Digital BW, The Print

Hi There,
 
I am in agreement with Martin.  I have heard this debate about digital and film ad nauseum going on all around me.  I am a film guy with a whole bunch of years experience ( not telling the years)..lol   Still using film and will continue for a long time.  I have negatives and slides which have been stored well and I am scanning them into the computer. I joined this group to learn more about digital printing since I closed my darkroom a few years ago. Learning Photoshop, I discovered I can do much more creative work with the computer than I could do in the darkroom.  As far as I can see, film and digital will be with us for a long while.  I for one am not going to "mortgage the farm" to replace all of my film gear for digital.   Let's talk more about printing..:) BTW, Gary Benson, if you are from the NJ area.  I say hey there!!
 
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Martin Wesley <mwesley250@...> wrote:
Guys,

Can you bring this thread back around to the list topic of B&W digital
printing. Kind of wandering a bit far field here.

Thanks,
Martin Wesley

http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Nelson" <peter@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 7:41 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] RE: a full-frame Nikon digital SLR this fall? (was Re:
[DigitalBW] digital)


> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Anthony
> Atkielski" <anthony@a...> wrote:
> > Peter writes:
> >
> > > Speak for yourself.
> >
> > That is my usual practice.
> >
> > > Digital has many advantages over film.
> >
> > And many disadvantages as well.  I won't list them for the
> millionth time,
> > however.
>
> Most of the commercial and PJ and stock photographers I know are
> using digital.   Even the studio MF shooters are now going digital
> since the new lines of big format CCD's has started to come out.
> There's already a full-format 645 out.
>
> There are very few areas where digital still doesn't cut it.  If you
> really need 6x7 or larger you're stuck with film; if you need to do
> long exposures - in excess of a few minutes - film is the way to go.
> If you need full, non-bayesian-artifacted RGB resolution, film still
> has an edge, but it's a very slight one.
>
> But that's about it.  And all of those are corner cases.   Within a
> few years film-shooters will have to buy their film mail-order and do
> their own processing because the market for those things will be too
> small to support local labs and film stores.  Film shooters will be
> like fans of vinyl LP's and tube amplifiers - still around, but
> irrelevant.
>
>
>
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