Digital BW, The Print

Austin,

Hard drives on desktops are much faster than hard drives on laptops 
which are faster than micro drives. Developing high speed flash memory 
is the answer for high resolution digital cameras - of course more speed 
means more power means more heat. An image contains a large amount of 
information and the best, cheapest, fastest storage medium for images 
still is film. The write time is basically zero - once the shutter is 
closed the image has been captured and "written" to the storage media. 
But, alas, film has some drawbacks.

Ten years down the road it will be interesting to see how this all 
flushes out. Will the film camera be relegated to a revered place in the 
Smithsonian as a relic or the past, or will the many high end users come 
back to film after playing with digital and the digital camera nitch be 
the point and shoot photographer who wants to sent pictures of the kids 
to grandma? I think cost and ease of use will determine a lot of it.

Cheers
Truman

Austin Franklin wrote:

> Hi Truman,
>
> SOME time lag is due to reading out the sensor, but certainly not of the
> order that is being spoke of (40 seconds).  Readout of the sensor should
> take less than a second.
>
> Writing to data storage is obviously an issue.  If you are writing to 
> a hard
> drive, it won't be any faster (in fact slower) than writing 18M (for 
> raw or
> uncompressed TIFF) to your desktop hard disk.
>
> Austin
>