Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/30

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Subject: RE: Re: [Leica] Digital is not photography (long)
From: austin@darkroom.com
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:44:22 -0800

> the state of the art in digital imaging is currently at
> about the development of a '32 Ford V-8...in its
> infancy.

I completely agree with that.

> Qualitatively it's still years behind silver.  I
> delivered a 16x20 print to a customer this afternoon,
> made from and 8x10 negative. None of these silly little
> desktops come even remotely close.  there's the
> equivalent of 2 gigabytes of information there.

That's not really a very informative statement.  Desktop digital
is hardly the state of the art of digital.  There are far better
digital cameras, scanners and printers out there that cost in
the tens of thousands of dollars, and easily compete, especially
when you are talking about a dinky little 16x20 print.  In fact,
a 16x20 chemical print can't even resolve all the information
on an 8x10 negative...

An 8x10 film has the equivelent of around (at 4000DPI) 32,000
x 40,000 pixels, or 1,280,000,000 bytes, depending on the lense
you used... unless you were talking color, then at 8 bits/color
that would be 3,840,000,000.  So, you're right in the ball part
when you say 2G.  Obviously, all this depends on the film, film
speed, development and exposure conditions.

All this aside, you haven't seen a well done Piezography print
I take it?







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