[Leica] Digital vs film ..just END IT!

["Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>]

Jim,

I think you feel you have to be right all the time.  Others have opinions
too that should be respected.  Everybody has an opinion, not just you!! 

When you digitize an image, you now compare digital to digital.  

I know travel photographers who are using digital equipment so they can
transmit the files back to their company when they are overseas to get a
jump on things.  Same for wedding photographers, yes the equipment is clumsy
(right now) but I can show all the images taken at a wedding instantly and
garner the added revenue from those attending the recipients who noramlly
would not see the photos using conventional film.  These are benefits!  If I
used the MegaVision S2, and enlarged the image to say 30 x 30, it looks
better than a negative enlarged it to 30 x 30 for the simple fact I can
tweak it in Photoshop to produce a better (subjectively speaking) print.
You can quote all the elementary mathematics you like about resolution to
impress this group, and stuff about drum scanners, but so what!
Its the end result is what counts.

Peter K

- -----Original Message-----
From: Jim Brick [mailto:jimbrick@photoaccess.com]
Sent: Monday, February 01, 1999 5:36 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] RE: digital vs film ...help


I give up!  Just read the following and it says it all!

>Yes, you can get better resolution with film and a drum
>scanner, but hey, isn't that digital technology too!!??  Why are you
>comparing digital to digital?  I was comparing film to digital.
>
>Peter K.

Jim

PS... I hope the most of you enjoy my comments, from the inside, on digital
imaging. I try to explain it without getting bogged down in details. Most
numbers are approximations, but close. The digital system equivalent of
film systems is indeed a long way off. Digital totes a lot of baggage. It
takes a hellova lot of 1's and 0's to equal film. And then you have to put
it somewhere. It will require a breakthrough (we are working as hard as we
can) in technology to close the film/digital gap. I work deep in the bowels
of digital photo electronics. But I photograph with Leica M and R, and 4x5
Linhof. I own a Nikon CP900 digital. I think the batteries died from
non-use.

Jim again