Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 13/4/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] discumbobulated:
>>Nah. The experienced digital guys would just shoot thousands of pictures >>using their own memory cards, edit out their best shots on their laptops >>and transfer the best three onto the card that they would turn in for >>the contest. This would put less-well-equipped photographers at a huge >>disadvantage. > >But in the current contest, doesn't an SLR camera with 15mm, 24mm, and >200mm lenses have an advantage over a P and S shooter? Yet the P and S >shooter could well win a prize. The disparity is vastly greater with digital, especially with regards to having the ability to take hundreds of shots and cherry pick the best. But the image quality issue is real, too. This is part of the major sea change that digital has caused. In the past, someone with a K1000 and 50mm f/2.0 could, in many situations, get exactly the same final image quality as someone with an EOS 1v and some expensive "L" glass. As long as you're set on a 24 x 36 film format your main determinant of image quality (especially in tripod-mounted landscape shots) is the lens. This has changed forever with digital because the camera *does* affect image quality. The disparity between "APS" format digital and full-frame is almost as great as between 35mm film and 645 (it's *slightly* less, a 1:2.3 ratio rather than 1:2.7). Fortunately this isn't going to be a big deal at GFM where the winners are only printed at 8 x 12 inches. Oh, but since the winners are made into 8 x 12 prints for display at GFM, the judges are going to need to see something quite a bit larger than a 600 x 800 pixel file, aren't they? Damn. There's another complication! -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
