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In Reply to: Re: Better? What's better? posted by caa on May 18, 2002 at 18:29:46:

Certainly there probably are people who believe that, but there are also people who believe MP3 is equivalent to CD and LP. The resolution just isn't there, it's still at a fraction of it.
Doug Schneider

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Re: Better? What's better? - caa 23:00:47 05/18/02 (4)
its naive to simply make analogies. The person who makes the comparision is quite an accomplished photographer, judging his photographs. A 6 Megapixel file has more than half of the full resolution of a 35mm file, but this gap should be closed soon; not to mention resolution is the easiest parameter to improve.
After all, its the question of "show me your equipments", vs "great rack now me show your pictures/music".
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- Stop talking about things you don't understand! - alext 14:56:25 05/20/02 (0)
  It's obvious that you have no idea what you are talking about and neither does the "expert" that you reference.
- Re: Better? What's better? - Doug Schneider 11:22:53 05/19/02 (0)
  Right...and I read it, but it's still far off. Someone today can look at a digital photograph and see something quite good. Untrained eyes might say it's the same. 1/2 the resolution is not really close at all to me so we're probably just disagreeing on the choice of words.
  Doug Schneider
- Re: Better? What's better? - Analog Scott 10:27:41 05/19/02 (1)
  There is alot more to this issues than just pixels. The comparison between film pixels and digital pixels is a coparison between apples and oranges and rotten apples at that. Film pixes are far more random in nature. They vary in size shape and placement. This is not the case for digital pixels. This is an issue in still photography. In motion picture quality it is a huge issue. The randomnes of the pixels in film create an effect of oversampling at 24 frames per second. The digital pixels never vary so you get no oversampling effect. The gap between digital and film in motion pictures is not close to being closed.
  - Re: Better? What's better? - Doug Schneider 11:23:54 05/19/02 (0)
    You've hit upon something very important here and something I've been thinking about for some time -- the randomness of real film vs. the linearity of digital.
    Doug Schneider

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