"Nenad Djurdjevic" writes:
>I think we all agree that print film will soon go the way of vinyl records
as digital
>prints are now 'photo quality'. The average snap-shooter will be more than
happy to
>make the change especially as they will immediately be able to view and
manipulate
>their photos on a computer. Slide film, on the other hand, will hang in
there a
>little longer. As far as I know digital technology has no answer to
slides. Does
>anyone know if digital technology can produce high resolution slides that
can be
>projected? (and I don't mean via one of those projection TV systems).
>Slides are my main source of pleasure in photography and a pleasure I
reserve for
>travel and adventure photography. Then when I'm home I can re-live and
share the
>experience with others. In principle I guess I would be happy to change to
digital
>if: 1) I could use my old lenses and attachments and 2) digital slides of
equal
>quality became available.
It is possible to have 35mm slides made from digital images (business
presentations to large audiences used to do that all the time), it just
costs. However, the projectors are where digital is really going. I agree
that right now the image quality is not really there, but the projector
companies are very aware of that and constantly making better products to
close the gap. I expect that within a few years (say, 5) digital projectors
will make visible inroads as projection TV systems. When that happens, it
will mean that the consumer accepts the quality. Shortly after that,
nondiscriminating customers will start using them for projecting digital
images. The rest will follow.
As for that digital changeover and reusing lenses, that's primarily what
I'm waiting for. Rumor is that Pentax will come out with a full-35mm-frame
6 megapixel body that uses K-mount lenses soonish. I think the rumors say
this fall, but personally I expect 2005 if Pentax's latest flagship camera
body is anything to go by (how many years were the rumors about that one
floating around before it shipped?).
later,
patbob ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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