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Post #177,393
by admin
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10/1/04 5:15:40 PM
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New Complete agreement.
And as Drew pointed out, the difference is merely resolution. A 5 MP camera is pretty damned close to indistinguishable from analog. Only if you blow something up way beyond normal size will you notice a difference.

Hell, all of those pretty Hubble photographs you see? Digital. All of professional astronomy has been digital for some time now.

Case in point: [link|http://www.chapman-anderson.org/pictures/stuff/tn/imgp0144.jpg.html|http://www.chapman-a...imgp0144.jpg.html] which is 1/4 the normal resolution I use, which isn't even the highest my camera will go.
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Post #177,402
by lincoln
10/1/04 6:28:06 PM
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New The only difference is permanency
I know that a negative I hold today will be perfectly able in 50 years to produce a photograph. I don't hold any confidence that digital photography, stored as bits on magnetic media, will last anywhere near as long.
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Post #177,410
by drewk
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10/1/04 7:43:22 PM
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New Known issue for all digital media
Along with the copyright black hole, which will make the 20th century appear to future civilization as a second dark age of art and thought, is the fact that any digital media stored in obsolete formats disappears from the world.

Even if we keep copying the bits from one storage medium to the next, eventually we lose the programs that made those bits meaningful. Consider the challenge, even 50 years from now, of finding a complete copy of every binary file in the world today. With no idea what files are cad, which ones are images, which ones are word-processing documents, how do you reverse-engineer the file formats?
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     Another great photographer goes down - (deSitter) - (21) - Oct. 1, 2004, 03:22:46 PM EDT
         What are you talking about? - (bepatient) - (20) - Oct. 1, 2004, 03:37:59 PM EDT
             Oh, please. - (mmoffitt) - (19) - Oct. 1, 2004, 04:36:47 PM EDT
                 So is film, the bits are just smaller -NT - (drewk) - (2) - Oct. 1, 2004, 04:42:03 PM EDT
                     There is no "art of digital photography". - (mmoffitt) - (1) - Oct. 1, 2004, 04:44:01 PM EDT
                         I'm sure - (imric) - Oct. 1, 2004, 04:54:00 PM EDT
                 Know any photographers? - (bepatient) - (13) - Oct. 1, 2004, 05:06:03 PM EDT
                     Complete agreement. - (admin) - (2) - Oct. 1, 2004, 05:15:40 PM EDT
                         The only difference is permanency - (lincoln) - (1) - Oct. 1, 2004, 06:28:06 PM EDT
                             Known issue for all digital media - (drewk) - Oct. 1, 2004, 07:43:22 PM EDT
                     That reminds me.... - (n3jja) - Oct. 1, 2004, 06:54:37 PM EDT
                     Re: Know any photographers? - (deSitter) - (8) - Oct. 2, 2004, 02:54:00 PM EDT
                         You're aware that AA did tricks, right? - (Another Scott) - (6) - Oct. 2, 2004, 03:30:30 PM EDT
                             I ?think? this was my entire point -NT - (deSitter) - (5) - Oct. 3, 2004, 02:46:16 AM EDT
                                 Seemed the opposite to me. But ... - (Another Scott) - (4) - Oct. 3, 2004, 10:45:27 AM EDT
                                     Well of course - (deSitter) - (2) - Oct. 3, 2004, 02:22:11 PM EDT
                                         But with the true masterpiece - (bepatient) - (1) - Oct. 3, 2004, 02:40:26 PM EDT
                                             That only shows - (jake123) - Oct. 3, 2004, 03:34:48 PM EDT
                                     A nice clarification of McL's subtlety.. - (Ashton) - Oct. 4, 2004, 05:56:47 AM EDT
                         Bull-pucky - (bepatient) - Oct. 2, 2004, 03:31:20 PM EDT
                 And the horse you - (folkert) - (1) - Oct. 1, 2004, 05:40:47 PM EDT
                     Cousin said it best. - (bepatient) - Oct. 1, 2004, 08:51:07 PM EDT

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