Re: [Paddlewise] Digital cameras? Why?

Mark:

There is, admittedly, a 12-18 hour difference in the time it takes to get the
display up.  On the other hand, for the next 40 years a well exposed and
properly stored slide will permit one to make large prints (not practical
except in the smallest dimensions and low quality with digital output), project
your images in living rooms and halls for others to see (can't do that with
digital images), and be reproduced  for commercial print applications such as
magazines.  If the only application is low density web display on current
monitors then digital is OK.  For anything else, modern film emulsions offer
many long term advantages.  Do you want those pictures of that great
one-in-a-lifetime trip down the Coppermine or to Fiji or the Queen Charlottes
available for many years of future sharing and diverse applications or is it
more important to get the images up a day earlier?  Choose media accordingly.

Rich

Mark Zen wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Richard G. Mitchell, Jr. wrote:
>
> > While this is more a camera issue, the questions has been asked, so...
> >
> > Digital cameras are in their infancy in terms of quality and
> > ergonomics.  35mm film in its many forms still offers far greater
> > resolution, color density, and versatility.  If a digital record is
> > desirable you can now do it yourself at home with a desktop film scanner
> > (not the same thing as a print scanner).  The HP Photo Scanner, as an
> > example, produces 2400 dpi by 30 bit color density -- a very high
> > quality scan, and is the size of a thick book.  Alternatively Kodak will
> > produce its industry standard Kodak Photo CD along with processing at a
> > cost of around 41 cents per image retail.  The Kodak photo CD is full
> > professional quality from which virtually any size image up to 20X30"
> > can be printed (presuming you shot the original in Kodachrome II 25 in a
> > Leica or the likes. etc. etc.).   In a hurry?  My local photo shop will
> > process Kodak Elitechrome (Ektachrome) over night *and* provide a
> > scanned CD of the entire roll up to 2400 dpi for $10.95, and they do it
> > overnight.
> >
> > Richard Mitchell
>
> last july i paddled a wonderful river trip with a group from my local
> canoe club, then drove home [an hour's drive] and when i got there, the
> picture http://www.diac.com/~zen/rmcc/graphics/980712a.jpg was waiting in
> my emailbox, and i had it up on the "net" within 10 minutes ... voila, a
> webpage from a trip within minutes of getting home... high quality? don't
> know, that's in the eye of the beerholder i guess ;-) --- note, i did
> reduce the size and detail of the image for downloading quickness.
>
> can't do that with anything else ;-)
>
> mark
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