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Ron Wisner of the Wisner large format camera company wrote an article for the periodical View Camera, after much prompting, on the dichotomy of digital vs. film.link below.
I also found an article at luminous-landscape.com talking about the kind of setup that's been on my mind for at least a little while now, a small large format (6x9) field camera with a wireless digital back. http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/digital-view.shtml
-praise the day when full size sensors are fitted to 6x9 backs. How cool would it be to use a turn of the last century brass convertible lense with a fast digital back?Reading Ron's piece i was sorely reminded how my fear of obsolescence has shaped my opinion. It seems a catch 22 at the moment, turn one way and buying a piece of digital gear means a version with twice the resolution will be available in a couple years, or the large format printer you bought will have no software support, and now turn the other and gradually the film supply is starting to shrink, and is only going to get worse. When it comes right down to it neither solution is at all environmentally friendly, throwing out your camera (or digi-back in this instance) every couple years is scarcely better than having gallons of noxious chemicals floating around, especially if you consider what goes into the production of those sensors and intergrated circuits.
how useable will a CCD sensor be in say, 30 years? what film will be available in 30 years?
Follow Ups:
Sucked into a Nikon D100 as I could use existing lenses and observe the following -* instead of heaps of bookshelf albums of prints and boxes of slides, all rarely looked at, I now have heaps of digital images, also rarely looked at, but they take up far less space
* where I once would have taken one shot on film I now take 3 or 4 digital images
* the 2 gb digital images out of the camera have to be dumbed down with Adobe in physical and byte size if you want to send pics by email that can be seen in total & are not so big in file size you strain friendships
* using Adobe I can correct for minor misalignment of the horizon and generally improve framing and easily alter the contrast etc
* I VERY rarely print out pics - many years ago (and 3 computers ago) I purchased a colour printer which would handle A3 but have never even printed one of my photographic masterpieces
* the value of lenses has dropped like a stone - down to less than 25% if my recent sale experience is any guide. Like computers, we can expect money spent on digital gear to drop in value very quickly as it becomes superceded by yet another miracle product
But then, digital cameras suit our extravagent "throw away" society rather well don't they?
John
No cure possible or is solicited for this audio, video and classical music obsession. I love it!
Hmmmm....now if they only made a digital camera body for my Leica Summilux-R 50mm. f/1.4 lens. The lens would be the keeper but I could keep throwing the body away for the next new miracle.
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