If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#281
|
|||
|
|||
high end DSLR buyers shafted? Anti-digital backlash
Q.G. de Bakker wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote: I seriously doubt that slides were invented to compensate for the limitations of print material. Why do you think they were invented, then? Good question. In the 1910s, in a review of Capstaff's Kodachrome (not to be confused with the much later Mannes and Godowski thing that was given the same name), the British Journal of Photography commented that Kodachrome slides "have nothing of the pallid unsaturated appearance which has been characteristic of most color transparancy processes. [...] In the past it has undoubtedly been difficult to make business in colour transparencies, however good". Apparently, slides were not (!!!) invented because 'they look a thousand times better than paper prints." I wouldn't be suprised if they were invented because somebody could. Sort of "Look what I've done!" The person that intially created the process having no real idea how they'd be used. Nick |
#282
|
|||
|
|||
high end DSLR buyers shafted? Anti-digital backlash
Gregory W Blank wrote:
In article , Stacey wrote: ???? I thought a hobby was a way of spending your free time in a way you enjoy. How and why would you put a cost on that? Like I should add up how much it costs me to go ride my bike? LOL!! I gues my mistake was believing I could have a meaningful conversation, After all I charge for my "hobby". Then it's not a hobby. If you enjoy your work that's great as I enjoy mine (it's not photography). A hobby isn't something you calculate what your time is worth while doing, it's a way to spend your -free- time in a way you enjoy. -- Stacey |
#283
|
|||
|
|||
high end DSLR buyers shafted? Anti-digital backlash
Mxsmanic wrote:
Stacey writes: And must stay in focus across the whole area of the film, meaning the film must be perfectly flat and the same distance from the scanning lens during the whole scan unless you refocus for each pixel? Same with the paper while printing. You can hold film quite flat, as drum scanners do. Very few of the digital ranters here use drum scans... You can also refocus for each pixel. Which no one does. The problem with this is you are assuming the only criteria for judging the output is lpmm of resolution. What other criteria are there that would be different between digital and optical prints? Tonality for one. -- Stacey |
#284
|
|||
|
|||
high end DSLR buyers shafted? Anti-digital backlash
Mxsmanic wrote:
I seriously doubt that slides were invented to compensate for the limitations of print material. Why do you think they were invented, then? Even today, the only real advantage of projected slides is that they look a thousand times better than paper prints. Slides were used for decades as the standard multimedia presentation for speakers. It's more you can show them to a crowd of people that made them popular. IMHO trying to print from a slide is a PITA compared to using negative film. -- Stacey |
#285
|
|||
|
|||
high end DSLR buyers shafted? Anti-digital backlash
Stacey writes:
Tonality for one. As I've already pointed out, the tonality of prints is so limited to begin with that everying upstream in the processing chain (scans, optical projection, or whatever) completely overshadows it. In other words, with prints being the weakest link, any limitations in scans would be invisible (although I'm not aware of any such limitations). -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Will digital photography ever stabilize? | Alfred Molon | Digital Photography | 37 | June 30th 04 08:11 PM |
New Leica digital back info.... | Barney | 35mm Photo Equipment | 19 | June 30th 04 12:45 AM |
Digital Imaging vs. (Digital and Film) Photography | Bob Monaghan | Medium Format Photography Equipment | 9 | June 19th 04 05:48 PM |
Which is better? digital cameras or older crappy cameras thatuse film? | Michael Weinstein, M.D. | In The Darkroom | 13 | January 24th 04 10:51 PM |