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Re: [APML] Film vs Digital - Not Just Astrophotographers



Uhh...another blanket comment about CCD that just ain't true.
 
Tony, how many people do you know who do large and medium format
landscape photography? Other than the above everything else is better
off on digital these days which includes anything previously done with
35mm, all macro photography and much of nature photography.
 
Regarding astrophotography your comment (I'm sorry Tony) just doesn't make
any sense. Lets see...whats better off imaged with CCD? OK...all galaxies,
planetary nebulas, planets, the moon, all nebulas smaller than 30 arcmin.
 
Whats better suited to film? A couple of dozen large nebulas and of course
widefield imaging of the milkyway.
 
One other point is that the advantages of digital astroimaging has allowed so
many more people to engage in astroimaging as a hobby. The conditions for
successful film astrophotography are much more stringent as you know.
 
How on earth can you make a statement like "digital only works within
narrow parameters"? I really don't understand your comments.
 
 
Rob Gendler
Email: robgendler@att.net
Web site: http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] Film vs Digital - Not Just Astrophotographers

Hello,
 
   I would like to add my comments to Joe's about digital vs. film... at the moment, there is nothing like a low ASA 6 X 7 chrome for shooting on location... maybe a digital back exists somewhere that can produce a 250 - 500 MB 8 bit file that can blow up to 40 X 50, but if it does, only Superman can afford it and then it will necessitate having a laptop computer and all kinds of add-ons and gizmos to go with it. With my experiences with digital, both astro CCD and terrestrial, I find that within certain defined parameters the digital works better than film, but those parameters are still so narrow that if I had to pick one or the other, CCD would be out on its butt in no time!
 
      Tony