The beginning of the end for 35mm?

[Fletch]

I always like it when "purists" try to deride the fact that digital photos can be so easily manipulated to get different effects out of a shot. Go look at anything Ansel Adams did. He'd sit for hours in his dark room letting his prints expose to light as he held cardboad, cheesecloth, and other stuff in the way of the lamp in order to artifically lighten and darken areas. He was filtering photos long before Photoshop and Picasa.

Plus, if you think Ansel Adams (or any of his generational bretheren) wouldn't have killed for a good Digital SLR that could take thousands of shots of storage on a microdrive that he could take out to the wilderness instead of bulky heavy equipment to get maybe 15 exposures, you're crazy.

[ginsengavenger]

Point taken, but there I don't think there's a digital camera made that can rival the fidelity of large format

And the tinkerer in me doesn't think anyone will be building his own dSLR anytime soon.

[TomWithTheWeather]

Point taken, but there I don't think there's a digital camera made that can rival the fidelity of large format

Not yet anyways. Well, at least not one in a comparable price range.

[Bic-B@ll]

no way, where?!

you know...the internet

[TomWithTheWeather]

Minotla quits camera biz.

[jfas]

That sucks. Although after some thought im interested in what kind of crazy new stuff they'll come out with now

[ook]

Point taken, but there I don't think there's a digital camera made that can rival the fidelity of large format

And the tinkerer in me doesn't think anyone will be building his own dSLR anytime soon.

well actually post pros that have gone digital still use their good ol hasselblad. They just buy a super high megapixel back for it that is actually in some ways higher resolution than even the 5x4 negatives that guys like ansel adams use.

Heck head on over to http://www.hasselblad.com/ and check out their new 39 megapixel monster. You know if these oldschool camera makers are going digital that it's the wave of the future.

That said there will always be analog junkies. Hell in some ways I am too, I have stax of records and still preffer the sound of them for some live recordings. Of course I would never trade them in for my ipod either.

- ook

[ook]

just for a laugh and to make fun of myself i looked up the price of the H2D39...

drumroll please.

thirty thousand dollars.

ow.

- ook

[ginsengavenger]

heh..

also, and this is only loosely related but still interesting (hooray for tinkering):

http://mirror.geo.localizedmedia.com/sc ... raphy.com/

[Bic-B@ll]

that's super cool. i want to see more pictures of cars going away from the camera.