Robin Bowes;582000 Wrote: > On 11/10/10 01:29, magiccarpetride wrote: > > > > Photography is meant to be enjoyed by people, not blown up to a very > > large size and then analyzed. Such experiment is at best geeky and > thus > > useless. > > The use-case for the experiment was for large posters. It was not a > pointless "geeky" experiment. > > > You can compare for yourself. Take a fancy digital camera, the > fanciest > > one there is (let's say something with 20,000+ pixels that retails > for > > $10,000.00+). Go to a park, preferably on a late sunny > > afternoon/evening, and find a spot where the sun rays are shining > > through leafy trees. Face the sunny rays so that your eyes squint, > and > > take a snapshot with the digital camera, and then from the same spot > > take a snapshot with a film camera. > > > > Compare the prints -- you'll see that film is way superior in > retaining > > the extremes between bright light and shadows. Digital cannot come > even > > close at handling such heavy and demanding contrast. Thus digital is > > clearly inferior to film. > > > > Similar reasoning goes for digital sound vs analog. > > Except that... well, as opaqueice has already suggested your > understanding of these things is wrong on so many levels, and I can't > be > bothered to educate you. > > You may well enjoy your Caiman DAC, but it sure as hell ain't for the > reasons you're claiming! > > R. > -- > "Feed that ego and you starve the soul" - Colonel J.D. Wilkes > http://www.theshackshakers.com/
It is a delight to return to this forum and digest the common sense pearls of wisdom from Robin, opaqueice, snarly dwarf and Phil. I'll get my popcorn and continue to read :-) -- tomjtx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tomjtx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7449 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82520 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
