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Photojournalistas.com |
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Slow Progression:
My Slow Transition From Film Cameras To Digital Cameras...And Why It's Taking So Long. By Lee K. Marriner |
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There are also a few other things film does that digital doesn’t. With film, all of your images are uncompressed and have a great deal more detail in them then most of the digital cameras out there. If there is a need to do a lot of cropping, film can usually handle it as long as the image is sharp and there isn’t too much grain. If you aren’t a pro and don’t work on deadlines, there should be not great urgency to hop on the digital bandwagon, especially if you already have high quality film cameras. The cost of film and the processing can add up, but I don’t think that cost comes anywhere close to the cost of keeping up with latest pro digital and prosumer digital cameras as they come out every year. This is especially true if you aren’t pro and don’t shoot often enough to justify the expense. There are also data storage and time issues associated with digital that cost more money, especially when working with RAW digital photos instead of a high quality JPEG image. I believe that within the next couple to three years, most of the things I like about my film cameras will be available in digital cameras. Until then, film still has a place my immediate future. I’ll use my digital cameras for shoots where digital makes the most sense, and negative film where it makes the most sense. When the race to see who can make the digital camera with the most megapixels and that shoots the most frames per second starts to wind down, I suspect that the manufacturers will start turn their attention more toward increasing dynamic range. When they start making digital cameras with the dynamic range of color negative film, I’ll probably join every one else in proclaiming film to be a thing of the past. That day is not here yet, therefore it makes more sense to use the format that is the greatest asset to your shoot. Do what’s right for you; and in the process try to avoid buying into a lot of one sided hype presented by those who have something to gain from pushing digital cameras, or are too excited by something relatively new to look at both sides of the coin. |
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