So, If Film Is Dead...

So Adobe has just released the Lightroom 3 Beta. Better performance, new features, yada yada yada. Whatever: the thing that made me download, install, and run it immediately was one particular new feature: film grain simulation.

This feature is the only thing I've tried so far with the new Lightroom. It's not bad. It's not Tri-X, by a wide margin, but for digital, it's not bad.

But it amuses me to no end – all these years, all this technology, all the mind-numbingly powerful computers, all to finally simulate film grain. I'll tell you a secret: I can do this better, and cheaper, already.

Nice to see digital starting to catch up, though.