I just happened to be glancing through the review section of Saturdays Daily Telegraph when I read an amusing review for the new Nikon D700. The bit that caught my eye was.
"Nikon has effectively replaced the SLR's traditional film back with CMOS digital sensor that is the same size. As a result, your photos look alot more like old style film pictures- sharper and more vibrant"
If that is not an admission that digital photography quality is poor and a manufacturer is coming out and saying as much then I don't know what is. But why are they trying to invent the wheel, don't they know someone already did. Highly amusing all the same
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"The Future is not what it used to be"
Everyone I know whose photographed professionally in the film days, and made the switch to digital due to our clients needs, will admit that till now digital has not match film.
The high end "full frame" sensors have nearly match, and soon in the not so distant future will surpass what film is able to record. My statement doesn't mean I don't like film, because I do. Many people are writing Photoshop actions to give a 'film look and feel' to digital files right now.
Just as there is still room for tintypes and wet plate photography, there will be room for modern film along side the digital technology that can not be stopped.
Nikon is only acknowledging what is known. I've never shot video, I teach B&W film photography on the college level, and when I do shoot digital for my clients, I have never thought any differently with a digital camera verses my film camera when solving the photographic problems a job offers.
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Personally, sounds like a poorly written review aimed at people who don't know much about cameras. Doesn't sound like it came from a camera mag. Would you buy a camera based on a review from Consumer Reports?
It says nothing more than that the writer is a moron, and doesn't know the front end of a camera from the back end, digital or film. Things like this reflect poorly on photography as a whole.
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The industry has re-invented the wheel Kenneth so they can keep selling photographic equipment in an already saturated market, like the car industry does with this years must have model, and the record industry did with CDs.
Kenneth, as I don't think has been pointed out yet, the text you quoted reads like a really stupid press release, written by a stupid and ignorant advertising copywriter and copied word for word by an equally stupid and ignorant reporter. I've worked with such types in both fields, they really exist.
Anyway, that there are idiots says nothing about digital technology. If you want calm rational discussions of what can and can't be accomplished with digital, look on the French large format forum.
Ben, what did the recording industry do with CDs? I ask because I have more than one CD of the same classical piece and can tell you with a straight face that all the "duplicates" I have are worth having. People have been questioning the need for, e.g., one more recorded performance of a warhorse, e.g., Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, for decades. And for decades the incremental recording has sold ... One could equally well question why old recordings are resurrected. But then, I recently bought one such, the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas as recorded in the mid-50s by the French pianist Yves Nat and don't feel that I wasted my money. Try the set, you might like it.
What does this say about digital technology? 
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