Digital Photography vs. Film
I have been taking pictures for more than a half a century. When I started you didn't even have a light meter on the camera. Everything was manual. I even used to have a darkroom in my house.
Up until just a very few years ago the resolution in digital photography sucked if you wanted to enlarge much above 8”x10”/A4. But now even with little cheap point and shoot cameras you have sufficient resolution to enlarge bigger than is reasonable. Which means that you have enough to crop a little. In the bad old days you could adjust shutter speed and aperture. When you put in the next roll of film you could change ASA/ISO to more or less light sensitive film. This is now immediately changeable as is white balance. All can even be adjusted automatically and essentially instantaneously.
With a good digital SLR which has a quality lens mounted on it, one can take truly first class pictures. And you can easily shoot the equivalent of several 36 shot rolls of 35mm film just while you are out walking the dog. When you get home you simply upload them to the computer and delete most, or sometimes all of them. Through quantity comes quality.
And the software available now like Photoshop is incredible.
It would seem like bragging if I admitted just how many film cameras I own, but it is far more than I can count on my fingers and toes. Both medium format and 35mm. But now they are just beautiful reminders of another bygone era. For 99.9% of all photography, the benefits of digital photograph far outweigh the benefits of using film and chemicals.
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Up until just a very few years ago the resolution in digital photography sucked if you wanted to enlarge much above 8”x10”/A4. But now even with little cheap point and shoot cameras you have sufficient resolution to enlarge bigger than is reasonable. Which means that you have enough to crop a little. In the bad old days you could adjust shutter speed and aperture. When you put in the next roll of film you could change ASA/ISO to more or less light sensitive film. This is now immediately changeable as is white balance. All can even be adjusted automatically and essentially instantaneously.
With a good digital SLR which has a quality lens mounted on it, one can take truly first class pictures. And you can easily shoot the equivalent of several 36 shot rolls of 35mm film just while you are out walking the dog. When you get home you simply upload them to the computer and delete most, or sometimes all of them. Through quantity comes quality.
And the software available now like Photoshop is incredible.
It would seem like bragging if I admitted just how many film cameras I own, but it is far more than I can count on my fingers and toes. Both medium format and 35mm. But now they are just beautiful reminders of another bygone era. For 99.9% of all photography, the benefits of digital photograph far outweigh the benefits of using film and chemicals.
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