Sabineellen wrote:
Hi. While i may not have specific answers to your question, I just want to say
that I don't really think the numbers matter much in practical use. If it looks
good enough then it's good enough.
In a way, yes, but how do you get something to look at? Unless you want
to actually buy a camera just to test for yourself, it's quite hard. I
mean, the people who sell the things will of course show you an example
or two, but that's not really enough (and example pictures of course
tend to be designed specifically not to reveal any weaknesses.) Example
images viewed in a web browser definitely don't tell you antything, and
it's also quite difficult to draw conlusions from more or less
subjective descriptions of the results. Much better with clear figures,
then.

And there's also a question of whether it looks *right* (based on
whatever you take a photo of), which is not the same thing as looking good.

For many applications, digital is more than adequate. The speed and
convenience, and the sheer quantity of images you can shoot with a digital
camera overcomes many of the quality issues some may have with it.

Quite. But I also think that a lot of people buy digital cams because
they are the fashion now, and because, well, because they are digital...


Here's a recent thread with links to an example where even a 5mp digital was
adequate enough for publication and winning photojournalism awards.

http://tinyurl.com/4jvdt

Film has its advantages too. It seems though there there is a consensus that
the 11mp Canon 1Ds is better than 35mm drum-scanned film, which is in turn
better than 6mp SLR, so 35mm film is somewhere in that range.
Of course, I don't really want it on digital form, anyway; a good print
is the ultimate goal - so maybe the prints are what should be compared.
Call me old-fashioned, but I really don't see the support for direct
image transfer to the PC as that much of an argument. Why would I want
to do that? Sounds like a bit of a hassle to me... Process the image?
Again, more hassle. And view my pictures on the PC screen? Now,
really... My film I can hand over to other people and let them do all
the work. What could be more convenient than that? (But I can of course
do the same thing with a digital camera's storage media these days.)

What I do see as an advantage, though, is the fact that you can preview
the images (although in a way I like the magic associated with film of
not knowing exactly how it turns out) and delete the ones you don't
like, and perhaps also that you can print the images directly without
ever having to let them enter your PC...