Στις 30/12/2020 6:28 μ.μ., ο/η Ken Hart Î*γÏ�αψε:
On 12/29/20 10:34 AM, Dimitris Tzortzakakis wrote:
although that ship has long sailed, here goes: well, analogue film had
resolving power, which was measured in lines/mm and digital, of
course, has resolution (in megapixels). apples and oranges. film was
not made to be scanned digitally, but to be enlarged optically. After
2 years of film , I had foorgotten how good it was, after almost 20
years of digital photography. With a hand held flash shot, in Agfapan
APX 400, regular grain, not T-grain I made a succesful enlargement in
30 X 40, only the focus of the enlarger was a bit tricky as I had to
open the diaphgram to get an acceptable exposure (30 secs @ F 5.6).

Welcome back to the "dark side". (Dark side = darkroom)

I respectfully disagree with "apples and oranges". I say it's more like
two different types of apples. Also, megapixels doesn't directly give
resolution, but it's a good indicator of it.

This summer, I had the opportunity to move back to my old home town. I
looked at about a dozen houses, but the one I bought had a perfect*
space for a darkroom. Once I saw that space, I knew I had to have that
house!

* It seemed perfect. On later inspection, I found that I had to remove
door frames from two doors to get my color processor in the darkroom!
Removing and re-installing door frames is not that difficult.

you're right, I read that film had more resolving power than most usual
lenses (I suppose that includes primes because that's a '77 book, before
zooms became so widespread). In Kozani I had a flat that had the perfect
space for a darkroom, back at the day. I was also doing colour back
then. Kozani was in the main lignite mining area of Greece, 75% of
Greece's electrical energy was generated there. I believe that today's
"cameras" are not cameras anymore, but computers with lenses, and that's
not "photography", but computerography! In Kozani there was a little
Kodak shop, run by a girl called Mary, that had everything!From bulk
film, to Technical pan, to infrared, to blank tapes, everything. Now
it's gone, alas. Likewise here, In Iraklion-Crete, we used to have also
a little shop, called Vretzos, now also gone. Everything must be
back-ordered from Athens or even from Germany.