Hello Lon, I basically agree with what you are saying. The issue to me is not digital vs film but serious SLR vs Point & Shoot. Go get a (comparatively) crappy film P&S and compare that to your SLR's - same thing. Or compare a 67 to your 35mm SLRs.
Basically, I am saying that your digital P&S is just that - a P&S. If your expectation is set to what the camera can do, then you will not be disappointed. So yes, we are basically agreeing - that SLR's are way better than P&S for getting good images. The medium really doesn't matter here. When I just had the 67's, MZ-S and a Nikon Coolpix 990 (P&S), I almost never used the digital because I don't use P&S very often. When I got a digital SLR, then things started to change, because the tools were more equivalent. -- Best regards, Bruce Monday, March 27, 2006, 5:49:53 AM, you wrote: LW> Interesting post, that. My only SLRs are still film and likely to LW> remain that way. I'm still playing with a newly acquired Optio, having LW> just "bailed in". Anyone who thinks a fairly new digi P&S is simple LW> just doesn't understand things. With a film camera, I take a different LW> approach; this I can see already. Each film shot, the way I do it, LW> should be a potential "keeper". Never mind the batting average; that's LW> what I want to feel most of the time when pressing the most important LW> button: the shutter button. LW> I've shot a few hundred shots with the Optio, have sent a few to the LW> computer (mostly to judge noise vs ISO, sharpness, etc.) and have LW> printed NONE shared NONE and have been satisfied with NONE (although LW> this last NONE is not quite true - the shots so far are insipid "let's LW> learn what it can do" snaps. LW> Maybe that "cost per shot" of film really helps, maybe I'm too used to LW> it and to old to change, or maybe I don't understand digital yet. LW> If you wanna go back to film and enlarger, you certainly have my LW> blessings, although that may be a curse. grin. LW> -Lon LW> Kevin Waterson wrote, in part: >> ... I have decided not to play the digital game and instead >> spend my time on furthering the art of photography. Whilst film is still >> available I can use that, perhaps I will pick up an 8x10 or 4x5 and go >> back to the good ol' days of coating my own plates (provided the chemicals >> used are not classified as WMDs and I am arrested as a terrorist)....
