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Why digital cameras are no good
I feel qualified to speak to this because over the years I have had so
many people who were anxious to tell me why digital cameras were no good. The part that amuses me is that as digital cameras have been getting better the reasons given as to why they are no good change, often what was considered as a large issue when the digital camera was inferior to a film camera is now dismissed when the digital camera is better. As an example, when I bought my first digital camera memory cost LOTS of money and those of us shooting digital where very limited in how many photos we could shoot before needing to download our photos. At that time this was pointed out to be a large problem with digital cameras, but now I can shoot something like 1000 shots with just a few CF cards, this would be like 28 rolls of film, but the film people now seem to think that the number of shots you can take is not so important. Digital cameras needed more light then film camera at one point in time, this was seen as a large problem, but now that digital cameras can take good photos using about 1/8 th the amount of light that a film camera needs this is discounted as not all that important. Of course the one I have heard the most about is shutter lag, now that cameras like the 20D are here shutter lag seems not to be an issue, my 20D has shorter shutter lag then my film SLR and even if the film SLR could keep up it would use a full roll of film in about 1 second. Or there was the problem how will you get prints from your digital camera, now at Costco I can get prints cheaper from my digital camera then I can from my film camera. One by one what were problems for digital camera are now where digital camera shines. There is getting to be less and less now to complain about digital cameras, and so now I am beginning to see some rather amusing problems brought up, The cameras don't look good or they don't use film and so are not really doing photography or there is no craft in using a digital camera. I have even heard people complain that they miss the grain that film has. The fact that people find it necessary to try and make these kind of things into issue is an indication of just how good digital camera have gotten. Now there are people who find it necessary to compare digital cameras to 4 x 5 view cameras, right so just how many people are taken photos with view cameras? I live in Hawaii, this has got to be one of the most photographed areas in the world, so how many people have I seen using a view camera, zero, zip, none. I am sure they are out there but to try to find fault with digital cameras because they don't have the resolution of a 4 x 5 is just plain silly. The one thing I am certain of is that as the years go by and digit cameras continue to improve there will always be a few people who will manage to find fault with them. Just what they will find fault with in 5 or 10 years from now I am not sure, but it should be interesting. Scott |
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