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Subject: [OM] Re: A film better than digital
From: <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:05:48 +0000
High ISO and image stabilization are allowing and will allow photographs to be 
taken that couldn't have been taken otherwise.  Higher resolution will also 
likely find a place as well but, IMHO, not as important as sensitivity and 
stabilization.

Chuck Norcutt


>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Doug <doug9345@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  Subject: [OM] Re: A film better than digital
>  Sent: Oct 03 '08 02:33
>  
>  
>  On Thursday, October 02, 2008 20:37, Moose wrote:
>  > Wayne Harridge wrote:
>  > > Interesting but...
>  > >
>  > > ...if you think about some of the greatest photographs:
>  > >
>  > > Which ones would be significantly improved by having double the film
>  > > resolution ?
>  >
>  > With just a few words, you have, at least to me, raised a host of
>  > complex issues, some of which are probably unresolvable.
>  
>  Moose I read what you wrote and I think you outline many of the issues very
>  well.
>  
>  I think another question is which good photograph would become great if it 
> was
>  taken on film with double the film resolution. Or possibly which potentially
>  great photograph wasn't taken because the photographer understood that it was
>  beyond his technical limits do to film resolution. I don't have an answer to
>  either question.
>  
>  I do think where improving photography technology does produce great images 
> is
>  were it puts cameras in places and peoples hands  where they wouldn't have
>  been before.
>  
>  A couple of examples I can think of are some of the various war time photos,
>  almost all taken with 35mm cameras and there are or will be great photographs
>  taken with a cell phone camera. It won't be great because of it's technical
>  qualities, but because it captures something that has great emotional impact
>  and it will spread around the globe like wildfire.
>  -Doug
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