Does Digital Photography Mean Digital Cameras?
At the outset, lets get rid of the issue of digital cameras at the outset. For anyone wishing to do more than low-grade snapshots, nothing available today below about $25,000 is of interest. This will change quite dramatically over the next few years, but for now, other than for the needs of folks like real-estate agents and quick-and-dirty web publishing, consumer digital cameras don t interest us. Already though, high-end digital backs for medium and view cameras are used extensively in advertising and catalogue work. Look at the glossy mail-order catalogues on your coffee table. Most were produced without a roll of film ever having been exposed to light. This being the province of the computer chip industry Moore s Law tells us that every 18 months costs will half and performance will double, so don t be too complacent. There is a digital camera in our collective futures, eventually. This is a good time though to consider that virtually all images that we now see in print have been
