How real do people turn...? Silly question, sorry...:-)
IMHO, the advance of digital photography is related to other
issues than _just_ the advance of affordable technology.
[enter rambling mode...]
A great number of people will have a lot of pleasure in producing
images digitally, view them digitally, and print them out to put
on the wall or in a family album. Or maybe get a digital projector
and produce digital slide shows. But a greater number of people
will, for more than a lifetime from now, will have more pleasure
in _not_ having to do all the job themselves to view images. Or
having to use a computer to do so (Sidewinder argument on an e-
mail list, I know, but nontheless true). The options for these
people will be film until the digital technology is so transparent
that they don't have to _think_ about the process from they push
the button until they have a nice little pile of printed images to
flip through.
Those people would also like their images to be viewable by their
great-grandchildren when that time comes. Now how do these people
store their originals for the future? CD-rom? Diskettes? Memory
cards? There's no digital medium (or print) with a lifetime
expectancy longer than a negative.
And it seems that technology developers aren't interested in this
issue. Since the first days of digital storage, incompatible
formats have replaced each other with less than 10 year intervals.
I can't see any signs at all that this will change (but I would
love it if it happened).
Ops. Maybe a bit too aggressive? I'll go and get my medication at
once...
Jostein
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>The real question isn't when digital image capture will exceed
> the quality
>of film, but when such technology will be affordable to real
> people.
>
>--
>Mark Roberts
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