You guys will get a kick out of this...

[LowriderS10]

The other day I was hanging out with a good friend of mine (a real estate agent I've shot commercially for) and we decided to go for a walk...I grabbed my AE-1P and off we went...as I was shooting, she asked me if that was the camera I used for work...to which I launched into a long explanation about how for work I use a pair of digital 30Ds, whereas this is an old film camera I shoot just for the fun of it...

After my long-winded explanation about how much fun film stuff is and how different they feel from digitals (she's into cars too, so I told her it's kind of like leaving your '08 Corolla home to drive a much slower, less comfortable, but infinitely more fun and quirky Model T)...she only had one question...

"So how many megapixels is it?"

 

[Christopher Walrath]

427 CJ

 

[j-dogg]

Is she hot? Details man. Download some science on that lady and get them digits.

and one day I will add an AE-1P to the stable, just looking for one locally that isn't 500 dollars. My father used to shoot one when he was my age, with the 50mm 1.8?

 

[fotch]

...... My father used to shoot one when he was my age, with the 50mm 1.8?

Statements like that will never happen in the digital age.

 

[MartinCrabtree]

I wouldn't say never. Rarely? Yes. Never? Next generation maybe.

 

[alistair.o]

"So how many megapixels is it?"

Was there a silence then?

 

[MartinCrabtree]

Most of the 35MM negs I have scanned when developed are around 16 MP. A few have been over 20.

 

[fotch]

The Nikon scanner has given me 68Meg negatives, which is way more than I need, however, really incredible image of Mr. Rainer.

 

[Ralph Javins]

Good morning, LowRiderS10;

It does seem that you, too, have encountered in our Pacific Northwest another "modern" photographer, or at least another person with a passing interest in modern photographic equipment. May I refer them to my signature line? . . .

 

[Sirius Glass]

I don' t mess with them nasty pixels. I store my photographs on the molecular level using the latest in nanotechnology.

Steve

 

[davela]

OK, so how many is it?

 

[bdial]

OK, so how many is it?

Lots of them.

 

[2F/2F]

Yikes O'Malley! What is wrong with her?

Well, if she asks again, you could say that theoretically, a max of about 24 MPix with a 4,000 ppi home scanner (file about 4,000 by 8,000 pix), and about 96 MPix by paying a lab to scan the film with an 8,000 ppi professional scanner (file about 8,000 by 12,000 pix). In practice, I've never scanned anything to make files that large, nor have I ever had a computer capable of working on such monster files regularly.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Yikes O'Malley! What is wrong with her?

Well, if she asks again, you could say that theoretically, a max of about 24 MPix with a 4,000 ppi home scanner (file about 4,000 by 8,000 pix), and about 96 MPix by paying a lab to scan the film with an 8,000 ppi professional scanner (file about 8,000 by 12,000 pix). In practice, I've never scanned anything to make files that large, nor have I ever had a computer capable of working on such monster files regularly.

As you said for:
35mm 24 Megapixels with home scanner, 96 Megapixels with a professional scanner.
6x6 56 Megapixels with home scanner, 310 Megapixels with a professional scanner.
4x5 320 Megapixels with home scanner, 1.28 Gigapixels with a professional scanner.


Steve

 

[darinwc]

Good manners:

You never ask a Lady how many pixels she is.

 

[dmr]

"So how many megapixels is it?"

I love to have fun with the self-centered know-it-all naive clueless digicam snobs when they ask questions such as that.

I tell them that is uses a high-tech photochemical sensor which renders between 15 and 25 megapixels depending on the exact sensor I am using at the time.

I watch them drool a bit and let them know that the sensor is field-interchangeable and upgradeable by the user.

When I tell them that replacement sensors are sold at any corner drug store, they start to catch on ...

 

[Sirius Glass]

I love to have fun with the self-centered know-it-all naive clueless digicam snobs when they ask questions such as that.

I tell them that is uses a high-tech photochemical sensor which renders between 15 and 25 megapixels depending on the exact sensor I am using at the time.

I watch them drool a bit and let them know that the sensor is field-interchangeable and upgradeable by the user.

When I tell them that replacement sensors are sold at any corner drug store, they start to catch on ...

ROTFLMAO!!!

 

[E76]

I love to have fun with the self-centered know-it-all naive clueless digicam snobs when they ask questions such as that.

I tell them that is uses a high-tech photochemical sensor which renders between 15 and 25 megapixels depending on the exact sensor I am using at the time.

I watch them drool a bit and let them know that the sensor is field-interchangeable and upgradeable by the user.

When I tell them that replacement sensors are sold at any corner drug store, they start to catch on ...

Tim Parkin gave a presentation where he "explain[ed] the large format camera in terms of digital cameras," much like you did, and received a similar type of response!

 

[Chriscc123]

i love this place... but every time i tell i tell someone i shoot film they just say "i thought film was dead".... -_-