Digital Photography Deals One More Blow to Traditional Film

According to the Hollywood Reporter in Los Angeles, Imax is going Digital.

It seems a never ending battle between the traditionalist and new technology. As Photography geeks we have spent many hours in the darkroom and have appreciated the subtleties of pushing a half stop or dodging and burning a print. Film had always had a finer detail and depth than digital especially at the low ASA's.

When digital caught up in resolution and color we grasped at Medium format film which allowed immense enlargements without an ounce of image degradation. But today even that argument has been dealt a blow by perhaps the widest user of medium format film in the world, as their 70mm film cells pass through their cameras at 24 frames per second.

Imax will begin it's switch from Film projection to Digital projection in it's 296 theaters in 40 countries next month. Photography has changed some time ago perhaps for the better. But many of us still hit the streets with a Nikon FM-2 loaded with E-6 Slide Film. Then we scan it into Photoshop to crop it and adjust the levels. There's nothing wrong with that. Is there?

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