William, I am very happy with the performance of film in 4x5 and larger formats. Grain and other defects become quite small. I've been producing photographs for exhibition and other use for close on 42 years now, and I'm quite happy to use film where it's appropriate. My current work does not require, would be constrained, by LF film and even MF film.
35mm film, on the other hand, is what digital cameras in this discussion are being compared against, and most significantly the digital cameras being discussed are Pentax DSLRs. A digital camera of this calibre with a good lens and sufficient resolution does a better job of making quality images for pictorial purposes ... It does not transfer defects of significance to the image and is easier to scale to large sizes (A3/A3 Super defining my upper limit for 35mm exhibition grade prints from film), it does not impart a look to the images that I have to work with or around. I can render whatever the recorded image might be with whatever look I feel is appropriate to the expression I seek, and I can choose the rendering flexibly, after the point of exposure. It's lovely to be accused of being a troll and an "Antonio", whomsoever or whatsoever that might be. I really don't care, however, so you might as well save the invective for other souls. > At the moment, all we have is: > "There is no "digital look". A photograph recorded with a > digital camera looks as it ought to, as a capture of light without > defects intrduced by the capture medium." The first sentence I stand by. Digital recording, in and of themselves, do not have a specific look, unless you want to consider the lack of transferred film rendering defects as a "look"... As another list member said, the images a digital camera makes are neutral and very adaptable to a wide variety of rendering techniques. The second sentence is being quoted out of the context of the rest of the discussion and has assumptions embedded in it from the discussion. Of course digital cameras are not perfect, that goes without saying, and a proof could be made that no recording device can produce a 100% perfect recording of an original subject. Such a device would be a replicating device, not a recording device. Godfrey __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
