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Originally Posted by cadre
I think it will be quite some time before readily available digital cameras (meaning not the thousand dollar cameras for science and such) will surpass medium format film and even longer for 8x10 film.
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While attending school, one of my instructors, with whom I'd been sharing photograph, tips, etc., suggested I continue learning by going to his professor's photography classes to learn all about film. Supposedly, the professor was a leading expert in photography.
I contacted the man, asked about classes, what I wanted to take, etc., and gave him a link to the work I had. His response was(not verbatim), "Don't bother wasting your money. Film is a dying craft with nothing to offer besides being a personal preference. Digital photography will surpass film and because of its immediacy, is preferred in almost in every field of photography." He continued to suggest I further my studies with digital. My instructor was shocked.
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Originally Posted by Daemon1313
I would tend to agree but with the rate we are accelerating the technology going into digital camers we all may be suprised.
So would you put the Hasselblad H3D-39 into that category. 39 megapixels of love for only $30,000+. But then again, a little over 10 years ago the Kodak DCS460 was running $12,000, not bad for a 6 megapixel camera.
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Our first digital camera was an HP 4mp, bought in 2000 for $600; the selection of cameras at the time, mostly Kodaks, ranged from 1.3mp for about $200 to a whopping 6.0, outrageously priced. The quality of the HP generally sucks, it doesn't have much in the way of setting choices and no shutter or aperature options. In the same amount of time, the choices of middle-range 35mm cameras has gone from a seemingly endless array in any store to maybe 2.