A few important points about digital imaging today:
- the quality of the cameras AND the printing exceeds film and paper today. This is not some sign of the future, this is the present. Professional-level digitalSLRs are rivaling cameras larger than 35mm already.
- the RAW data from a camera is effectively B&W and could be converted directly into B&W images if someone built a convertor for it... not a bad idea really.
- B&W imaging is NOT going away. It has gone digital. Epson (and other) inkjets when equiped with quadtone inks (multiple shades of gray and sometimes other tint colors) exceed even the high quality platinum prints done in years past. There is some amazing work being done today in B&W. If anything the digital conversion has given the industry a rebirth.
Silver halid is indeed dead. Yes people will continue to buy it and it will be made in smaller and smaller batches but for all intents and purposes put a fork in it... it's done.
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A few important points about digital imaging today: - the quality of the cameras AND the printing exceeds film and paper today. This is not some sign of the future, this is the present. Professional-level digitalSLRs are rivaling cameras larger than 35mm already. - the RAW data from a camera is effectively B&W and could be converted directly into B&W images if someone built a convertor for it... not a bad idea really. - B&W imaging is NOT going away. It has gone digital. Epson (and other) inkjets when equiped with quadtone inks (multiple shades of gray and sometimes other tint colors) exceed even the high quality platinum prints done in years past. There is some amazing work being done today in B&W. If anything the digital conversion has given the industry a rebirth. Silver halid is indeed dead. Yes people will continue to buy it and it will be made in smaller and smaller batches but for all intents and purposes put a fork in it... it's done.