Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]G'day Ted, I'm not getting too hung up, but I suppose I'm deciding whether to trade in most of my film cameras and plough into digital (even if for the R8) or maybe to wait a few years and keep using film with a scanner. In reality, I probably need to have a scanner at least for a couple of years in order to get my "slide" collection onto discs etc, so perhaps there is no real argument, but I also suspect the film cameras will be worth nothing soon if not now. ;-) Cheers On 22/11/2004, at 5:04 PM, Ted Grant wrote: > Alastair Firkin asked: >>>> This brings me back to my nagging question; will today's good film >>>> scanners >> "match" a 10 mega pixel dedicated digital camera when you view >> moderately large images side by side? <<<< > > Alastair, > You are going to beat your brains out on this comparison print thing > simply because a print from a scanned neg and inkjet printer or > digital camera print and print from the same negative is like > comparing a modern day jet fighter aircraft with a Spitfire! > > They both are beautiful aircraft standing alone. However, put them > side by each and one looks more beautiful than the other in the eyes > of the viewer. However, different people will vote for one over the > other and visa versa, usually. But that doesn't mean one is better > than the other simply because this kind of film print and digital > print is without question, comparing apples and oranges! Period. > > And because I like both apples and oranges I've given up bothering > with discussions that get all hung-up on which is better and which > isn't, digital or film simply because man the only thing that counts > is............. does it look great to you? And if the answer is, "Yep > looks pretty damn good to me!" Then that's your answer! > > Other wise all the numbers become meaningless compared to what you > actually look at! Do you like it or do you not like it, that's all > that counts! > > Sure more mgp's is better under certain situations and under other > they make little difference. > ted > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Alastair