Re: Re: Digital camera blues

There is nothing better than film for data capture and won't be for some time.

George
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> From: kateb@paradise.net.nz
> Date: 2003/11/07 Fri PM 10:35:13 CST
> To: "alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca" <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
> Subject: Re: Digital camera blues
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> Quoting Charlotte 1 <cgabrie1@optonline.net>:
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> > Judy - I don't know much about digital cameras because after months of
> > looking into buying one I concluded that scanning a photo would be
> > better
> > for me.
> Just to add my two cents' worth - everything charlotte says is valid,
> particularly what she says about noise. I made a complete ass of myself this
> year working with a digital (Fuji Finepix) and my night class. Evrything you do
> with digital has to be MUCH better exposed than film - there is not much room
> for error. The finepix is now a dinosaur after 8 months - we bought it because
> it could use the Nikon lenses we already had.It also weighs so much that when i
> pick up my canon after it it feels as if something terrible has happened to it -
> like its insides have all fallen out or something. I MUCH prefer to use analog
> and scan...and i've been making digital negs for at least 3 years and feel no
> need for a digicam at all.
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Received on Sat Nov 8 08:55:52 2003