C.H.Ling wrote:
I just want to point out that, the digital image developed very fast,
just like the
> computer, speed and capacity has increased more than a hundred times in
> 20 years (with the same price level). Digital camera has just entered
> the consumer market for two to three years, so what will happen 5 to 10
> years later?
I'm addicted to film, but I concede C. H. Ling is probably right. The
improvements in films have been real, but they have crept up at an
arithmetric rate; digital progress has been geometric. For the time
being I and most others on this list will continue to expose film. When
I can get as good or better images using digital tools, I'll consider
switching over. Like Ken Norton, a digital back to let me use my Zuikos
is what I really want. This is the big hangup most serious
photographers have about going digital: the creative investment they
have in their lenses---a concern not shared by the snap-shooting masses.
(The digital revolution is not trickling down from the top, but is more
akin to a flood rising in the basement) I've heard the skeptics say
that current sensors only give high quality in large format digital
backs, but I don't care too much about current technology.....in a few
years or months it will be ancient history.
The real future of digital formats is closely linked to the Internet, I
think. Right now the jumble of file formats and compression technology
are baby steps towards a very fast, very high quality video and print
matrix that lies ahead, somewhere. It seems the hardware for this is
already in place. The area evolving real fast is storage. . . .the cost
is dropping like a safe out a window. Even if the longevity of optical
disks isn't great, the digital format lends itself well to rapid and
error-free duplication to future formats. I don't like everything about
digital imagery, but I am positive it will be the way most photographs
are made in the very near future.
Morgan Sparks
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