Vesa Perala wrote:
>
> >A decades old Canon F1 (or whatever) is still capable of delivering
> > >images,
> >that are no worse than those taken by a EOS 1V or Nikon F5. Must be >magic
> >;-)
>
> I agree with you (most of the rest of the mail) but here we should
> maybe compare cameras *and* film since you can't change sensors in
> digital cameras. So, how about e.g. todays ISO400 slide film
> compared to 1970's ISO400 film?
>
I should have made my point a little more clear, actually I wanted to point
out exactly what you wrote. With traditional cameras, the sensor is the film.
You can use any film you want, as long as it is for the same format. With a
digital camera you are stuck with the sensor it has. You don't benefit by new,
better sensors. With film you do. And that's the "magic" involved. The F1 has
really become a better camera, if you measure camera quality by the quality
of the picture output. Of course such a modular system (which film and camera
really are) is much harder to do with a digital camera. But it may be not
impossible.
Anyway, this technology, if possible at all, is not available right now. Film
is the sensor and the storage at the same time, while in digital cameras these
are separate units - which is good - one of which is unfortunately a fixed
part of the camera and cannot be exchanged (by the user at the very least)
- which is bad.
> Thus with digital cameras the image quality *will* improve during
> the next couple years which makes them different from 35mm cameras,
> but I'm not sure if the improvement will be significan't for most
> of us.
With film, there will also be an improvement, although it may not be as
fast as in case of digital sensors. There has been a big improvement over
the last decades, so the technology is already closer to the limits than
it may be with digital. But there are limits to digital as well.
Now, back to EOS ;-) The existing digital EOS cameras all have a big
disadvantage (for me, it may be a benefit for others!) because of the
small sensor size which reduces the angle of view for any given lens,
rendering my wide angles useless. This is simply not acceptable for me.
Thomas Bantel
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