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Subject: Re: [Leica] Film vs Digital
From: "Christopher Williams" <leicachris@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 22:45:08 -0500
References: <BAY1-F115LbaENFGcMd00003bf8@hotmail.com>

Now you can get a 36exp roll of film scanned at a 25mb file per frame and
prints at the same time. Sure, it's not "instant" like digital, but it can
be a next day service. That's even better than digital IMHO. I'm not a news
or sports photographer, I'll stick with film.


Chris
New Orleans

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Olson"
Subject: [Leica] Film vs Digital


>
> I find it interesting to see to see the doom sayers, professing the death
of
> film and a wet darkroom. Hey to all neysayers, Fuji, Kodak, Agfa continue
to
> speend big $$$ on film development. Kodak killed off their K-25
> professional, because of the improved quality of 50-100 and yes 200 ISO
> chrome film. Fuji is constantly tweaking their negative and positive
lines.
> In the area of B&W look what Kodak did to TriX. Ilford isn't sleeping and
> neither is Fuji or Agfa.
> Granted in the US, digital is happening because of the hype of ease and
> instant gratification. I saw a recent survey by PC Magazine (Ithink) that
> said only 1 in 5 Americans uses the internet at home. Think about that
stat
> and the implication as it applies to digital. Digital and computers & the
> net go hand in hand. Someone pointed out in an earlier digest that most of
> the rest of the world, film is king. In the US we have a tendancy to feel
> that the rest of the world is just like us. It ain't. Digital in Europe is
> still very small segment. Got that from both English and French photo
mags.
> Digital is great for news and other media where you have time constrants,
> deadlines to meet and competion to beat.
> As for me, film has been great for the past 40 + years. If I want to
enhance
> a chrome, I scan it and enhance (never manipulate). The pleasure I obtain
> from openning a box of chromes, 35mm or 120mm and viewing them on a
> lightbox, is far more satisfying then digital offers me.
> On a day off.    Dave



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