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When photographing do you prefer a film camera or digital? |
Do you like black and white photography or Color? I used film cameras (advanced amature SLRs) for 35 years. About a year and a half I bought a Canon 20d. My film camera (a Canon Elan) has gathered dust for a year now. I found that the digital was as sharp as the film with the same lenses. What I like about the digital most is that I can take all the pictures I want for no additional cost (neglecting the cost of a printer, which most computer users already have, and the cost of software like Photoshop elements ($100) and a memory card) I can take over 200 high resolution pictures on one card and without depleting the battery. With digital, you can see what your picture looks like immediately and re-shoot if needed. I find that the more pictures I take, the more 'good' pictures I end up with. My experience is with Canon, but Nikon makes good stuff too. film. You just can't get a crisp picture with a digital camera yet. i just recently took a trip to DC and me and my friend had the two different cameras My pictures came out 100 times better. She is asking for copies of mine. Digital. But preference by others will depend on the use for the pictures. Film is still better for large blowups of pictures, but I don't do that type of photography. I post images on my blog and send them to friends via e-mail or project them with my home thetre projector. I don't print at all, or only occasionally and as a small 6x4 print. I've done both film and digital and have both, but haven't used the film cameras for 4 or 5 years now. I've done both B&W and colour. For mood there is a place for B&W, but its a colour world so most of the time I prefer colour. I loved film until I added up how much I was burning in one month between film, development and chemicals and I found out it added up to about 1/3rd of the cost of a nice digital. I made the switch and did not turn back. There is one thing I really miss about film: the texture of black and white film. My digital color pictures come out exactly as I want them without even having to try too hard. Black and white is a complete different story, it takes a lot of tweaking and I never get it "right." To make things worse, my last hope for going back to film is now out of the table. Leica introduced the M8, which completely destroyed my dream of grabbing an M6 or M7 just to shoot B&W. Then to rub salt into the wound Leica also started selling lenses for the Nikon mount, which means I can use these with my Nikon D50. Digital Cut my cost by to much to even think about!! stragh to computer and see what I got in minuts insted of days. touch up burn and dodge cropping allinmin insted of days. color or B&W depends on joborsubject matter Digital all the way. You can actually get better pics with it...a full framed 13+ mp camera is just like shooting 120mm film. And even better...when i go backpacking, i know carry 20 pds of camera gear instead of 30 pds of camera gear and another 20 pds in film! That and digital is so much easier to archive and portfolios are alll that much easier to personalize to the persons taste..not to mention cheap enough to hand out a digitized port. to a ton of studios than having one or two hardcopy! Having used both film cameras and digital cameras extensively, I prefer digital cameras. As far as my preference for black and white photography or color, I prefer color. Just a personal preference. |
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