High ISO and image stabilization are allowing and will allow photographs to be
taken that couldn't have been taken otherwise. Higher resolution will also
likely find a place as well but, IMHO, not as important as sensitivity and
stabilization.
Chuck Norcutt
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Doug <doug9345@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [OM] Re: A film better than digital
> Sent: Oct 03 '08 02:33
>
>
> On Thursday, October 02, 2008 20:37, Moose wrote:
> > Wayne Harridge wrote:
> > > Interesting but...
> > >
> > > ...if you think about some of the greatest photographs:
> > >
> > > Which ones would be significantly improved by having double the film
> > > resolution ?
> >
> > With just a few words, you have, at least to me, raised a host of
> > complex issues, some of which are probably unresolvable.
>
> Moose I read what you wrote and I think you outline many of the issues very
> well.
>
> I think another question is which good photograph would become great if it
> was
> taken on film with double the film resolution. Or possibly which potentially
> great photograph wasn't taken because the photographer understood that it was
> beyond his technical limits do to film resolution. I don't have an answer to
> either question.
>
> I do think where improving photography technology does produce great images
> is
> were it puts cameras in places and peoples hands where they wouldn't have
> been before.
>
> A couple of examples I can think of are some of the various war time photos,
> almost all taken with 35mm cameras and there are or will be great photographs
> taken with a cell phone camera. It won't be great because of it's technical
> qualities, but because it captures something that has great emotional impact
> and it will spread around the globe like wildfire.
> -Doug
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