Re: That Worn-Out, Old "Film vs. Digital" Debate

<ellis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>convince consumers that film is obsolete and digital is 
hot.
>
> For most consumers film *is* obsolete. What I worry about is the 
> professional
> and large format market where film still kicks digital's butt.

It can. On the high end of quality both are excellent and shooters use
them 
each for their individual merits. For example, my Betterlight scanning
back 
for my 4x5 camera can equal the quality I can get with either 4x5 or even 
8x10 film that's been fluid mounted and drum scanned, but the conditions 
need to be just right. In both cases and when shooting conditions are at 
their best the limiting factors appear to be with optics and not film vs. 
digital.

Whoever said that the loss of the infrastructure of film will be its
demise 
hit the nail on the head. We're losing the component parts of what has
been 
a reliable workflow at a rapid rate as the bean counters slash away 
indiscriminately at their balance sheets. Film will be around for the 
future, but it will be so difficult a medium to embrace that it might as 
well go away. Some people still make albumen prints and coat glass plates,

but it's not so easy to coat your own slide film and make the chemistry to

process it and do all of this well.