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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
While you can typically put a digital back on a view camera now, film is still useful in the field, and (afaik) the image quality from an 8x10 view camera with a good lens is far beyond what any digital camera can provide.
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Digital still has a large number of issues with architectural photography which are related to the basic technology involved in the sensors (basically, digital sensors have problems handling light rays which are not normal to the sensor plane, causing hue and exposure shifts, etc.). For the sort of resolution needed in these applications it's also massively (and I mean
massively) more expensive.
But back to books. The problems with ereaders at whatever price-point is that it's hard to see the value-proposition for those who don't read a lot. When you read a couple of books a week (or more) then being able to manage them digitally removes a lot of hassle. If you only read a book every couple of months then ereaders make no sense at all. Multi-function devices may be a route to pulling in new readers, but I don't think Kindle for the iPhone has exactly set the world on fire. At the end of the day it may need a generational-change to expand the market - get kids hooked on reading textbooks digitally and hope that this translates into them buying books for entertainment.