I suspect that in the end digital will be the end of film. However, when
the end will be is another issue. Current digital cameras produce subpar
images compared to 35mm when enlarged sufficiently (and even worse performance
compread to large format cameras) but I assume that as technology improves you
will end up with digital cameras that have higher resolution than 35mm (and
even large format camera) in a 35mm package (no more lugging that 4x6 to get
better resolution) and you will also due away with the lost of sharpness from
basic film process.
However, I do agree with the original comment that too many choices for colour
balance is not good. It would be nice if you had default colour choices that
worked much like what you get from selecting different films. I guess choice
is good but it is too confusing -- and most of all there should be a 'match
nature' choice.
Well -- anyways a point contradicting the posters view.
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||From owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tue Mar 14 16:56:31 2000
||Joel Wilcox wrote:
||>When all there is is digital photography, I wonder whether we'll suffer
||>from palette impoverishment, since different films provide a different
||>emotional and interpretive palette in which to express one's vision. Like
||>dictating that all paintings will be in oils, not watercolors.
||This is quite possible. You will then be expected to use one of more of the
||15 brands of plug-in to alter the colour balance to your liking (only it
||will never actually alter it to your liking, only to a preset algorithm). In
||theory digital offers such scope, so many variations at the click of a
||mouse. But one does not necessarily want all these things in the pursuit of
||expressing one's vision. I wonder if the lacklustre performance of APS sales
||against 35mm is an indicator that long term takeup on digital cameras will
||not be the huge event the makers would like, and therefore we will be
||supplied with film for a long time.
||I don't have a problem with digital media, digital work on the PC etc., I
||just want to be able to choose.
||BTW even Linn records have stopped pressing vinyl and only do CDs.
||Simon E.
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