Digital BW, The Print

Peter, it's not necessary to turn the discussion personal. It's better
to read skillfully for meaning. As well, Accufine used skillfully
produced exceptionally fine grain at 1200 with Tri X. It dissolved
grain...people that wanted grain used sharper developers, such as Rodinal.

I didn't say the F10 replaces DSLRs, but the technology of this $400
camera is ahead of the technology in any 8mp digicam. No review and no
example that I've seen suggests that any of the 8mp digicams begins to
approach the low noise of the F10 at 400ei, not to mention 1600. 

If you have a new 8mp digicam, good luck. But you know as well as I do
that one way or another it'll be an antique in ONE (count em')year. 

IMO the combination of Kodak and Fuji, as in the Olympus 4/3 chip, is
of real interest. Kodak has been making sensors literally decades
longer than any other "brand"...the first I ever saw were about 1978.

If Canon or Nikon want to sell physically smaller cameras they'll have
to go to 4/3 or square because the aspect ratio has to change if lens
diameter to get smaller...and smaller leads to faster focusing and
greater depth of field therefore sharper focusing etc etc etc. 

All of this suggests orders of magnitude design changes within a year 
IMO...and I think the SLR form factor will be abandoned completely.