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Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 9:48
PM
Subject: Re: [APML] CCD experiences
Hello,
As some of you might have
guessed from my message to Bobby, I have parted with CCD completely. What at
first seemed like an amazing medium turned out to be something quite a bit
different... my greatest disappointment has been with the "noise" issues...
it's not enough to take good RGB exposures... after that comes a lot of
dark frame exposures and flat fields... to get an image like Rob Gendler's one
must go to unbelievable lengths. I also don't have the steadiness of seeing
that a CCD necessitates, but I do have dark skies. So I am returning to film,
only this time I am going to concentrate on slide films... I think they are
sharper than negative films.
Philip posted a very good summation of CCD vs.
film quite a few months ago... I would like to add that although CCD is
in essence a tricolor process, the noise issues make it a different
experience. Not much else to say about this... I wish I knew back then what I
know now...
Have a good one,
Tony