I can appreciate many of his sentiments but he makes a lot of bold, and in my opinion, erroneous comments. For instance:
film is the only true fine art giving absolute creative control and ability
Really? I guess all those fine art digital shooters are fooling themselves.
At the end of the day the debate about film vs digital has become old and tired. Both offer different inherent qualities and processes, but neither on an absolute scale is better than the other. Their both great.
As for his process, first problem I have is he's pitted a medium format film camera vs smaller than full frame digital camera. I would like to see a digital medium format back, any digital medium format back for that matter, tested under the same scenario and see what the results are like. I also have issue with how he's processed those digital files. His conversion process is very obviously, at least to me, limiting what he's getting and is giving the viewers a distored view. A truely flat digital file is just that, flat, but it contains a lot of information that can be extracted if you know what you're doing. Those images that he's decided to show are far from flat and have had their curves manipulated.
