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sooo, what about digital? (article from View Camera) +

Posted by Dominic on October 27, 2005 at 21:04:32:
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?