http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/d60/d60.shtml
Assuming that the megapixel count doubled, and the 6 megapixel was close
or better then the 35mm, how does that translate to 11 megapixels of the
new Canon being better then a 6x7, which is 4+ times the size of a 35mm
film?
From http://www.ephotozine.com/articles/viewarticle.cfm/id/4
"You have probably seen Laurence Parent’s work. He recently illustrated
the book TEXAS MOUNTAINS. His landscapes have appeared on calendars,
post cards, books, magazines and he has three more books coming out in
2002. Imagine Ansel Adams as a Texan with color film, and you can
visualize his work.
Parent has an Epson 1600 scanner, but that’s all the digital he’s
interested in for now. 4 x 5 film is what he uses for the fine detail of
his landscapes and 35mm is used for fast action photography. Archiving
is another aspect of his photography where he says film is supreme. 'I
think archiving and storage is going to be more of a problem,' he says.
Even though the image itself is composed of millions of 1’s and 0’s
rather than celluloid or paper, data storage has gone from a 5 1/4 inch
disc to a 3 1/2 inch, to a CD ROM in about a decade. He points out that
work done on a digital camera today may be unreadable by equipment in 50
years, but he can store about 10,000 prints in a file cabinet. Parent
said a 4' x 5' piece of film has the equivalent of 500 megs of info, so
digital has little appeal for him. ' I don’t know any landscape
photographer who uses digital to take the photo,' he said."
from http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,27045,00.asp
"To set the scale of detail, a digital camera's resolution is measured
according to the total number of lines it can resolve before they begin
to run together. A typical 3 megapixel digital camera has a resolving
power of about 1,000 lines over the entire image sensor. So, if the CCD
is 1/2" in size, that amounts to a total resolution of 2,000 lines per
inch. By contrast, the resolution of fine grain 35mm Kodachrome film is
about 2,200 lines--per millimeter! That's more than 50 times better raw
resolution than digital. Using this for comparison, film scientists
sometimes peg Kodachrome's digital equivalent as a 100 megabyte file. Of
course, larger film--2 1/4x 31/4, 4x5", etc.--will yield correspondingly
more data and overall resolution than a 35mm frame."
It's not I believe one over the other, but I'll start believing when all
the stuff said about it, agrees with each other..
Albert
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