At 12:18 PM -0500 3/30/01, Michael Gardner wrote:
The current issue of Leica Fotografie magazine has a full test article of
the Gigabit film by Erwin Puts. Mr. Puts is a skilled and dedicated tester
of all things Leica and film. He has a web site.
If he has the Gigabit testing on his web site I'll post the URL.
The short answer is while the film appears to have some gain in resolution
over Tmax100 or Techpan, any real gains in results will be effectively
limited by shooting technique (camera vibration or focussing errors), the
quality of the shooting lenses, the quality of the enlarging lens and
technique (vibration and focussing of the enlarger). Another factor is that
the human eye is already limited in its ability to perceive fine resolution
and any gains made in superfine resolution would only be evident in very
large prints, like poster size or bigger.
Mike Gardner
This is interesting in the light of the film/digital wars. A high
quality image is no longer limited by film resolution but by other
factors. That would seem to spell the doom of film as soon as
digital does not have to equal ever improving film. It just needs to
get to the quality level that all the other factors completely mask
the difference with film. For mass produced snaps that has probably
already occurred.
The camera wars seem to be heading toward the model of the shaver
wars. You have a cheap blade shaver(film cameras) with a huge cost
in future blade and shaving cream purchases, or you have a very
expensive electric shaver(high resolution digital camera) which is
relatively self sufficient for it disposable life when it is traded
more for new features than the fact that it is worn out.
Winsor
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Long Beach, California, USA
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