Brian writes: > ... how much do we have to pay for medium format > film, processing, and scanning before those > high-end digital systems become practical?
I'm not sure what you mean by practical. High-end digital is practical right now, for certain applications. However, I'm addicted to image quality, and so unless and until digital meets and surpasses film for MF images, I see no reason to look to digital. Additionally, at least right now, I'd have to go through quite a bit of 120 film to amortize the cost of a $26,000 digital back (that provides only one fourth the image quality). Speed is not an issue for me in either 35mm or MF, and I never burn through film in MF and only occasionally in 35mm, so the advantages of digital are of little significance to me, whereas the disadvantages (staggering initial cost, immediate obsolescence, the need for an expensive infrastructure, and lower image quality) are overwhelming. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
