In article <nJQah.7338$Kw2.577@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, jeremy <jeremy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>I came across an article written by the director of Photography for
"Arizona
>Highways" magazine that succinctly recites the pros and cons of
switching.
>
>Two of his points were thought-provoking:
>
>"Mostly, camera manufacturers drive the discourse. Digital technology is
>advancing rapidly, and there is heavy competition among manufacturers for
>market share. They need to move product, so it's in their best interests
to
>convince consumers that film is obsolete and digital is hot. The quicker
>they can transition the consumer market from film to digital, the better.
I assume he is talking about 4x5.
For smaller formats, digital has long reached to point where it is
a better medium for many kinds of images.
On the other hand, is talking about 'consumers'. So it looks like this
comment may been true when the first 3 Mpixel cameras were just on the
market, but doesn't make any sense today.
>And this:
>
>"The thing I find most curious about some digital photographers is their
>proselytizing for the digital cause. Why is it so important to them that
the
>rest of us jump on the digital bandwagon? My own theory is that they
believe
>the magazine cover lines. They bought into the notion that digital has
>arrived, and prematurely dumped their film cameras, going all-digital
before
>the industry is ready to support it. So now they must convince the rest
of
>us to switch to digital so their photographs have some value.
This sounds like a strawman. Of course there will be people who argue that
you need to have to lastest greatest.
Given that he is publisher, I wonder why he doesn't talk about the
technical standards he likes to maintain.
For example, he says that the magazine's submission policy excludes
digital-capture images. Does that make sense? The only reason he
gave for not using is digital is that he wants to make sure that the
image are not manipulated. But you can manipulate scans as well.
At the same time, scanning backs and medium format digital backs
should be able to deliver enough image quality for very large prints.
So it looks like he set up a strawman to hide his anti-digital bias.
--
That was it. Done. The faulty Monk was turned out into the desert where it
could believe what it liked, including the idea that it had been hard done
by. It was allowed to keep its horse, since horses were so cheap to make.
-- Douglas Adams in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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