Hello Robert and all, Good point about the max shutter-open duration. While I have not experimented with it yet, my Coolpix 5000 does have a max of about 5 minutes. Still too short for many applications, but plenty for others.
Speaking of what the future holds for film, I actually wish we could go to the past instead. To the days when Ansel Adams and his buddies had the super-thick emulsion films that gave such amazing tonal ranges. Oh, well. Ansel was never able to shoot 40 frame bursts at 1/4000 of a second either. Cheers, Martin On 3/13/02 1:33 PM, "Matson, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Martin and List, > > There is another issue in the debate between commercial digital > and film cameras. There is a maximum exposure duration for > most commercial digital cameras (usually less than 30 seconds), > making them completely unsuitable for astrophotography. Yes, > you can buy CCD arrays specifically for astrophotography work, > but if you want to record wide field-of-view images (e.g. > during a meteor shower), an SLR film camera is really the > only way to go. > > And while digital camera resolution is steadily improving and > approaching that of today's film, photographic emulsion technology > is ALSO rapidly improving and thus will continue to be preferred > by most professional photographers for the foreseable future. > And even if/when the day comes that CCD resolution matches that > of the best film, there will still be purists that prefer analog > over digital (just as there are audiophiles today that prefer > vinyl records to CD's). > > On a side note, I wonder how expensive digital cameras would > be today if it weren't for the existence of eBay? Think price, > supply and demand... --Rob ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
