Digicam No Better than Polaroid?

Polaroid makes so many different films for use in so many different ways
that it's probably hard to generalize. I recently purchased some Polaroid 79
film for use in my 4x5 camera with my Polaroid film holder. Polaroid 79
(don't you just love Polaroid's totally unintuitve film designation system?)
is a 4x5 instant color film that is promoted by Polaroid for use by
professionals as a proofing film, the idea being that you use the film to
check for various things such as color balance, lighting, composition, etc.
and then make the "real" photograph with something else. The stuff is super
expensive - $70 for a box of 20 exposures - and the color balance is
horrible. The white walls in the room I was photographing came out as a sort
of yellowish green (yes, the film is daylight balanced and yes, the room was
lit only by daylight, no arificial lights). Anything would be better than
this.

Same here! I think the progress has been FABULOUS. You get a lot
better camera per dollar now than just a year ago. It's heating up fast.
figure 5 years for today's $5,000 Nikon D1 to be where the 950 is today. The
used camera market will be a whole new world!!

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It all depends on what type of polaroids we are talking about. The standard
polaroid cameras (like the one I have: the 635) are a load of crap. The
photos are very expensive and don??t look good at all. My Agfa 1680 produces
pictures that look a million times better than those polaroids. Really
beyond comparison.

Bill Mitchell < <01bf389e$664bdfe0$35eafcd1@78-KTV44>...

On 27 Nov 1999 06:12:26 GMT, "Bill Mitchell"

Bill that is pure BS. It was quite true 2 years ago but not now. I can
do photos with my CP950 where people can't believe at the quality on
paper. It is soo good that I always fool around some new friend
letting them believe that it is a new, 2000$ reflex that did that.
Note that I had Nikon reflex for 20 years, ONLY nikkor lenses etc.etc.
The DC290 has probably a little less resolution (honestly I don't
know) but I always heard good comments on Kodak digital in general.
For sure a Reflex can be better than any digital if you develop and
print the photos in a place with good quality. However 90% of the
printing places suck and you get back also horrible negatives.
I just can't wait to see what we will do in just 4 or 5 years from
now, with huge CCDs and even better printing technology.

Regards
Gabriele

I wonder what the resolution is for Polaroid cameras? I think that the
1024x768 images that I get out of my Agfa 1280 show more detail than I have
seen with standard polaroid prints. This might not hold true for their largest
formats but it does for the smaller image sizes.

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