Forget Digital

I'm going back to Film.

Check out this image, taken with a cheap Olympus Trip 35, like what I had when I was in shorts all day, every day.

Got it from (guess, go on, guess) Ebay for a song, stuck some Fuji print film in it and went out shootin'. You can blame this man for me even bothering. Got the developed prints back today, along with a CD of the shots scanned at low-res. Thing is, you can see the limits of the scanning process before you can see the limits of the picture quality - at least in my opinion here.

Now fast forward to the year 2025, when image scanning technology has progressed yet further and you can get a home scanner that'll hit 16000 dpi without breaking sweat - by then I also reckon GIF and JPEG will have become obsolete, there'll be some fancier, schmancier image format, and you'll have had to convert your old RAWs and JPEGs into the new format just to look at them, which will only serve to reveal the limitation of the original capture process, and depress you that your image master was got at such 'low' resolution (I don't know, perhaps you only had a Canon 5d :-)

I've just bought a Nikon F100 (we all know where) at a good price and am looking foward to using my Nikon D40 as a 'dummy' for those shots that I'll actually want to save indefinitely and therefore snap onto slide film.