Can Digital output film quality?

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Hi, I am a professional photographer working for a web based co. We have been shooting ( all NIKON accessories )on 35mm TPs, (sensia) and Sitex scanning them for further processing. Can anybody tell me, what all digital cameras are available with same quality of output as a film, Which mainly can be used in studio with artifical lighting ( Elyn ProlynCrome 23 etc). Any related www links???

-- Shreepad (middlegray@hotmail.com), July 02, 2000

Answers

It depends on how much you can afford. High-end Leaf/Scitex multi-pass cameras that are used for studio catalog work will set you back well over $20,000, but will give you 100+ megapixel images--comparable to a 4x5 neg or chrome.

The high-end prosumer cameras, like the Nikon Coolpix 990 or the Nikon D1, will give you 3.3 megapixel images at best, which might be good enough for an acceptable 8x10 print or for magazine reproduction if you keep the image relatively small. Keep in mind that the average 35mm slide has the equivalent of over 28 megapixels of information. Currently, there is nothing in the under-$5000 range that comes close.

Check out Steve's Digicams (www.steves-digicams.com) for more info.

~mason

-- Mason Resnick (bwworld@mindspring.com), July 02, 2000.


At the newspaper where I worked until recently we had the $14,000 Nikon N90S with Kodak NC2,000E digital cameras and the quality was very good but no digital image is, as of yet, as good as film. I currently work as a "digital imaging specialist" at a national magazine and we have the top of the line digital cameras. We still shoot all our covers on film because the digital cameras just aren't as good.

-- Joe Cole (jcole@apha.com), July 05, 2000.

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