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 "

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Re:Consumer Cameras are REAL far off

[Xerithane]

What a load of crap. First, lets get one thing straight. You can be no more "semi-pro" than you can be "kind of pregnant". You either are or aren't.

Actually, I have to argue with the point you make here. It's important to the context of the article.

You see, they have any entire group of cameras named for these people. Prosumer, maybe you have heard of it. I don't know. I know a guy who can paint works that make Dali look horrible, but he isn't a painter. Nope, he makes coffee. He'll sell some of his work (for a rather large sum) only if he knows the person and knows they understand the meaning, and what it took for him to do it. He's a semi-pro painter. He paints, could easily support himself on it (If he sold his collection of his own work he'd probably make well over 6 figures) but he chooses not to, or at least only when he desires. That's where the "semi-" comes in.

It also comes in when someone does it as a part time job. It is not the profession, only a segment of it.

For a photographer to be semi-professional, it just means they do not do it as their primary source of income.