Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I completely agree with your experiences and conclusions though I do think you should take your favourite negs down to your local scanner store. Get a few 4000 dpi TIFFs and see if that helps. Practically I think that digital has arrived for 35mm quality. The new, and later even newer, Cankons are putting out file sizes that are more than good enough. Undoubtedly digital is going to replace film for most professional applications. Having said all that, film has a good deal of life left in it. For the typical family, a film camera will be much less expensive to purchase and operate and give better quality than any of the digital options. A hundred or so will buy you a P&S with a single focal length lens which will give excellent results. You can get the film processed inexpensively and the resulting prints and negs will be around for a long time. Film is easy to transport and resistant to rough handling and temperature extremes. Pretty tough to beat. I know of two people who lost all their vacation pictures due to something f***ing up (their words not mine) with their digital camera/flash cards. Next time they will bring a film camera... John Collier PS: Quality, quality, we don't need no stinking quality! (Still using ultra high res Tri-X) On Wednesday, September 25, 2002, at 01:40 AM, Red Dawn wrote: > sorry if this is another digital thread again......but it's a burning > question inside me......so pls hear me out :) - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html