Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/08

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Subject: [Leica] Back to Lisboa, new pictures
From: nathan.wajsman at planet.nl (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Tue Feb 8 20:03:52 2005
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Henning--

You have spoken for me very well. Projection is definitely the weakest 
link in the whole digital imaging chain. Even units costing several 
thousands (I have seen some at business meetings etc.) are clearly 
inferior to a good slide projector. That is why I am keeping my 
Pradovit, since I have a large slide collection.

Hopefully that part of the technology will evolve as well.

Nathan

Henning Wulff wrote:


> 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.

-- 
Nathan Wajsman
Almere, The Netherlands

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