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Given that probably the best AP'er of the lot has
just confirmed what we have all suspected for some time (that film v CCD
is a one sided battle) it has made me wonder what I am doing struggling
with film and all it's challenges. The recent Tech Pan scare only added to my
suspicions.
I don't hold it against Tony for going to the dark
side or perhaps it should be known as the luminance side, I bought an STV a few
months ago for guiding and while it does that so well, I decided to try taking a
few images with it and I was hooked. They are not much to look at yet but
the ease with which it happened and the fact that I could "work" on them during
the next day was a real bonus.
This brings me to point of this
introspective. There is still a place for film in AP. Wide field
colour work is still going to be best done with film for some time yet. It may
be ten or twenty years before we have a CCD the size of a medium format frame
and until then I will proudly use film.
I also watch the SBIG users group and with some
sadness I must admit the images coming from CCD's for narrow field shots is
leaving film behind.
There is an undeniable romance in using film,
particularly when you have slide film and a light box but with all the other
challenges we have to overcome to get a decent shot, for anything other than
wide field work, my heart is with film but my head is with CCD's.
Monte
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