[filmscanners] Re: a bit OT, but still important...

["" <anthony@ohalloran.co.uk>]

mike_stp wrote:
>
> I very much agree with you. What I'm missing in the digital vs. film debate
> is the consideration of any aesthetic arguments. It's simply about
> resolution and detail and nobody seems to care about the (to me) strange
> look you get when photographing with the ultra-short focal lengths needed in
> digital photography (because of the small chip sizes).

Correct me if i'm wrong but don't ultra-short focal lengths on small dig
formats look the same as 'standard' focal lengths on standard sized
formats??? Are you talking about a DOF issue?

Surely aren't the small digital formats better in some respects? If you
pay $1000 for a 400mm f2.8 or the same for a 100mm f2.8 I think I know
which one would be of a better quality.

> To me, MF rules, I'm a people photographer and I can definitely see the
> difference in my photos between 35 and MF. I'm even thinking about switching
> to Mamiya because of the larger frame size and the longer focal lengths.
>
> This digital hype has really killed some of the joy I had in photography. It
> gives me the feeling working with obsolete material when shooting film, but,
> on the other hand, the new digital stuff isn't ready to my expectations yet,
> so I can't enjoy one or the other.
>
> Regards
>
> Mike

How can you feel you are working with obsolete material when you clearly
said MF rules. Surely it's only obsolete if there is something out there
that does it better. Even though I can't wait to get my hands on a Canon
EOS 1Ds, in some ways my consumer body costing 20 times less is not
obsolete because I get a piece of film out of it that I know will
probably out last me. I can't say the same thing about images stored on
CD's (which are cheap in every way). I'm also worried that my the
layered, compressed tiffs I'm storing won't open in Photoshop 12 due to
some little bug.

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