Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Viewfinder magazine - great story by Tom A on Nikon and Leica R...
From: Eric Welch <eric@jphotog.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:18:45 -0700

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

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