Digital Camera Quality Passing Film?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday October 4, 2002 @06:48AM from the and-it-costs-your-first-born-son dept.

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 "

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Overpriced by ari_j · 2002-10-04 06:51 · Score: 5, Funny

I simply can't afford to take good pictures, no matter the format. No, sir, I'll stick with my Brownie.
bigger isn't always better.. by supernova87a · 2002-10-04 07:02 · Score: 5, Funny

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 by whizzard · 2002-10-04 07:13 · Score: 5, Funny

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