Originally posted by THX
I\'m sure you\'ll change your tune as things progress. Everything is going digital. Professional photographers are now saying they can\'t tell the difference between 32mm & a high-end DSLR. With D5 being all the buzz nowdays for Hollwood, and new movie theaters are built with digital projectors, it\'s just a matter of time before film seems ancient.
A top of the line DSLR camera have the same image sensor of a 35 mm film, that\'s why the difference is not that big when compare between the two. But the color depth, film still rocks in that area. But it looks like digital is catching up in that area, where usually most mid to low end cameras have 8 bits per channel, most top of the line have as many as 12 bits per channesl to 16 bits per channels.
But so far, a mid priced 35 mm film camera still have one advantage over 35 mm image sensor digital camera and that is can reproduce all the primary colors without filtering, hence revealing top notch detail without color smearing.
So far, I haven\'t seen a 35 mm image sensor digital camera that uses 3 Chips per image sensor yet. Biggest reason is the cost to make them. Its just a matter of time...
Its true some movie theaters are starting to replace film projector with digital video projector. The quality of some of those video projectors are amazing, like the 3 chips LCOS that have 3840 x 2160 resolutions. 4 times the resolution of even the highest defintion TV. And this year, I finally read 3 chips DLP 720p are coming out for consumers with a hefty price tag.
Sure for most parts, digital are improving and are starting to make analog obsolete. But the bandwidth and the speed to process those digital information is not there yet to compare to analog processing or film\'s quality.
Analog holds some advantages for now, but before you know it engineers will catch up & even surpass what we always regarded as top quality. [/B]
In many cases, it\'s better to use digital electronics part, but in some cases it better to process those digital signal into analog.
Look at plasmas for instance, it couldn\'t get the deep black of a CRT because the signal are process digitally, and for some strange reason, the black level doesn\'t go as deep had it been process in an analog fashion.
SED changes that by using the analog method of processing the electron emitters to igniting those phosphors. Not to mention SED only uses 1/3rd the power consumption compare to plasma of similiar size. Thanks to Canon for managing to achieve that.
