Re: really no purpose anymore for traditional films (negative or

kodak@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I heard, that today there is no need anymore for traditional films
> (negative or diapositve) because by postprocessing digital camera
> shots(e.g. with Photoshop) everything can be done/achieved?
> 
> 
> Is that true and is it really that simple?


For the purposes to which 90%+ of the silver based film has been 
traditionally used, yes.

There will continue to be niche purposes for which film is the way to 
go, but the niche grows smaller every day.  There are artists making 
Daguerreotype images to this day as well as tintypes, colloidion prints, 
pinhole camera photos and the like.  The world is full of obsolete 
photographic equipment and processes.  A few people find magic in these 
and continue to create very special images with them, but the vast 
majority of users both serious and casual moved on.

  Stephen Johnson and others have been doing amazing large scale work 
using digital scanning backs on larger format cameras.  Thus even the 
traditional domain of the 120/220 roll film cameras and even larger view 
cameras has been largely taken over by large digital capture backs for 
professional purposes.

We are witnesses to the end of one era and the start of another.

John