are you interested in photography ("he asked knowingly")

Quick list of what's in here?

Comparing 6 megapixels DSLR image quality VS 35mm film
Comparing 8 megapixels 20D image quality VS 35mm film
A comparison of my DSLR image quality VS large format 4x5 inch sheet film
A quick demonstration of the benefits of using RAW over JPG
Examining the how camera JPG makes your prints look noisy, and how using RAW will improve them.
Differences between RAW and JPG in Canon 20D
Discussion and examples of how pixel size and sensor size effect images and image quality
Advantages that compact cameras have are not found in SLR style cameras
How well a compact camera can work for you compared to a DSLR costing much more. Compacts can be great work horses.
using your digital camera in exposing your film rather than a spot meter, have 5 million spots :-)
issues with Epson scanners used to digitize your film
Naturally there is some musing about digital imaging in general

As well, I've started to put up several articles on my personal blog (to save space here, and for quicker / easier publishing). There you can find stuff like

testing epson flat bed scanners for linearity
looking at how we can improve (and if we can improve) Epson scanners with height adjustments
getting better colour from scans easier on the Epsons
some comparisons of HDRI and film.
even some things about using old "auto flash" on digital cameras

I've even got stuff about a couple of Bessa 120 6x9 film cameras up there too.

What is digital photography?

well in my opinion its any photography where the image becomes digital at some stage. For me this can be at any stage of the processing. Just to keep things in order I've got my general photography pages here.

People think that digital cameras are somehow different to film cameras,aside from the fact that a film camera produces an intermediate stage that can be used for a variety of applications (including storage and digitising).

All cameras share a common design, they have:

a lens which focuses light onto a surface
the ability to keep a 'copy' of that image

So, having said that up front, I only use 'non-digital' processes thesedays when I am contact printing (or the very rare 35mm black and white darkroom stuff).

As recently as 2004, people used to ask (with good reasons)"is digital as good as film?"

I think that the question is turned around these days, with (for most people)the valid question to ask being:

"can I get as good a result with film as a digital camera?"

Of course the answer to that is YES , but don't go out and buy a 35mm film camerainstead of a digital if you don't have any camera now.

Digital imaging has so much taken over photography that people don't seemto know even much about film anymore, and in some ways perhaps even about generalphotographic concepts. 5 mega pixel (MP) cameras giving reasonableresults for most people so why would anyone even use film these days?

Especially if you have a desire to get at your images soon after taking ,digital allows you to photograph what you want and get results up on themonitor in moments. Most cameras allow you to check the exposure onthe spot with blinking washed out highlights and histograms showingyou your exposure errors (for those who know what to do with them.

If I were able to afford it, I would probably get a camera that had a "fullframe" 35mm sensor, but in the meantime the "best camera"I have is the Canon 10D which has a smaller APS sized sensor. Since I have bothI recently decided that I should test the film capture camera with the 10D and see if I wanted to keep using the 35mm film camera.

While the 10D is a damn nice camera, I've decided that for travelling and hikingthat I get better milage out of a compact camera

There is lots more on the digital thoughts page