Thursday, March 26, 2009

Digital image quality

A reader and customer wrote to me to comment that he thought one series (see this nude) had a particularly high image quality, and he was sure this was film, not digital.
But the funny thing is not only is it digital, it's from a Nikon D70, which was an entry-level DSLR camera, and the first generation entry-level DSLR to boot, so it's not even new.

Long story short: 6-7 years ago it was debatable if digital had surpassed film quality-wise, but not today, it has.

2 comments:

Joe said...

The advertisement slogan "Is it real or is it memorex" comes to mind.

It demonstrates the evolution of pictures from glass, paper, to digital.

Which one is better is in the eye of the observer.
Joe

Johnnie Walker said...

If it's on the internet even if it had been taken with a film camera it would have to be scanned in. That makes it next to impossible to tell. "In the flesh" it's a lot easier to tell if a photograph was taken with a digital or a film camera.