Frankly
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I know it strains the comparison and reflects a touch of mental illness but looking back at my early digital photos made with the 6mp D70 and then 12mp D80-D200-D2x I do indeed wish I had either used film or waited for a higher resolution and bit-depth camera. Not that the old photos are horrible but if I had made them with current equipment they'd have been so much better. Or if I had played it straight and simply shot 35mm film I could better accept their limitations.
It's the same sort of thinking that would have you go back and reshoot with 8x10 Portra 160 (not 400!) and get $1000 Castor Scans of each sheet....
(My experience is that carrying multiple lenses is what turns a compact camera into a burden, if you can somehow rectify yourself into believing in one lens then even the largest camera becomes fairly easy to manage, especially handheld. I would love a 100mp P1 with a normal prime for at least a couple of years!)
The funny part is that when I got the D2x, $5000, I was so impressed with it and swore it was the ultimate, blah blah blah.... Now I equate those old files with phone photos, old point and shoots, still shots from my Mavic drone, low end stuff.
I understand that digital photography is plateauing and there isn't much point in more resolution for 99.9999% of applications but I wonder how we'll feel in a few years?
It's the same sort of thinking that would have you go back and reshoot with 8x10 Portra 160 (not 400!) and get $1000 Castor Scans of each sheet....
(My experience is that carrying multiple lenses is what turns a compact camera into a burden, if you can somehow rectify yourself into believing in one lens then even the largest camera becomes fairly easy to manage, especially handheld. I would love a 100mp P1 with a normal prime for at least a couple of years!)
The funny part is that when I got the D2x, $5000, I was so impressed with it and swore it was the ultimate, blah blah blah.... Now I equate those old files with phone photos, old point and shoots, still shots from my Mavic drone, low end stuff.
I understand that digital photography is plateauing and there isn't much point in more resolution for 99.9999% of applications but I wonder how we'll feel in a few years?
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