Digital Outback Fine Art Photography Handbook

Steinmueller B., Steinmueller U.

What is this book about? We share our experience in using digital SLRs for fine art photography. We will not get into such questions as “Isn’t Film better than digital?”. This might be a valid question if you want to decide to go the full digital path. We had made the decision 2 years ago. The only question for us is “How can I get the most out of our digital cameras” and of course we are convinced that we are capable to produce Fine Art photos. At the time of this writing (April 2002) in many areas film still might get better ultimate results than digital cameras (except the BetterLight scanning back which seems to beat 4×5″ film but cannot capture moving objects). This gap gets closer every year and if the Foveon technology succeeds then digital will surpass film also using digital SLRs.What does the term Fine Art mean in this context? These are photos, which are printed and presented in a way that buyers like to decorate their homes, galleries to offer them and they even might end up in a museum.