Unfortunately, as costs rise, people are less and less willing to pay for
"quality." Artistic Photography is endangered by increasing consumerism (buy
and throw away mentality), lack of interest in perfection for its own sake.
the new Fuji machine you talk about is probably a sign that manufacturers
see less people willing to pay for the cost of too much quality.
Regards
Titoy
-----Original Message-----
From: C.H.Ling <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] film death watch
>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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