AG Schnozz wrote:
Sorry, the only one I hear these complaints from is you. Here's the 3MP
D30 vs a high quality Imacon 3200 dpi scan of a Provia shot. Both look
fine to me and pretty much equivalent. What small differences I see are
of the same type that I might relate to a different type of film.
<http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/d30/d30_vs_film.shtml>
I think your "positional" argument for film doesn't hold water. Things
on film are positioned no more accurately than the size of the film
grains which are actually pretty large. The analog nature of film
begins to break down right there.
Chuck Norcutt
> Now, what does this have to do with digital imaging? The
> greater the resolution (sampling rate) of the sensor, the
> greater the resolution, the more likely the details of the scene
> are kept in their real place. This *MIGHT* be one reason why
> film pictures retain a sense of dimensional-depth to them which
> digital images have been short of. You hear the complaint about
> how "flat" digital images are, or the comments about "the
> fishtank look".
>
> When comparing raw resolution, digital images--even from my E-1
> can match or exceed a 35mm scan. However, a 4000 DPI scan will
> show positional accuracy missing in the digital images.
>
> The 5D is, I believe, a turning-point camera in all this
> discussion, though. Not only does the resolution pretty-well
> match the best of 35mm film (and the lenses), but with the
> nearly non-existant AA filter, it is able to maintain
> positional-accuracy almost as well as film.
>
> Yet, when compared to the really high-end scanning backs and
> megapixel medium-format cameras, the 5D is still obviously
> lacking something--the intangible.
>
> AG
>
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