Move to Digital?

[rolf_strasheim]

As digital continues to improve - Canon D60, Kodak 760, Nikon D100, how long until digital quality eclipses 6x7?<p>It seems that the future of digital is based around 35mm bodies.<p>Ideas, comments, general musings?

[jeff_drew4]

You may want to check out April's Shutterbug. To switch or not to

switch? Considering the technology of digital advances significantly

every 12-18 months, your guess is as good as any. A quality, 6x7cm

format film image, enlarges very well and offers murals at excellent

quality. To my knowledge, digital does not offer this quality without

a lot of help and additional processes. I think I'll wait a while.

[ed_hurst]

However good digi images become based on a 35mm body, it could always

be better if based on a P67II body (all other things being equal).

Shame Pentax don't seem to be offering this - perhaps as an

alternative back like the Polaroid back. I'd look into it if it came

along...

[rolf_strasheim]

I agree with Ed that a Pentax 6x7 digital solution would be the best

of both worlds, but given the fact that they pulled the plug on their

6MP camera, I think it's a pipe dream.<p>Regarding mural sized prints

from digital, Kodak can already achieve this with their DCS ProBack

which you can slap on the back of a Hasselblad.

[tom_gorman]

As I understand it, even the digital backs for medium format cameras

only use a chip the size of a 35mm frame, so for now, unless you're

doing very high-end studio work and need a 4x5 and multi-pass digital

back it seems like 35mm digital is the way to go. I've read about a

new chip that was recently announced and will first appear on a Sigma

(!?!) camera soon. A NYTimes article was touting this as being a big

revolution in digital chips, giving twice the resolution/info for a

given megapixel size. The maker of the chip is a pretty small company,

and is up against a big Japanese maker and European maker, so whether

any other digital camera makers pick up on it remains to be seen.

 

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Now a 6x7 sized chip like that in a Pentax 67 II.... ah, that would be

nice. And no fiddly film spooling!