Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] digital in low light
From: Daniel Ridings <daniel.ridings@muspro.uio.no>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 08:40:11 +0100 (MET)
References: <152.29b08df6.2d4d03bc@aol.com> <00cd01c3e84d$f159b5e0$388a8418@symkeehx5nw8g8> <401C561E.4020704@wanadoo.nl> <11931990-5464-11D8-89A9-0050E42E6E0B@shaw.ca> <1075607857.18186.47.camel@creo_pc3> <401D1620.5030606@osheaven.net> <EBDBB269-54D1-11D8-8FF8-000A958F513A@jphotog.com> <401DFA7C.5020205@osheaven.net> <093E50AF-558F-11D8-8FF8-000A958F513A@jphotog.com> <401F44EB.3040307@osheaven.net>

This like comparing apples and oranges. I can show you hundreds of
pictures where digital or 35mm film will leave 4x5 in it's tracks
(literally) simply because I can take either one of them places you can't
or won't be taking a 4x5.

Who said the issue is image quality? For me the issue is images period.
There's a reason newspapers quit using 4x5 in their work.

Not toys: images. A lot of people have toys and don't make images and they
wouldn't do it no matter what black-box and glass apparatus they have.

Daniel


On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, sam wrote:

> Are you suggesting that had he used the lastest Canon digital it would
> have smoked the 4x5? I believe the point he was making was that for a
> few hundred dollars one could get unsurpassed image quality. This whole
> digital thing has been framed in relation to 35mm film cameras. Why? If
> the issue is image quality why would one not go medium format? Or large
> format? The issue is not about image quality and never was. The issure
> is about toys.
>
> Sam S
>
>
> Eric Welch wrote:
>
> > Well, duh. Could it be that the latter site is matching a 4x5 camera
> > against an ancient (by digital standards) Nikon D100 that has CCD (and
> > thus more noise at high speeds) than the CMOS chips Canons have?
> >
> > On the other site, I didn't see any mention of a digital vs film debate.
> >
> > Eric
> > Carlsbad, CA
> >
>
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