delboyo opened this issue on Apr 06, 2003 ยท 14 posts
Rork1973 posted Sun, 06 April 2003 at 7:49 AM
I guess it depends on who's using the equipment and who's looking at the results ;) But technically speaking: no, never ever. The old discussion were mostly about which is better, easier, etc, but purely from a technical point of view, it's not possible. Although I don't honestly think that companies like Nikon or Cannon are actually spending millions in development to get digital cameras that are exactly the same as analog cameras. That IS a very big misunderstanding. Photojournalists or movie directors on a low budget that need to do a lot of post production are more likely to go digital than others. The difference is mostly that they want to trade some quality for speed. But uhmmm, the little low light photography tutorial I wrote together with Alpha some time ago makes some points about the influence of different kinds of lights on film. That's just not possible with digital equipment, simply because it's not a feature of film, but a failure of film (long exposure times make great pictures, but that not a man made feature).