Tiger
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To get down to the nitty gritty, you're gonna have to read all of this 
http://photo.net/film-and-processing-forum/00ROOo
I think they are both invaluable formats now.
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John
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That's a lot of rubbish, the first reply to the link even states
No, he's a crackpot. Take his writings with large grains of salt. Much of what he says is tounge-in-cheek
It's been written for a laugh.
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Tiger
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Yeah, that 'ken rockwell' lot is, but there's like 'photographic scientists' about 200 odd posts in that go into loads of detail.
It come down to the fact that digital images are Binary and cellulose images are made by silver halide crystals / coloured emulsions and chromogenic dye couplers that are (almost) infinitly changeable.
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John
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You just increase the bit depth with binary, which may be less than some specialist stuff atm but you can't say it'll never be as good.
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Tiger
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Well, 'never' is too big a scope for anyone I guess. I think it's probably more accurate to say: "The tonal range of cellulose in the field of photography is greater than that of digital for the near and forseeable future, or, until a new and as yet unpublic technology surfaces"
Sorry to the original post as i've drifted way off topic.
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flybikeslee
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my first camera which 1st pic taken was with was the s5700, great starter camera, bout £100 aswell, can't go wrong with getting to know setting etc, then if you want something better down the line flog it and get a dslr 
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