Michael A. Covington wrote:
>
> "On the other hand most of these discussions assume that someday digital
> capture will equal today's film. That seems to assume that film has no
> where else to go in the meantime." - Winsor Crosby
>
> Touche' again! I remember how the race between transistors and vacuum
> tubes, in the 1960s, was complicated by the fact that the tubes started
> getting better. But at that point tubes were pushing fundamental technical
> limits and transistors weren't. With film vs. digital photography it's the
> other way around -- we know the limits of our digital materials better than
> those of film.
>
> Michael A. Covington / AI Center / The University of Georgia
> http://www.ai.uga.edu/~mc http://www.mindspring.com/~covington <><
We will never know the limits of digital technology, in the pass 20
years the films only improved very little (has the resolution improved
by two or three times?). But how about the computer and storage device?
C.H.Ling
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