the general
> public: good enough is good enough.
>
> What will happen is that digital (camera) technology
> will improve to
> the point where three things coincide: (a) tiered
> quality and pricing
> ("consumer", "prosumer", "professional"); (b)
> quality improvements
> until "good enough" (given the application area) has
> been reached; (c)
> ease-of-use issues, convenience, and infra-structure
> break above the
> cost-of-entry for new consumers.
>
> Once this happens, improvements will not be in the
> direction of the
> information capacity of the digital technology and
> this will probably
> happen well before digital devices come even close
> to (i.e., several
> orders-of-magnitude away from) capturing the amount
> of information that
> film does.
>
> And, just as you can still buy tube amps, and play
> new LPs on recently
> manufactured turntables, I suspect that film will be
> around for a long
> while yet. Existing in a somewhat marginal role,
> but still existing in
> parallel with digital imaging.
>
> M.
>
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