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I was still shooting film until late 2000, when I finally bit the bullet and purchased a Canon D30 Digital SLR, which was a camera I had been waiting for for a long time. It was the first "affordable" digital SLR that I could use with my existing collection of Canon lenses and accessories. Abandoning film has been a great experience so far; it has definitely been worth it because all of my photography needs can be fulfilled in the digital realm. - Material Setup -
I also use a few devices for image acquisition -- a firewire compact flash card reader, a Delkin Cardbus CF PC card reader, an inexpensive Canon flatbed scanner (for prints, etc.), and a Nikon Coolscan IV ED (for negatives and slides). I use an Epson Stylus Photo 2200 and Pictopia's lightjet printing to make prints. These are all hooked up to a separate, cheap machine, as I found that when I connected all my acquisition/output hardware to my main development machine, all hell broke loose. Computers are bad at controlling lots of peripherals at once. :) Image editing and publishing is done mostly on IBM Thinkpad T41p running Windows XP Professional, which isn't the best solution for color, but it's what I have to use since I'm on the road so much.
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interest in digital photography began in the Spring of 1998, when I took 
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have a weakness for photo equipment. I shoot with a Canon 1Ds dSLR, a Canon 1D Mk II dSLR, Canon SD10, a Canon D60 (modified for Copyright © Eric H Cheng. All Rights Reserved. [Terms of Use] [Referrers]
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FILM vs. DIGITAL | |
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I run into the occasional film snob, or a person who is generally skeptical
of digital imaging. I usually try to explain that digital imaging technology
has finally reached a point where it competes favorably against film (and even
surpasses it) in many areas. It normally just takes a nice print on photo paper
to convince someone that a digital camera can produce beautiful results. However,
if I sense extreme stubborness, I almost always stop arguing. What's the point?
The migration to digital imaging is inevitable -- it has already started --
and a whole new generation of kids are growing up used to the grainless look
of digital pictures. One of my friends always says, "Youth is king."
The unbelievers will die out, eventually. It doesn't really matter, though; what's really important is how you want to pursue the capture of images. I still like film, but I find it too complicated and inconvenient for my post-Y2K mentality of general impatience. Film still surpasses digital in many ways, but if we look forward more than a few years into the future...? I'll bet that film will be dead. |
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