Re: where are you ? and digital vs film

[Paul Stenquist]

Former teacher,  an advertising writer fpr the last 20  years. I shoot 
for magazines and stock. I'm still shooting film, because my clients 
need 40 meg files. Much of my work is with Pentax 6x7, some with LX and 
MX 135. Currently my walkaround fun camera is a Leica iiif RD. I will 
go digital when I can get 10 megapixels for less than $500. I figure 
about 18 months.
Paul Stenquist
On Thursday, November 27, 2003, at 01:22 PM, Larry Hodgson wrote:

Hi all:

One of the neat things that we did on another unrelated discussion 
group was
give a little bio on who we are,
what we do, and where we live. I would like to know something about 
this
group so I will start it:

I live in Prescott Arziona USA. This is beautiful desert and canyon 
country.
I'm 63 years old and have been
doing landscape photography for 40 years. I started out with a 
Spotmatic. I
recently got an *ist D and I love it.
In between I went the 4x5 route and still have that equipment, but most
likely I will never go back. I am a
Land Surveyor by trade.

On the subject of film resolution vs digital resolution I can get 
whatever
digital resolution I need simply by using a longer lens, taking
overlapping images of my landscapes and stitching them together using
stitching software to make whatever size image I need. Their is also
Genuine Fractals software that will enlarge this even more. I have a 
24"x36"
image hanging in my office that almost looks like it's from 4x5.
It was actually taken with a Nikon Coolpix 5700. Should be even
better with my "*ist D".

Now I know that some landscapes are the perfect subject for this 
technique
and
that action shots etc. would not work.
But it works well for me.

Your bio and thoughts on this?

Thanks,
Larry