Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You are dreaming. Digital is not the dominant media, whether people like it or not. And in terms of quality, that's multi-dimensional. It's MUCH easier to get exactly the right color balance with digital than film, and you don't lose image quality by placing filters over the lens (especially multiple filters for commercial-quality work in bad light). In terms of sharpness and resolution, for most purposes, digital is there. Large prints is the last frontier. On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 10:32 AM, Afterswift@aol.com wrote: > It's a present fact of life that pros are embracing digital, not > because of > its quality but because it's cost effective in time and is cheap and > easy to > edit in house. > By contrast, the general public may buy low cost digitals, but they > use film > P&S cameras consistently. So a 'bifurcation' of the market is > developing which > seems to indicate that digital may become a niche market. Everyone > will own a > digital camera -- as they did a Polaroid -- but film will remain > dominant. > The mfgs don't care as long as they do a lot of consumers business > during > Christmas. Just one man's opinion Eric Carlsbad, CA "Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. All you do is leave behind a lot of noisy baggage." - --- John and Alma Dunlap - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html