Forum: Photography


Subject: Digital vs. Regular photography

jks opened this issue on Aug 28, 2001 ยท 14 posts


jks posted Wed, 29 August 2001 at 7:52 PM

Well, for starters, I really only intend to do scenery and poses, which I believe will be easily covered by digital. My one concern was print-out. I've seen plenty of digital cameras on the market w/ a huge resolution maximum, and although I haven't done the math yet to figure out what resolution is reasonable (it'll only take a few seconds to do, so I keep putting it off), I heard that if you want extremely high print-quality on photo paper, you'll have to set the dpi/ppi (same thing, really, but depending on program used, the acronym changes) to around 300dpi. That means I'd have to have really large pictures so they don't print really small. Not that this would be a problem, as most images are good to be increased in size by 50% of the original when using smart sizing capabilities without losing too much quality (although a little detail). And with film you can print at pretty much any size you want and still have a crisp picture. So my main concern is print-out. Other than that, I'm leaning towards digital for ease of use. Any information on the print-out area would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for the info & opinions thus far. ~JKS