That explains it
Look folks the day will come when digital images are going to match film for sharpness and other technical qualities BUT that's not why people shoot film. Similarly, sharpness and other such qualities are not why people paint with oil paints, or why people take up wet plate photography. Film photography is simply a separate medium of expression than digital, and so there's no more point in comparing film with digital than there is to compare oil painting with sculpture.
Has anything been established in the last 11 pages? Can anyone summarize in two sentences or less?
I believe that LL is really in tight with the manufacturers of phase and other digital products, and by going after 8x10 film as the premo capture device lots of lemmings will be able to justify spending big bucks on new equipment, and as a long term ploy the digital producers and LL win financially in some way....
I must add that I have no problem with this, but it is a marketing method.
I may be naive but these mb x mb yearly increase with phase and DSLrs is a long term plan to suck money over the long haul out of peoples pockets.
Not to mention the yearly improvements in Adobe products or inkjet technologys.
Just my opinion of course.
I also have no problem with Micheal Reichman making these claims and I am kind of envious of his skills, he really is good at what he does.
At a certain point the debate will be over, next we will see faster , cheaper and this will be spread over the next 10 years.
Cannon and Nikon, Hp and others are winning big and good on them.
Not at all true in practice, I'm afraid. Take landscape photography, the dominant genre here and on the LL board. The subject, the approach to the subject, the composition, the presentation--it is all essentially identical no matter whether you use film or digital. To non-technical viewers the results--not technical results but the exults flowing from aesthetic decisions--are indistinguishable.
For my part I find I can easily tell the difference between an oil painting and a sculpture.
--Darin
Has anything been established in the last 11 pages? Can anyone summarize in two sentences or less?
Markus has graciously accepted our request that he re-shoot the test, with some assistance in selecting equipment, shooting, and scanning, provided by forum members.
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