<blockquote class=quoteheader>MarkTheSpark wrote (
see)</blockquote><blockquote class=quote><blockquote class=quoteheader>Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA) wrote (
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"The lens is everything".
That statement might have been true a few years ago but these days, modern digi cameras and Photoshop can actually correct most minor lens faults.
I well remember the hours I used to spend in the dark room, taking test strips, dodging and burning etc.But would I wish to do it again - never!!
No - even an old fart like myself will admit that modern digital photography is best. Gone are the days of those horrid chemicals that went down the drain. And the hours spent in the bathroom with those orangesafelights that made you see funny colours for hours afterwards.
And talk about creativity! Photoshop is an enormously creative tool that takes a hell of a lot of skill to use.
Modern photography should be welcomed with both hands and film photography consigned to the dark memories of the past.</blockquote>
Sorry Ron, but I have to disgree with you on many levels. No software on earth will sharpen an unsharp image - it can fudge the image and do something which looks sharp, but if that information wasn't recorded in the original image, it's not there.
Secondly, digital is indeed impressive; it's what I use all the time. But the clue is in the name; it's digital, and as such every image has a finite limit beyond which it cannot be pushed. Take my D200; a frame is 3800-odd pixels wide, so on standard 300dpi print media, will got to a foot or so wide. That's it. You can manufacture more pixels from the ones you've got to make it wider, but it won't get better.
Film is analogue, limited only by the grain structure of the film. In recent years, slide film got truly impressive, and it was quite reasonable to expect to blow a 50 ISO picture three feet wide without being able to see the grain.
My mate (the formerly well-known angler Tony Lovell) wins the local camera club prizes most years. Guess what? All his pictures are shot on film.
With total digital obsession, we are definitely throwing the baby out with the bathwater...</blockquote>
yes totally agree Mark, anyomne want to buy a Nikon F5 for £599.00