Nicholas Wright wrote:
>
> --- Isaac Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The biggest problem with this approach is that you
> > give up some of the
> > most positive features of digital photography...
> > instant viewing,
> > adjustable white balance, removable media, editing
> > in camera, and
> > instant wysiwyg for things like exposure
> > compensation. If you're willing
> > to put up with the inferior image quality of
> > digital, you should at
> > least get to use the positives of that medium!:-)
> >
> > Isaac
>
> First of all, I never said it was a perfect option;
> just a viable one. And for $700 if/when it is made for
> the z1p I will have one in my bag. :) But I really
> think that the limitations are really, imo, not really
> limitations. It's like the site says, "film, but
> digital."
Like I said, all the "quality" of digital with few of the positives...
For $700 you can get a 3 megapixel camera with LCD screen, manual
exposure (and you can see the effects of compensation immediately),
histograms, flash synch, removable media, and even a zoom. That camera
will kill any digital film equipped camera in all areas except long
lenses.
The main reasons that I prefer digital over
> film is; 1) Elimination of waste no chemicals, little
> packaging, reusability, etc; 2) Reduction of cost and
> time. This unit fulfills those needs. But, I think, it
> is a technology a little ahead of it's time. It does
> need work.
It is actually quite a bit behind the times. It has no features to
speak of, low resolution, requires external (proprietary) devices to
view/load/ download images, and is very expensive to boot. I'm afraid
that this project will be DOA. The only way that this could be viable is
if you could replace the entire camera back. This way, it might be able
to take advantage of some of the positives that digital photography
offers by incorporating an LCD screen. I used to think that the "digital
film" thing was a good idea until I used some real digital cameras.
Isaac
>
> Nick
>
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