Digital BW, The Print

From: "Peter Nelson" <peter@...>
Subject: Re: Techies -vs- Artists

> > But that's not what this thread ("Techies -vs- Artists")
> > is about, is it?   Go back and reread the original.  What
> > THIS thread is about is the claim by some MF shooters
> > that digital has such high resolution that it forces
> > them to buy new, sharper lenses.  And THAT's a statement
> > where numbers **DO** tell the whole story.  That's a claim
> > that could only be made by an art major.

That hasn't been written, read that part again. It says "the
quality of the sensors" that isn't about resolution only, it
would have been better if I had written "the quality of the one
step digital system" as that includes more than just the sensors.
The message was an impression of what digital camera/back owners
observe and report. Based on that it wouldn't be wise to cling
too much to your existing lenses when you have to decide what
digital system is best and when it is time to make the step.

The flames contained a lot of arithmetics that were not all as
sound as they pretended to be and those computations do not
represent the usual practice either. Techies -vs- Artists -vs-
Actual users would have been a better subject line. The artists
can cope with anything and get results whether they start with
the wrong idea in their head or not, the actual users see the
results and draw their conclusions right or wrong, the techies
will always be counting along the road and will always be right
but don't get there in the end. And to be honest I belong more to
the last so I know what their weakness is.

Ernst