Posted by Gerald Boles Link: http://members.tripod.com/gerald_boles
on 2/11/2003, 7:22 pm, in reply to "Is My Digital Camera Decent?"
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Although I shoot both digitally, and with conventional film, each medium serves different purposes. Unless you get into a high end digital camera, the resolution and photo quality will suffer. Also, I am not a big fan of digital prints. Despite what the marketing people say, I believe your typical inkjet print, produced with dyes which are different from traditional photographic prints, do not have the same archival properties. They will fade in a shorter period of time. I am fully confident that these limitations will be overcome in years to come, but for now, it just isn't so. Digital photography, though, is PERFECT for images meant for reproduction on an offset press. I don't know why editors fight against digital images. I work in the printing industry, and know that an offset printing press needs the image to be broken down into dots in order to print. What better method than a digital camera? For prints, though, they are not yet up to par.
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