Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's not the camera itself that is keeping me away from a digital camera but the actual use and sorting of the resulting images. I'm not talking about the price of the memory cards or CDs, but rather the use of digital images. Here's what I mean: Take 36 film slides. Find the 10 that you like best. Look more closely at these 10. Pass these 10 to wife/client/assisant for a second opinion. Find the 4 best that are worth printing. On a light box with loupe this will take about 5 minutes. With 36 digital images, especially if they are of comparable resolution to a 35mm image, this same exercise will take a long, long time. Why bother with a digital camera? Don't get me wrong, I thik digital output of film images after scanning is going to replace silver within a short period. But a really useful digital camera will require mega-pixel resolution as well as a huge advance in computing speed and a correspondingly huge drop in price. Jonathan Lee - -----Original Message----- From: Jeff S [mailto:4season@boulder.net] Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 9:42 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica]Digital Photography(slightly OT) But it's not the image quality (for casual use at small print sizes) that keeps me away from most of today's digital cameras, but the slow speed, sometimes terrible ergonomics, high power demands and cost of the storage cards. I think even a 1-megapixel camera, if nicely laid out by a photographer (proper switches and dials, not those multimode pushbuttons that always return to default settings) would be a good addition to one's camera bag. But for now, it seems that you can save a high-res image to film far faster than to flash RAM, and film's storage capacity still looks really good. Jeff Andrew S Jordan wrote: > > Philips CCD rivals 35-mm quality > By Peter Clarke, EE Times > Dec 9, 1999 (9:04 AM) > URL: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19991209S0012 > > WASHINGTON - Digital still cameras could rival the image quality of 35-mm > film photography within a couple of years due to a charge coupled device [snip] - -- Jeff Somewhere in Boulder, Colorado