Thanks for all the replies. It's been a very interesting time for me recently, looking through the slides I took in pre-*ist D days. That came out in 2003 (I think), and from the article on digital v film in 2008, we had at that stage reached the same 'quality of image' as film. So 7 years on in 2015, everyone should consider that film is of the past in every respect.
Not one of you said so. I also have looked at images taken and enlarged made with DSLRs built before 2010 and been mightily impressed. That, in great part is down to the photographer of course, regardless of media. Now for me, digital photography means I get to take the pictures as I always did, but now get I do the darkroom bit as well without the inconvenience of having lots of chemicals, equipment and a dark room. It also means I can deal with exposure issues - but those who shot film and developed it themselves could deal with that too. I see cameras being launched with larger and larger sensors, to record greater and greater detail, which therefore entails the use of better and newer lenses to capture this greater detail, and it seems an arms race to nowhere, as they still aren't 'better' than enlargements made from film shot with 30 year old glass. I just have this nagging feeling that I'm being pushed to buy products which fill a need that doesn't exist. Now for many people, especially professional photographers, digital (DSLR/'Phone/CSC/whatever) is a way of taking the images and instantly passing them on to press/Twitter/Facebook etc and immediate publication has become part of society's expectation of this technology. As a hobbyist photographer, I can't help thinking that the K3 is - in real terms - as good as I need it to get digital image quality at this price point, with the lenses I have (or are currently) available. I don't feel film is in anyway dead, 12 years after the launch of a Pentax digital camera, and if anything, I'm more tempted to find where I can buy film and get a film body rather than join the digital arms race. The new FF camera is an LX. Is more really better? Hmm. Malcolm (Heretic) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
