gyoung143 wrote: highdesertmesa wrote: bernardl wrote: Jack Flesher wrote:
I think a more significant reality is the changing world...
Digital is growing, with high-def displays replacing paper and ink for a lot of what people view. For the most part, video is growing more popular daily while still imagery wanes, mainly due to ease and convenience of creation and editing digitally. And current digital video can only be seen on a digital display of some form -- but then so can stills, and I suspect this is where the digital art world's "viewing medium" is headed...
Will paper and ink printing survive? Sure, but more for cards and wrapping paper and as a niche artistic medium much like silver, wet-plate or platinum photography is now; and any actual art paper will probably be used more for paint or pen than digitally printed artwork.
20 years ago after getting my first digital, 4mp DSLR, I predicted a similar death for silver film, stating Kodak would finally stop producing it's last remaining film, Tri-X, in 2022. Clearly I was wrong, but not by much -- you can still get Tri-X
This remind me of this article I wrote for LL in 2008... that was mistakenly attributed to Michael during a site migration... still need to have that corrected.
On the topic of DoF with APS-C offering more... yes I was having this argument in 2005 when I shot with my D2x vs 1Ds users... In the meantime we have Helicon focus and cameras do a fine job at automating the capture process, but a manual 5 shot DoF often works well enough for those images that benefit from a lot of DoF.
Cheers,
Bernard
Focus stacking is almost a guaranteed necessity for most 44x33 shots if one is after perfect foreground to background sharpness. That means IBIS can't save us from needing a tripod. That also means compositional limitations since the focus stacking software can't always merge complex foreground objects with a background at or near infinity. For example, try shooting a scene with a cactus or tree in the foreground that overlaps the mountains and sky in the background – it's just too complex and the end result is messy like early iPhone bokeh.
And more or less precludes anything moving in thr subject?
Although an early experiment I did with stitching 3 16mpx shots of a panorama including sheep did include the same sheep twice in the stitch. 😀
Gerry
I had the same issue once, what was the sheep’s name?
Cheers,
Bernard
Tilt will certainly NOT cope with a cactus in front of and distant view if the cactus is verical and fills anything like a good proportion of the frame height.
Gerry
Oct 02, 2025 at 07:17 AM
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In the meantime we have Helicon focus and cameras do a fine job at automating the capture process, but a manual 5 shot DoF often works well enough for those images that benefit from a lot of DoF.