A 4Kx4K CCD can replace 4x5 is a joke, it can only replace 35mm in
most application. The death of 4x5 will happen, but no one know how
long will it take. May be until the date you can pay $20 for a P&S
digital camera.
Ah! another thing come up in my mind, will people going to settle with
less quality in the future? They just need a clean (no grain) image
and don't require high resolution? Is 4x4K good enough? When there is
a print size and viewing ratio fixed, up to a certain point, more
pixel count is not necessary?
In rec.photo.digital some guys who claim to have lots of digital gears
and some even said they are professional photographers, they said the
picture from their D30 is better than 35mm only their 4x5 can beat it.
I'm sure this is not true, I have use Fuji S1, it is the same if not
better than the D30 in image quality, it is still far away from
traditional 35mm slides. Are they crazy? their eyes has problem? they
have never get good shots with traditional camera? they have very poor
photo labs around them? They seems live at another world that people
are very easy satisfied.
The better quality LD was die here in Hong Kong, every family has tens
or hundreds of VCDs at home, the quality of VCD is poor. DVD is also
popular but the software is not much, if there were not so many copy
software, no one will interested on DVD. The film manufacturer
introduced the APS film system, which is obviously much poorer than
35mm. Some newer one hour machine are poorer than before, especially
the new Fuji machine (not the digital one), grainy and poor color. I
heard processing speed and cost is the major reason for that.
What will be happen in the future?
C.H.Ling
Tom Scales wrote:
>
> While I agree with some of their points, I find it hard to seriously respect
> a site telling me film is dead and digitial is king when their address is
> digitaljournalist.
>
> A bit self-serving.
>
> Tom
>
> From: "Garry Lewis" <glewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > Well it is offical. The trumpeting of the demise of film as
> > we love it. Not only is 35mm dead, but the article also
> > speculates the impending execution of 4x5.
> >
> > yours remembering the 1930's B&W death prediction,
> >
> > Garry D. Lewis
> >
> > http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0101/editorial.htm
> > --
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