Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/02

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica Quality versus Medium Format
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 12:13:30 -0400
 
> > I don't think that "digital" is a format, it would
> > rather be a medium as film.
>
> Well, film formats are distinguished by the size of the film
> image, so it would
> seem that digital counts as a separate format, as long as the CCD
> isn't the same
> size as a film frame (which it currently is not).  Digital would
> be pretty close
> to APS, I suppose.

It's a "qualifier" NOT a format.  35mm digital or 35mm film...  There are
many different types of digital too, as well as densities etc.  It is hardly
a "format".