Digital BW, The Print

I read that also and while I was studying at MD Institute of Art one of 
the mainstays, Richard Kerstel,  also said (this was in the 70's), "my 
only regreat is I can't be alive when the digital world is fully upon 
us." I belive AA and RK werew making the same statement. However, the 
digital world is still in it's infancy. We are stuck with small sensors 
and we have a physical limit on how close we can place sensor cells. 
There is no way any digital capture divice costing less that a million 
buck can give the same surface area with the same resolution as a 4x5 
sheet of film. We may get there some day, but we aren't there yet.

My background is signal processing. I've spent time in optical image 
process, radar image processing and hyperspectral image processing. 
While we are getting better in digital capture we still have a ways to 
go - at least in affordable sensors.

Truman

flyfishingusa2002 wrote:

> Truman,
> Somewhere in Ansels writings, whilst he was still alive he saw a
> very early digital and made a statment to the effect that all
> photography would be this way someday and that he would embrace it.
> If I come across the excact quote I will let you know.
> You seem to miss the fact that Ansel used both medium format and
> 35mm on occasions.
> Nothing wrong with the wet stuff, just that "Digital B/W printing is
> not the place for a very lengthy discussion, if you can call it that
> on which vintage of Tri-X is better.
> Can you use a digicam? If so lets see some of your work, at least
> some of mine has been published.
> I do not intend to keep any "Flame War" going...As I said, to many
> keyboard bullies around that seem to have way to much time to write
> lengthy and boring essay's.
>
> Sierra Gold
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