My need is for some commercial and personal work, where quality is not too critical, but some features are important. Frankly, I've not paid much attention to it either, and am surprised at what I'm finding.
Even on supposedly higher-end cameras, image quality is pretty poor. Chromatic aberration is rampant, and really bad color fringing seems not to be the exception. We'd never accept that kind of crap from our 35mm cameras. Noise, color rendition, lack of sharpness, and detail do not compare to 35mm cameras and film. Check out dpreview.com and be amazed. I've been reading some digital photography magazines, trying to get a handle on what's out there. I've only read three so far, and guess what? Not a single review that I read discussed or showed image quality, but there was plenty of discussion about features. What I'm getting at is that the quality is only so-so, although good enough for many shooters in many situations, but not good enough for the kind of prints some of us like to see. There's a lot of neat features on many cameras, which are important to many users, but not to you and me. I don't need my camera to play movies, do voice-overs, and whistle Dixie. I'd gladly pass on those features for a good 3mp camera with a 28mm lens that produced sharp images. OTOH, I brought in a few hundred $$$ today with some shots made with the awful old Sony Mavica that I have. That goes to show how important quality is in some situations <g>. Paul Stenquist wrote: > > I gotta go along with your perspective here and I'm pleased to have it. . I > haven't paid much attention to the digital world. Although I scan most of m > color images and print them digitally. That's as far as I'm going for now. > Interestingly enough, many of the photographers who shoot cars for our > company use digital setups on 45 bodies that generate files of around 60 > megabytes. I generate 250 megabyte files from my 6x7 scans. On a 13 x19 > print, the difference shows. The studio guys acknowledge that film is still > better, but they also kow that the clients like the immediate turnaround of > digital. (If they so choose the agency and client folk can watch the scan > take shape on a monitor in the studio. > That's where it's at for commrece, but not for art. -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
