Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Anthony G. 
Atkielski" <anthony@a...> wrote:
> 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!


oh,..you mean the "bigger is better" "principles"?~s~....so,it is 
NOT the image...it's how big you can blow it up?
> 
> 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!