> Grain? Look at the development of fine grained films, and compare to the
> introduction of APS, with its disc film like neg size. And speed? Look, as
> John has pointed out, at the lenses in today's P&S cameras.
Some P&S tend to be getting better. The mju-2 (which is a great camera) has an
f2.8, which isn't bad for the size of the thing. Granted, the zoom things often
have really bad lenses, and you can often get the same zoom effect by taking
three paces forward (cos, let's face it, depth compression and DOF aren't issues
when using one of these things).
> This may fall in the be careful what you ask for catagory. We have all
> wanted fine grained, faster films. We now have them, and most of us, I'm
> sure, have used them. What we didn't expect, was the loss of their slow
> brothers. Guess we'll all be investing in ND filters.
A lot of the better fast films are very good now though, not to say this means
there is no need for 50ASA and 100ASA films. I don't think that all slow films
are going to be lost, especially in the black and white and colour slide market.
Some of the 400ASA films are almost as finely grained as some 100ASA now - and
as technology improves, they'll get better.
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