*all* the professional photogs I know still use film who do you know and what's their specialties? Am I on trial here or something? Sorta, kenji is a pro and uses mostly digital. You don't need hi - res for newdies... Your photographer acquaintances make their livings on photography and their speciality is nude work? Who do you know?

kenji < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it wrote in message Here's a factoid for you: more than 90 percent of the product photography all around you...newspapers, magazine ads, catalogs are all shot digitally now. I recall that there was a complaint about digital sometime back.  That digital didn't have _layer_s as it were and produced images that didn't have the same nuances as film. Is this bunkum nowadays, or was it even an issue? For the majority of commercial photography what you are describing isn't an issue. The problem is the content creator's lack of technical knowledge.

kenji < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it wrote in message Here's a factoid for you: more than 90 percent of the product photography all around you...newspapers, magazine ads, catalogs are all shot digitally now. I recall that there was a complaint about digital sometime back.  That digital didn't have _layer_s as it were and produced images that didn't have the same nuances as film. Is this bunkum nowadays, or was it even an issue? For the majority of commercial photography what you are describing isn't an issue. The problem is the content creator's lack of technical knowledge. IE how to set an F-stop and check lighting?

Film? Who's still using that for the majority of work? the reason for the falloff in film sales is because casual picture takers started switching to digital photography.  big benz imagines that professional photographers still do most of their work using film. is there anything in digital photography which is comparable to, say, iso 25 film (in terms of resolution)? What's still available at that speed? Nothing these days unless you can find some old Kodachrome that's still good. Besides, Kodak only has one lab processing Kodachrome. However, with Greg Morrow's statement, Nope...and there NEVER will be...film still blows away digital imaging quality - wise and will for the forseeable future... You couldn't be more wrong. It's true that there will probably, and I say probably, always be film, digital is pretty darn near it's equivalent in the pro world. Pro's shoot digital because of the workflow after the photo's shot. Time is money. What has changed is that the photographer now costs more, but they do more of the post process after the photo is taken. Digital, in the pro world (unless you're competing on price and/or leaving money on the table) is more expensive than traditional film. if you think pros are still wedded to film, you know a far different class of pro photographer than I have. And who I've known goes up to the best in town including the name boys. Did I forget to mention that Kenji nailed it too. Btw, short of printing 80 x 108 murals(and even then sometimes) I'd bet if I gave you two 16 x 20 prints, one digital(done right by a good craftsman/artist) and one film done equally well, you'd be hard pressed to tell one from the other. Virtually all the news photos are digital today. As Kenji said with product photos, probably 95% or better are digital. Do you see Sears Sunday ads-Digital. Kohls-Digital and so are others both with people/fashion, product and  large goods and off-figure soft goods. For that matter even fine-art phototgraphy is going digital.Personally, I'm wondering how long Kodak can continue making the numbers and variety of films that they do just because so many folks are going digital. This year, for the first time digital cameras outsold traditional film cameras. What I think is driving this is that now, many folks can go to any number of places and get their digital mem card printed for the same price as film. Walgreens, Sams, Costco, Ritz and numerous others. Lots of folks have trouble printing their digital stuff so this has become attractive since the price is right. Today you can get those prints on Fuji Crystal Archive paper, the best that's out there so longevity is no problem.

Besides, Kodak only has one lab processing Kodachrome. Yeah. It's not even a Kodak lab. The last Kodak lab processeing Kodachrome was Fair Lawn, NJ. That closed a few weeks ago and they decided not to install the Kodachrome finishing line in another lab. But film is still routed to the outside lab if a Kodak envelope or mailer is used.

Who do you know? I'm tawkin' to Y - O - U, dewd...!!!