Digital photography, changing the world

Frank F. Matthews wrote:
Then again with digital you can do the processing at home and use the
lab to put the image on paper. All of the processing you describe can
be done before you sent the resulting images off for printing.

....if you've calibrated your system against the bureau's output device.

miguel
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Mxsmanic wrote:
Invariably, people who place a great deal of importance on whether an
image is "digital" or not tend to be angry young males who are more
concerned with gadgets than with actual photography. Additionally, they
are always people who haven't the slightest clue of what "digital"
actually means--because if they did know that, they'd realize how stupid
it is to call photography "digital" or "analog." All photography is
analog for capture and output.

My digital camera takes samples of the quantum states of the subject.

miguel
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Mxsmanic wrote:
Invariably, people who place a great deal of importance on whether an
image is "digital" or not tend to be angry young males who are more
concerned with gadgets than with actual photography. Additionally, they
are always people who haven't the slightest clue of what "digital"
actually means--because if they did know that, they'd realize how stupid
it is to call photography "digital" or "analog." All photography is
analog for capture and output.

My digital camera takes samples of the quantum states of the subject.

miguel
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Hit The Road! Photos from 32 countries on 5 continents: http://travel.u.nu

Miguel Cruz writes:

...if you've calibrated your system against the bureau's output device.

Even if you haven't. The labs are often predictably set.

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Miguel Cruz writes:

...if you've calibrated your system against the bureau's output device.

Even if you haven't. The labs are often predictably set.

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writes:

How long is it since negative film scanners became available that
produced acceptable results.

About 25 years or so.

Which make/model do you use?

Nikon, several models.

The image is stored internally in the camera in a digital format,
that's why it is referred to as digital.

Unfortunately, storing it digitally has absolutely no correlation with
the quality of the image, so the widespread assumption that digital =
quality is incorrect.

because digital camera resolution is too low?

And because digital camera image quality is too poor.

Not only that, digital cameras cost many times more than film cameras,
even though the results they produce are worse.

You appear to attach a great deal of importance to it yourself :-)

Not really. I do wish people would learn what the word actuall means,
though.

Output from and to where?

Anywhere. All image capture and image output (printing or display) is
analog.

Most people use the word digital because that is the word that the
manufacturers use. If it's good enough for them, it's good enough for
most people.

That's not good enough for me.

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writes:

How long is it since negative film scanners became available that
produced acceptable results.

About 25 years or so.

Which make/model do you use?

Nikon, several models.

The image is stored internally in the camera in a digital format,
that's why it is referred to as digital.

Unfortunately, storing it digitally has absolutely no correlation with
the quality of the image, so the widespread assumption that digital =
quality is incorrect.

because digital camera resolution is too low?

And because digital camera image quality is too poor.

Not only that, digital cameras cost many times more than film cameras,
even though the results they produce are worse.

You appear to attach a great deal of importance to it yourself :-)

Not really. I do wish people would learn what the word actuall means,
though.

Output from and to where?

Anywhere. All image capture and image output (printing or display) is
analog.

Most people use the word digital because that is the word that the
manufacturers use. If it's good enough for them, it's good enough for
most people.

That's not good enough for me.

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writes:

They recycle the silver released in processing, the silver the
customer gets is lost forever.

It isn't lost. The customer gets it.

But in color photography, all the silver is removed. Only
black-and-white photography retains silver.

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writes:

They recycle the silver released in processing, the silver the
customer gets is lost forever.

It isn't lost. The customer gets it.

But in color photography, all the silver is removed. Only
black-and-white photography retains silver.

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writes:

So in1979 you could get a negative scanned and the output was in a
digital format?

Yes, for printing purposes. Computers have been used for printing for
at least 30 years. I don't have an exact date for the start of scanning
for images, but I know it goes back more than 20 years.

New technologies aren't as new as people think. Flat-panel displays,
for example, have been around for at least forty years.

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