whow, the detail in the images is incredible. Is this the future of
digital?
On Mar 12, 2005, at 11:48 AM, Brad Davis wrote:
>
>
>
> Tony,
>
> Thanks for the url. Just a note about the spelling for
> www.gigapxl.org, it
> is gigapxl, rather than gigapixl (note that the "i" must be dropped
> from
> between the "p"and "x").
>
> The site is very much worth spending time with - and it can consume as
> many
> hours as you want to give. Rarely (outside of refereed scientific
> publications) does one see such complete explanations of how and why
> various
> decisions were made.
>
> Brad
>
> On 3/12/05 2:00 AM, "Tony Sleep" <TonySleep@halftone.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Peter Marquis-Kyle wrote:
>>
>>> And thanks (again) for keeping this list
>>> going -- the dwindling crew of old fogies still doing this stuff
>>
>> The list requires no effort on my part at all, if it's quiet - just
>> weeding
>> all the newly-bouncing mail addresses whenever it wakes up
>> periodically.
>> There are still 399 list members and 562 digest members. New people
>> still
>> join.
>>
>> Personally, I've shot just two rolls in 2years, everything else has
>> been on
>> digital cameras. I absolutely love dig. and am happy to leave film
>> behind,
>> with only a few reservations about B&W. The materials I liked best
>> are long
>> gone anyway, eg Record Rapid before they ruined it by taking all the
>> filthy
>> Cadmium out for H&S reasons. And there is the sad fact that
>> photographs are
>> now virtual entities which will for the most part be lost forever.
>> Successive generations are unlikely to have the dusty box of old
>> prints to
>> look at of Great Grandad Tony. But I still have vast amounts of legacy
>> material to scan. At my current rate of progress I'll easily have it
>> all
>> finished within 3 or 400 years.
>>
>> Incidentally, regarding the adjacent thread on film vs. sensor, for
>> some
>> truly staggering examples of film + scanning have a look at the
>> Gigapixl
>> project - www.gigapixl.org
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tony Sleep -
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