Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Welch wrote: > > Dirck is a good photographer, but he's way too invested in this idea to be > unbiased about it. He is wrong about pros not using film in a couple years, > there are going to be film users for many years. Even in the high end of > photojournalism. (Magazines and big papers). (first posting to this list - Hello everyone!) What is really happening is that folks are looking at the PC revolution and automatically assuming that Moore's Law will apply equally to CCD's. This has not yet happened, and I feel that it probably will not for some time. Basically the way that the CCD yields and pixel density increases does not exactly map to the way that CPU yields and transistor density increase. So the reasoning is fallacious. Of course there is also the question of memory bandwidth and power consumption, etc. Just because you have a CCD that can capture high res images does not mean that you have a good way to get that image into memory and then into permanent storage. ./patrick