Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Digital photography is just another kind of film. Tri X, T-max. Plus X. Ektachrome. Kodacolor. Now we have CCD. It's just a way of capturing images. It does some things better than C-41 film and some things worse. Its early versions are expensive and grainy. The million-dollar NASA digital camera will be bested by $2500 semi-pro models within 5 years. Most of my life I have primarily done portraits, and it is very hard to get the kind of skin tones that portraits need on today's digital cameras. But in the electronics industry the push to the future is relentless. Something good will come. It's not here yet, but I can smell it. But there is no substitute for good lenses, tripods, and a good eye.