Digital BW, The Print

Good point, there are places a horse can carry you that a car cannot. dan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bert Katzung" <katzung1@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Digital Vs. Film


> This whole thread is way off topic, but I can't resist asking the question
> of those who, like Michel, see nothing but chaos in the digital world:
> Why is that 95% of pros have switched to digital?
> Surely, they did not do it because they like chaos, want their equipment
to
> become obsolete within months, have no permanent storage, etc, etc? No, if
> you read Shutterbug, look at Luminous Landscape, etc, and find out WHY
they
> switched, you find that they have very good, rational reasons, reasons
that
> apply to amateurs as well as pros.
> No one is forcing anyone to switch to digital, just as no one forced
people
> to give up horses when cars were invented. Lots of people still prefer
> horses, but few use them to travel professionally.
> That's all for me, I'm out of this discussion.
> Bert
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "lours51" <sinwen@...>
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 12:19 PM
> Subject: [Digital BW] Digital Vs. Film
>
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> Just my feelings about this very important subject.
>
> I am still using film and will for a long while I guess. At
> present if I had to go digital I would only go for a small pocketable
> camera.
>
> - Film is a very mature technic it had never been as good.
> - Film storage is easy and gives no hassle ; it seems that some
> museums make negatives out of digital files due to that.
> - With a neg or a slide you have a picture in hand that you can see,
> no such thing with a digital file.
> - Film forces you to think before you release the shutter.
> - As someone said earlier in this thread, the pictures grow in you
> and the treatment is also part of my pleasure.
> - The camera can be all mechanical, mature technic as well, no
> battery, it is very reliable and straight forward to use.
>
> - Digital is just born, the equipment is obsolete within months,
> there is no second hand market ; we talk now of curved sensor for
> example.
> - It is mainly electronics and that's very fragile, it sucks
> batteries within a whisper.
> - It relies on computer technology forcing you to keep up with both.
> - It is very easy to lost your files, they can get easily corrupted
> or erased.
> - Nonetheless the actual results are promising.
>
> I consider digital to be the typical consumer product, Snap, Look and
> Throw, you consume images. As an "amateur", for the reasons mentioned
> above, I will never deep in four figures $$$$ into a piece of
> electronic equipment, so I eliminate professionnal machines.
> And marketing doesn't help, when will we have just a simple camera, I
> don't want it to be a thermometer, clock, phone or coffee machine !
> I may have one of these toys and use it as such until some of the
> inconvenients are in control then I will reconsider my opinion.
>
> One final word, Mister Everybody who bought a digicam, will realise
> his mistake the day he will turn back and look for his souvenirs,
> there are many chances he won't have any, in return it was so easy to
> open a dusty shoebox and find everything in there.
>
> Michel
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