Re: [Sheflug] Linux Demo Days - SLR vs Digital :-)

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Will Newton wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> 
> >  A friend of mine is a photojournalist in Singapore, and he's had a
> > chance to use a Nikon D1 - shame it's several grand (and there are still
> > problems with it) :-(
> >  Still - don't get many digital cameras that will rival a 4x5" Speed
> > Graphic - 60 year old technology!
> 
> It depends what you want it for. For fairly standard stuff like a little
> photo of your ugly mug on your website, a digital camera is quite good
> enough. It's even good enough for "artistic" use as long as you know what
> you're doing with image processing. If you know it's going to be a 200x200
> JPG there are corners that can be cut. :)


 "Artistic" use? I expect that you're likely to see most, if not all
digital cameras, fall by the wayside when compared to my conventional
35mm gear when trying to get a 12x16 print to go on a wall somewhere -
which is where my good shots end up. The web just happens to be another
place that I can get the shots.

 About the only place I can really see for a digital camera is
photojournalistic use where the picture needs to get from real life to
the front page ASAP, and still have reasonable quality at the sizes
involved.

 Saying that, the shot of my admittedly ugly mug on my website was taken
from 300 plus feet away by a friend with a 600/4 and a teleconverter -
not something even the special digital cameras are able to do :-)

Baz.
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