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

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 10:45:14PM +0000, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> > 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. :)

	In fact, another very useful feature (one of my mates has one)
is to get a feeling for how the picture is going to look like before
shooting it. For some reason, I find it easier to think about
composition without holding a camera. But that is probably me...
 
>  "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.

	The fact that most conventional digital cameras have a single
optic (i.e., a bit like the "throw-away mini-corn-flake boxes with a
film inside you can get) is also annoying. 

>  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.

	It's also quite good for WWW graphics. And simple.

>  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 :-)

	The digital bit is able to do it. You just have to get the
optics right. As I said above, the problem is with the fact that mostly,
you only get a single lens (or a zoom), and it's hard to throw in all
the stuff people covering football matches expect.

	At any rate, this is completely off-topic ramblings, so my
apologies to the list.

	José

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