Just to continue the discussion with an example from my camera club (
www.tgpa.ca <http://www.tgpa.ca>), we often show entries to our internal
photo competitions at meetings. Two years ago our competitions were 100%
film, but now we're about 30% film and 70% digital. So, we now we start off
by showing the film entries by projecting slides, and then switch to the
digital projector (a decent one from Canon, but I don't know the model) for
the digital entries. Let me tell you, there is simply no comparison. The
detail and color of the projected slides is far superior to that of the
digital projector. Also, with slides, the color is perfectly predictable.
With the digital entries, there just does not seem to be a way to get the
projector to reproduce each entry in the manner expected by each of the
participants. And even when the digital projector is working optimally, it
still doesn't compare to a projected slide. This is being done in a dark
room that seats about 80 people.
Robert Swier
Toronto
On 10/16/05, Simon Worby <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> A while back I commented that there was no way adequately of projecting
> digital images, and that even the best projectors "downgraded" digital
> cameras from their native 5/8/whatever MP to less than 1MP.
>
> My comments that that was unacceptable was poo-poo'd on the basis that
> you wouldn't notice "at a distance". I disagreed at the time, and I
> disagree now. It may not matter much with a moving image (such as
> television) that the resolution is so low, but in my opinion it
> certainly does matter with still images. I have slides (film slides) in
> which I can see amazing detail when projected to 6' x 4', and text I can
> read that I cannot read when the slide is scanned in at 4,800 dpi.
>
> AP has done a review of some digital projectors. In short they agree
> with me. (If anyone really wants the full article, I'll scan it in.)
>
> So I reassert my point. If you want to project your images and do them
> any sort of justice in the process, then digital is simply, at this
> point in time, useless.
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon
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