Assuming that price is not an issue, and what are the reasons which stop you from getting a DSLR?
How about the better longevity of storage, stability of storage (not having to constantly upgrade to constantly evolving storage "standards"), and better highlight detail of slides? Not enough? How about the fact that you can get a better digital image scanning from a slide then shooting with a DSLR? If you do stock photography, being able to offer your customers the option of a digital image or physical image. If you are a fine art photog, the monetary and quality value of a hand-printed B&W print or a cibachrome print made from tranny is much greater then that of something made off an injet, which still doesn't have the proof of time behind it like B&W or the color quality of a cibachrome. I can see some uses for digital right now...learners, pjs, techies, and in situations when fast turnaround outweighs the arguments above, like shooting events or weddings...Originally posted by Wolfgang
is $$$ isn't an issue, i can't think of a reason why i don't want one.
Originally posted by ckiang
Assuming that price is not an issue, and what are the reasons which stop you from getting a DSLR?
Originally posted by OpenLens
How about the better longevity of storage, stability of storage (not having to constantly upgrade to constantly evolving storage "standards"), and better highlight detail of slides?
Everything deteriorates, the burnable plastic emultion on a CD-R as much as the plastic of of neg/pos. Both degrade through regular use...although a scratch on a slide can be repaired digitally while a scratch on a CD-R may make the entirety of the data on it unreadable. But, assuming that your CD-Rs or Zip disks or MO disks and my slides are stored in a vaccum for 5000 years, I gurantee you that I will still be able to visually review my images. It might be difficult to do so with a CD-R. What I was referring to is that there is, and always will be, paradim shifts in technology that will require re-investments, time to migrate your images, etc....early macnetic storage mediums are not compatable with later higer-storage density magnetic storage mediums. Knowing some of what is being worked on for the next generation of optical storage (like doped crystal), current CD-Rs and DVD-Rs will be useless.Assuming you store your digital pictures intelligently, your digital photos will never deteriorate. You get the same quality 5000 years down the road you get today, ceteris paribus.
When the technoligy is there, I will be able to re-scan and pull every single crystal of detail out of a slide I take today while any image you take today is "digital quality frozen".
But, assuming that your CD-Rs or Zip disks or MO disks and my slides are stored in a vaccum for 5000 years, I gurantee you that I will still be able to visually review my images. It might be difficult to do so with a CD-R.