In a message dated 7/25/01 10:08:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Given the resolution, storage requirements, power consumption etc - when
would the digital photo technology equal film based?
Is it possible to make a rough assumption of how many times better the
technology needs to be? >>
"Digital" is alive and well in medium format (6 x 6) and 4 x 5 large format.
Both are hideously expensive to operate, a 1 pass digital back for a
Hasselblad going for $35,000 and up, 4 x 5 about $10,000 more. That's just
for the 1 pass back. Add the camera, lenses and HMI (studio grade) lighting
(you do want flicker free lighting, right?) at $15,000 a pair and you see why
small format digital, no matter how it pleases the Bride or ones family,
still is and will always produce the puny results one gets from small format
digital, with very little hope of catching the real digital photographers.
**But if all you want is an image, like the stuff you see on ebay, or what a
lot of people send out over the net? Or to put on greeting cards? Small
format digital will do.
+You need at least 14MB of data to get a "decent" 5 x 7 print. Any shot from
a $7.95 one-use film camera puts ~60~ MB of data on a 24 x 36 negative.
Who could afford a small format digital that could cram 60MB of data on a
CCD/CMOS just larger than an APS negative?
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