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The resolution of digital cameras is limited by optical diffusion, not megapixel count, and since this applies just as much to film cameras your 2000dpi is irre
by unfamiliar 12y ago
The resolution of digital cameras is limited by optical diffusion, not megapixel count, and since this applies just as much to film cameras your 2000dpi is irrelevant.
- pandaman 12y agoDepth of field, though, is limited by the sensor's dimensions, which is drastically different between film and digital. A 35mm film equivalent digital camera is already a pretty expensive "full-frame", a mid-format digital cameras are available at the price of a mid-luxury car and large format digital is not available for a consumer at all.
- steve19 12y agodepth of field has nothing to do with sensor size, it's only related to focal length. the advantage of large/medium format is that longer focal lengths have a wider field of view than 35mm.
- pandaman 12y agoWell, I won't get into semantics fight and will concede this to you. Yet, you are still looking at the fact that you can take pictures with a film/glass camera that are either very expensive or impossible to take with a digital one. Specifically, you won't be able to get the same depth of field with the same composition of the frame for the reasons we both seem to understand.
- clord 12y agoDPI of final print, not the sensor. Large format cameras could even have larger DPI than an SLR and still get vastly better pictures. Large format CCDs exist, but are very expensive, and of course have different performance characteristics than film.
- foldr 12y agoIt'a limited by diffusion at this point for full frame sensors, but it would be possible to get more resolution from a larger sensor, which of corse is exactly what you get from large format film.