filmscanners: Re: Future of Photography is Digital

["Michael Wilkinson" <michael@infocus-photography.co.uk>]

I really do believe that digital is going to be the mainstream method of
capturing images in the future but like Video and Cine film it will live
for some time side by side with film.
Film has a lot of advantages still,you can use a batteryless camera for
instance,underwater ,in the artic or the desert,try that with a battery
powered digital camera without taking extraordinary precautions.
Manufacturers are trying,in my view, to fit in with current popular
systems i.e. 35mm,why?
The downside of this is that the conventional 35 mm slr which is
uncomfortable to use at the best of times,(just where are you supposed
to park your nose when looking through the viewfinder )  has lenses
which  cover more than the image receptor so we have to treat that very
expensive 24mm lens as a 35mm lens etc,not very good if you've,e bought
exactly the right kit for the job on film  is it ?
If a chip is made so its only 1x 3/4 inches why not just make the body
and lens to suit as some have, the Olympus E10 springs to mind. the
"consumer" cameras have gone this way.
I think that the CMOS offers the way foreword for the medium cost SLR
type cameras, its feasible to make them larger or tile them to make
bigger receptors and at the same time map the defective pixels so that
their information which would otherwise be missing ,is interpolated and
inserted into the image.
Kodak have announced a new larger CCD chip for medium format cameras ,no
doubt it will yield excellent images but you can bet it wont come
cheaply  and as I understand it its still only 4x4cm on a 6x6cm camera
back  ,but we are getting there.
Michael Wilkinson. 106 Holyhead Road,Ketley, Telford.Shropshire TF 15 DJ
  michael@infocus-photography.co.uk      www.infocus-photography.co.uk
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