On: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 Jorge Parra wrote: > Coincidentially, just a few days ago, in his last seminar in Atlanta at PEI, > living leyend Jay Maisel, one of the strongest detractors of digital and now > fully, totally ,massively converted into 35 DSLR systems, said in his > public speech � f...k image quality if it means that I get the shot ".
Uh, I was there last weekend with Martin Evening, Bruce Fraser, Seth Resnick & John Paul Caponigro as well as Greg Gorman. It was grand except for one thing, Jay wasn't there. So, not sure where that quote came from. . . But, to further the discussion about digital capture (although not at a low end) my presentation (given in Apple's Keynote I might add) was a side by side comparison of digital capture from a Canon 1Ds and film from an EOS 1. Side by side, exact same lens & crop. Digital processed through an un-named beta of a soon to be announced raw image conversion (in 6 seconds from preview on a 1gig Ti Laptop using OS X) and up-rezed in stages to the same size as the 35mm chrome scanned on an Imacon 848 at 6700ppi. (film was EPP) Result? Film sucks. . .badly! Digital from the 1Ds had more resolution-even after uprez, had more accurate color rendering, at least 1-1.5 stops dynamic range, more accurate ISO and all around beat the panties off the film. For the PEI Conference, I did 20x30 prints of both the film & the captures on a 7600 Epson. The photographers in the audience were pretty shocked. Not so much that digital won, but by how wide a margin digital out preformed film and on so many levels. At the end, I gave away the digital capture prints and tore up the prints from the film. The crowd got a kick out of that. Capture is coming of age. . .still ain't "cheap" ($8K US), still has limitations (long exposures & noise) still takes time to process (ok, 6 seconds to open a raw converted 16 bit, 62mb file is quick) but is superior to film. I wouldn't want to own a film lab these days :-( Regards, Jeff Schewe P.S. Martin is still on the road. . .either Atlanta or Toronto (depending on a certain lady's availability) but should be back across the pond shortly. Perhaps he can chime in-pretty sure he didn't see Jay either <BG>. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
