[rollei_list] Re: Digital Advice

You can believe what you want. Everyone justifies what they own especially
those who cling to their film cameras.

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Austin Franklin <
austin.franklin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> > Now that the output from these cameras far exceed the quality that
> > I could produce (for my normal wedding/photojournalism work) with 35mm
> > film...
>
> Shooting both film and digital, for quite a few years, I still don't see
> higher digital quality from any sub $2k digital camera than 35mm film.
>  But,
> that's using my criteria...some people think that sharpness somehow is
> higher image quality...but in reality, it is typically not.  I think a lot
> of the digital "quality" people like, like sharpness, are a false metric
> with respect to actual image fidelity.  Comics are very sharp, but have
> little detail.
>
> So, anyway, though I fully appreciate and agree that *some* people believe
> their digital output has higher "quality" than they got with film, I
> believe
> a lot of it is misperception of actual image fidelity.  But, hey, since in
> today's society perception is everything (reality takes a back seat), then
> if they think an image with lower image fidelity is higher "quality", who
> am
> I to argue.
>
> The bottom line is, it really depends on what the criteria for "quality"
> is.
> That, for some reason, seems to almost never be stated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Austin
>
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