Digital BW, The Print

Andy Graham writes:

> just out of curiousity......what "principles" would you be speaking
> of?

How about principles like these:

http://www.gigapxl.org/gallery-SanDiegoNight.htm

A single shot on film with four _billion_ pixels.  In a panorama of the
San Diego skyline, you can see individual lampshades inside rooms at the
hotels along the beach.  I'd love to see a twenty-foot-wide Duratrans of
this image!

An article in Wired today brags about a camera made with a scanning
digital back that produces 144 megapixels.  Unfortunately, that's 40
times smaller than the film image pointed to above.  And the digital
image requires exposures lasting for minutes, whereas the film camera
does it all in one brief exposure.

Yup, I think I'll be shooting film for quite a bit longer!