[rollei_list] Mark William Rabiner and Digital
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:55:20 -0400
At 04:35 PM 9/23/2009, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>99.9% of all commercial and most all else photography is digital now. Its
>nice that we on this camrea list find it viable. What's surprising is that
>we would be surprised.
Mark
I love you like a brother but I REALLY question
that figure. 80% is probably more to the
truth. SOMEONE is buying and developing film,
and I do know a number of professionals who still
use film, these being portrait and architecture and advertising guys.
Despite your hype, digital still cannot match
film in anything beyond convenience and probably
will not be fully able to do so for another
decade or more. I made that point in the early
1990's in the early days of this list,
identifying then that 2020 would be the probable
year when quality became equal between film and
digital. (We can discuss scientific and
technical applications separately as these do
have a specific distinction with photography.) I
still believe 2020 will be the year of the
change. And the optical engineers with whom I
have discussed this say the same.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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