Lee Jones wrote:
> Scanned film picks up all 3 colors at each pixel location.  So it
> takes roughly 2-3 times the resolution of a digital sensor to match
> the _color_ capture capability of 35mm film -- my opinion is that
> 20'ish megapixel digital finally beats 35mm film.

Only sortof.  Film does record all three colors everywhere, but if you look
at a scan of film at 100 pixels/mm you will see noticeable grain.  If you
use finer grain film you decrease the sensitivity.  It seems to me that the
output of Nikon's 12Mpix sensor will be higher quality than a 100 pixel/mm
scan of a normal film.  In other words in film terms, the 12Mpix sensor has
better speed/grain tradeoff than ordinary film.


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