[pure-silver] Re: Amusing Kodak commercial
- From: "Dana H. Myers" <dana.myers@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 10:15:51 -0800
Stein wrote:
> Dear Dana,
>
> You may be right. The digital camera seems to be made by Canon and
> is a Powershot S2. I imagine in other hands it would perform wonders -
> in mine it makes a fine paperweight. I cannot imagine that even in clear
> open sun I could coerce it into firing when I wanted it to. Indeed I
> need to exercise my powers of anticipation when I use my Hasselblad
> 500-series cameras during our fighting contests. There is a very small
> interval to capture a sword stroke. The bleeding you can pose as much as
> you like....
It's primarily a matter of the auto-focus/auto-exposure implementations
on the digital cameras; the compact point and shoot (P&S) cameras are
basically the same whether they're digital or film-based; P&S film cameras
typically were quite frustrating for me the same way.
Digital cameras additionally have a recovery time to process the
captured image; the P&S digital cameras are typically worse than than
shooting with comparable film cameras in this respect. A modern Digital
SLR (DSLR) is, for the most part, superior to shooting film; with many
DSLRs, you can a shoot a sequence of 20-30 frames @ 3-5fps before a pause
- and not have to reload film for the next burst. It's great for
sports photography, for example.
> I shall not condemn digital completely out of hand as one of my
> holiday presents was a very large Epson scanner. I am told by the donor
> that this will enable me to scan negatives and put them on a website,
> which is also part of the present. I shall wait patiently - I note that
> the scanner will even take my 8 x 10 negs as well as all the smaller
> sizes. Perhaps good will come of it.
Which Epson scanner did you get? A V700 or V750? They're quite well-rated.
I have an Epson 4490 which provides very good scans of 35mm and 120; though
the scanner probably has a useful optical resolution of about half the
sensor resolution, it's still quite good. I've since started using a Nikon
LS-9000, which does a really superb job up to 120.
Cheers -
Dana
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