That was interesting, certainly about what I would expect. Strange to see Ken Rockwell with a Canon - wasn't he the worlds foremost Nikon fan? I had an Olympus trip as a youngster and never had any doubts over its excellent lens.
In 2005 we had a lovely holiday in Iceland. I had my Canon and a Mamiya 7 with 43mm and 80mm lenses (lighter than my 6008i). Whilst I didn't make the sort of comparison seen here - I couldn't be bothered, FWIW the superiority of the Mamiya 7 scans over the Canon files was a bit less than the superiority seen here of the Canon over the Olympus.
For me the outstanding benefits of digital over film are as follows. If I only take 3 shots I can print them straight away rather than waiting for the film to be finished. If on a holiday I am taking pictures inside and out, day and night I can change the effective iso at will. Even though I have had a darkroom for 40 years and process my own colour films, digital is much faster to produce a hard copy and gives more consistent prints.
There are different opinions on the net about whether film or digital has the highest resolution. On prints of the size I make I have found that resolution is not the most important thing I am looking for. I have some very good A4 prints from my first 3.3 megapixel SLR. I have some unusable medium format negatives. Lack of flare, colour, lack of grain and boke are all more important to me. You take the best pictures with the camera you have with you, which for me is now nearly always digital. Like many others I await an affordable digiback for my 6008i.
Frank On 17 Jul, 2007, at 18:15, eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/olympus/trip-35.htm
