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Good information Thanks!bruce46 wrote:Just copy it from the product description of the merchant who sells a film camera on eBay. I just thought it would contribute to the argument between film and digital.
Why Film is Not Out
Do you know that digital photos are not admissible in court? Do you know that digital photos are rarely accepted in passports? Have you ever asked why X-Rays still uses film? or Why is Micro-Filming of documents still widely used? The answer is simple, film is a media which cannot be manipulated without a trace. A film is 100% representative of the printed image. An x-ray film is 100% representative of one's health condition.
Photographic film still offers the highest quality in photography. Its resolution cannot be surpassed by any digital camera today and in the next century. A standard 35 mm film (ISO 1007 - 135 film) with a dimension of 24mm x 36mm offers 255 Million Dots (known in the digital age as Mega Pixels or MP) which is based from Kodak's standard tests wherein film resolves at 550 line pairs per mm of image. The 255 MP value was computed as:
((26mm x 550) x (36mm x 550)) /1,024,000 = 255 MP
Compared to the highest resolution digital camera as of 07/16/2007 at 16.7 MP which is the Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II which cost ± $US 6,000.00 the digital camera is only 6.55% of the film's resolution. The film's authority can be appreciated in big applications such as wall size images and building size billboards to name a few. This is also the reason why movies still uses film because the highest digital resolution [cannot be appreciated when projected and expanded into the silver screen.
So there, unless digital can come up close to film in terms of resolution, then the latter is here to stay.
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