Beauty and Fragility. Large format landscape photography
By Terence Bunch,
Tuesday, 5 August, 2025.
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Looking at the whole and bigger picture, the issue seems to stem from the limitations of the modern computer, a common consumer grade computer is limited to 64 bit parity with a non paging memory access range of 2^64 – 1, but which is limited quite severely by sizes of modern volatile memory, so the limit of volatile memory when accessing solid state memory isn’t practical enough to comfortably work on the kinds of file sizes the higher quality film routinely addresses. We estimate that digital would need to routinely use sensor sizes at least 20 times the current availability to begin to have some parity in quality terms, making digital very difficult to use in any practical form.
In addition the archival permanence of film versus digital has never had any parity, even 30 years after the first introduction of consumer grade digital camera technology the issue of archival permanence of digital has no coherent placement, and has barely moved even a single inch toward a usable state since its foundation.
There is no argument here, film is superior to digital.
