on 1/6/01 6:13 PM, Rob Studdert at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What I do know from experience is that when I have had the opportunity to
> shoot with a high end digital camera more than once I felt ill that I did not
> have film and a real camera with me, the one that got away, much like the
> feeling when using a disposable film camera to shoot a not-to-be-repeated
> event. :-)
Being a natural born gadget freak of Japanese descent that I am, people
around me are amazed to see that I am still holding out in jumping on this
mother of all gadgets, digital camera. :-)
One reason is that I feel like I may be walking into the phase where I may
be just helping mfrs to defray their R&D cost while they kept coming up
(read; experimenting) with a lot of new models. The model I buy today will
be obsolete in a couple of months much like the way PCs were.
Another reason is the one Rob just described above. I often borrow a Nikon
Coolpix950 from my friend but I seem to get much more satisfaction using my
film camera, although I am sure this will change at some point of time.
(BTW, I borrowed his camera to take photos of rather shiny metallic objects
at close range and the high contrast area was always washed out or tinted by
different colour. Photos at some distance, at least a few feet away, always
came out good even with flash).
Now let me ask a naive question to those knowledgeable folks in this list.
I see many pictures taken and printed by rather higher end devices and they
look awesome. But when it comes to to the comparison with film images, can
the digital image ever catch up ? Pixel count may ever increase, but unless
the camera is stationary in the studio, hooked up with a big host computer
to process the raw image, do these graphic compression not act as a
bottleneck? For example, JPEG which is often used for the image compression
for portable digital cameras, by definition, chips off colour information to
reduce the file size.
So how will this process affect on the image quality comparison with the
images captured on the film, or the digital image quality, even after the
compression, will some day exceed that of the filmed image?
Cheers,
Ken
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