[Leica] Back to Lisboa, new pictures

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

>Hi Nathan,
>
>Thank you for your comments, but I think that probably is no difference
>between a image you see on a computer, but I modestly think that quality is
>quite different if you project it on a big screen. The advantages you
>mention are definitively the great arguments, but for me they don't justify
>the digital. Of course economy is very important too, but I've never expend
>a lot of money in film, of course digital allows you to take more pictures,
>but for my way of use I've never take more, or much more pictures that I
>wanted or needed... Maybe I'll change my opinion in the future..., if yes,
>you will know it very fast, sure!
>
>Un cordial saludo
>Luis

Luis,

I won't try to speak for Nathan, but my experience has been that if 
you like projecting slides on a screen, digital has nothing to offer 
at present that comes close. That's not because the image quality 
doesn't measure up, but because the digital projectors don't measure 
up.

On the other hand, if you want to produce a print, especially colour, 
film has a hard time competing with something like the Canon 20D, let 
alone the 1Ds. This seems to hold with images up to about 16x20in.; 
above that well printed fine grain film seems to hold its own against 
digital. I'm talking here about 35mm based digital; medium and large 
format digital does very well indeed at the largest output sizes, and 
competes well at those sizes but at a price. At low light levels 
digital output from digital SLR's has it all over colour negative 
film.

The fact is that at present you can produce 8x10in colour prints with 
a sub-$1000US DSLR-lens combination that are noticeably superior in a 
technical sense than you can with a $5000US Leica camera-lens 
combination if you are shooting in poor lighting conditions. In good 
light, the difference goes away and becomes more a difference of 
interpretation than quality.
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