Digital Camera Quality Passing Film?

smartbit writes "Luminous Landscape writes in their Preliminary Field Report of the Canon 1Ds 11 Megapixel camera: 'the 1Ds produces the best combination of resolution, colour accuracy and low noise that I've yet seen in a digital camera. What about a comparison with both 35mm film and medium format? I'm afraid that film has definitively lost the battle. The 1Ds's full-frame 11MP CMOS sensor produces a 32MB file -- as big as a typical scan. But this file is sharper and more noise free than any scan I have ever seen, including drum scans. There simply isn't a contest any longer.' Kodak's Pro 14n list price is $5000 lower and uses a similar CMOS sensor supplied by Fillfactory "

Comments

Overpriced

[ari_j]

I simply can't afford to take good pictures, no matter the format. No, sir, I'll stick with my Brownie.

32MB pr0n

[Anonymous Coward]

Who wants to go halves on a T3?

bigger isn't always better..

[supernova87a]

11 megapixel may be nice, but it sure is a pain to have to buy a new hard drive for each photo album...

Re:FILM HANDS DOWN

[whizzard]

If you were on trial would you rather have a hard photo, or a digital photo?

heh... depends on whether I did it or not

But what about tasting the chemicals?

[docbrown42]

When I was in college, work in the Photo Lab, I knew a guy who could tell if a batch of photo chemicals was going bad by the taste (or so he claimed). With digital, you'd loose that wonderful, dangerous skill. What are you going to do, lick the Flash Card?

(DC, if you read this, get in touch man! It's been too many years...)

Re:Pros and Cons of digital

[BinxBolling]

Ten bucks'll get you three rolls of film. How much for that flash card?

How many times can you reuse those 3 rolls of film?

Re:Consumer Cameras are REAL far off

[Kythorn]

I liked the old nostalgia better.