On Mon, 23 May 2005, Graeme Gill wrote:
This is certainly the case at the moment for popular imaging sensors, but who knows how far the technology is going to go ?
Regardless of dynamic range capabilities, digital cameras still have a major shortcoming in that they require a huge amount of data storage. As described by the white paper at "http://www.stwo-corp.com/HD%20RGB%20and%202K%20data.pdf";, existing compression mechanisms are not suitable for the big screen.
I have seen a 4K digital camera for rent which requires 400MB/second storage capability in order to store a "raw" Bayer format, or 1200MB/second for the common RGB DPX format.
This means that we will continue to see significant gains in still-photo capture quality, but without major breakthroughs in compression and/or storage capacity, film will be with us for a long time. I can't imagine crawling through the Indian jungle with the objective of capturing the King Cobra on film while dragging along the trailer required to handle the storage.
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