Comments on: Nikon and film parting ways in the U.K. http://www.internet451.com/2006/01/12/nikon-and-film-parting-ways-in-the-uk/ go ahead...burn the books Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:20:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: notaw http://www.internet451.com/2006/01/12/nikon-and-film-parting-ways-in-the-uk/comment-page-1/#comment-7 notaw Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:18:14 +0000 http://www.internet451.com/i451/nikon-and-film-parting-ways-in-the-uk/#comment-7 Film is not going completely. It's going to get exclusive instead. Thirty five milimeter film will disappear and we will have medium and large format film for a while. Hasselblad just brought out a 39 megapixel camera, and Kodak had just recently developed a 42 megapixel chip. We won't see these in compact cameras any time soon, though. I just hope that camera manufacturers would stop, just for a while, to constantly up the megapixels and instead concentrate on dealing with some other pressing issues, such as detail in shadow & highlight and noise. Those are some pretty big issues. Film is not going completely. It’s going to get exclusive instead. Thirty five milimeter film will disappear and we will have medium and large format film for a while.

Hasselblad just brought out a 39 megapixel camera, and Kodak had just recently developed a 42 megapixel chip. We won’t see these in compact cameras any time soon, though. I just hope that camera manufacturers would stop, just for a while, to constantly up the megapixels and instead concentrate on dealing with some other pressing issues, such as detail in shadow & highlight and noise. Those are some pretty big issues.

]]> By: Fire Dog 8 http://www.internet451.com/2006/01/12/nikon-and-film-parting-ways-in-the-uk/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Fire Dog 8 Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:45:37 +0000 http://www.internet451.com/i451/nikon-and-film-parting-ways-in-the-uk/#comment-4 I prefered the digital camera almost immediately. I still miss the speed in which you can snap off pics but imagine that will be close to old-school cameras before long. It does cause a bit of sadness and concern that all the camera technology I grew up with a took classes for are a thing of the past. Gone. Darkrooms no longer needed. What do you do with an obsolete enlarger? Progress marches on but it's rather disconcerting to see a major technology of the last 150 years just vanish. I prefered the digital camera almost immediately. I still miss the speed in which you can snap off pics but imagine that will be close to old-school cameras before long.

It does cause a bit of sadness and concern that all the camera technology I grew up with a took classes for are a thing of the past. Gone.
Darkrooms no longer needed. What do you do with an obsolete enlarger?

Progress marches on but it’s rather disconcerting to see a major technology of the last 150 years just vanish.

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