Rumor has it that Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) may have mentioned these words:
[Mach-2-Flyby camera snippage]
> > equivalent I think (4000 * 3000 or so). And I'm not 'upgrading' to a
> > digital camera if the resolution goes down... I put quality well above
> > convenience in use, even if few others do.
I'm with you WRT this way of thinking, Tony, but for those of us who don't
have darkrooms, the reproducibility of digital is quite nice... I was
taking pictures on Christmas day, printing 3 copies of each picture that
the family wanted on my QMS color laser printer (which don't look as good
as my Epson photo, but it's not set up currently) and they're also archived
on CD and in my safety deposit box.
I'll admit that they didn't look perfect [color laser != photo proofing
studio] , but if a fire hits my home, I still have the memories. I can't
say that WRT all of my pictures of Germany when I was there in '91. I'm
working on scanning all of my pictures, tho.
>There are uses for both. There are some situations appropriate for each.
>For example: low res, TEMPORARY pictures, for web or email can be done
>more conveniently with a digital. But I'm NOT about to get rid of my old
>35mm cameras and lenses, nor medium, nor large format cameras.
... And you'll have to pry my Canon T50 from my cold, dead hands, too. But
with the purchase of my new house, the ability to go in and archive
everything visually myself without needing 40 rolls of film, and be able to
take pictures during my renovation & archive to CD will probably justify
1/2 the cost of the camera.
With 5 Megapixels, 2 memory sticks & 2 batteries, I can archive a lot more
information in 1/10 the time by myself than watching Wal-Mart fsck up 1/2
my film - and yes, the point I've not seen on the Megapixel versus film
quality didn't take into account urine-quality developing. [We don't have a
decent film lab here - Wal-Mart, K-Mart or jump the bridge to Canada, which
gets expensive...] I've never seen better than 5 Megapixel photo quality
come from any roll of film of mine from Wal-mart. This is not a slam on the
film, or the camera...
That's allz I know...
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
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(circa 1997!) Why does Hershey's put nutritional information on
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