Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As a projected image film is still best. This is because there are no good digital projectors yet (IMHO) if you wish to view your pictures projected I would agree that film is still preferable to digital. For every other way of viewing it is not. Frank On 4 Nov, 2008, at 02:30, Jan Decher wrote: > Doug, Geoff, etc. > I think comparing DMR/M8 pictures to scanned K25 film is not a fair > comparison. I think what you have to compare is a well exposed K25 > slide projected with a top of the line Pradovit Projector next to a > projected digital image with an EQUALLY PRICED digital projector. > Maybe the several-grand (10 digit??) new Leica digital Projector can > impress next to the K25 slide but at some point (to me at least) > price performance becomes an issue too. > > Just the other day I looked at slides taken with my (now > unfortunately sold) Contax 645 and 120 Makro Planar on Fuji Provia > with my Rollei P11 dual format projector. No projected digital > image I have seen to date can beat that brilliance! Ther is a > reason multimedia slide projection enthusiasts are still going > strong in Germany. > Jan > > > Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 09:18:17 -0700 (GMT-07:00) > From: wildlightphoto@earthlink.net > Geoff Hopkinson wrote: >> Digital sensors are miles behind film in what aspects? >> I respectfully disagree regarding the M8. In my experience, >> images from my M8 are superior to anything I ever scanned from >> my film M's. That is to say in resolution, scalability, control, >> flexibility, convenience, productivity. >> Sorry but there it is. >> I suspect that users of the R8/DMR have some views on >> this also. > My > experience with the DMR is much like Geoff's with the M8. I compared > my last roll of K25 with the DMR at ISO400 and even neglecting the 4 > stops faster shutter speeds the DMR whomped K25: better image detail, > color quality, dynamic range. Plus the other stuff Geoff mentioned. > As it turned out I was glad I had no more K25. The biggest drawback > of > the DMR is that I can't put it on the SL. > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information