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patrickl:
--- Quote from: Zero_Hour on August 31, 2008, 10:43:25 pm ---One thing that neither Film or Digital do - Give the Photographer a "good eye".
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Yeah I have always been wondering about this.
Also with learning how photography really works. When I was taking pictures on film I was taking time thinking through the depth and lighting. With digital I notice that often I just shoot the picture and then look how it comes out. I guess each has it's own merits. To be honest it's probably experience too. I know how to use the camera (and to get the results i want) a lot better. Still film makes you think ahead more since by the time you see the result there is no chance to redo the shot anymore.
I feel it's much easier to learn the fundamentals of photography on a digital camera. I know people in photography class are (often) forced to use film, but still. When I was experimenting with film, it was a lot of work since you need to keep a journal to keep track of what you are trying. With digital the details are recorded in the image. Besides, you can see immediately how it comes out. I bought a unit to record image settings for use with a film camera, but still
Level42:
There I was thinking this thread was about DLP in the movie theaters :)
I've seen DLP for the first time in the theatre 3 weeks ago and I have to say it impressed me. I have to admit it was Wall-E, so this is computer generated graphics, which always seem to do best on digital projection methods. However, the colors were more vibrant, very steady picture of course and I did not notice any artifacting and no flicker, which is a major improvement IMHO.
Also of course no stripes/bad spots like happens when films have been projected tens of times.
Couple of days ago I finaly went to see IJ4 (yeah I know, very late) and it was old fashioned film and I noticed those things in the first couple of minutes. After that you just watch the movie.....
I'll need to go see a movie with real actors to know if I'm all for DLP now.... :D
richms:
For photography at tech (it was an elective I ended up with because the ones I really wanted were full) we had to use film for the first exercise and develop it our self with a tank and liquid and crap.
Never again.
I ended up with black and white pics (so worthless to me) with more snow on it then an old tv on bunny ears. Apparently that was the temperature or the time of the development. Great. So the pics would be useless if I wanted to use them for anything. Whereas the DSLR (it was an old one too) there was no noise unless I did something stupid like turn it to an absurd iso setting, and I could see how the depth of field was instantly, since it never shows that well in the viewfinder.
For what I want to do, digital is clearly the way to go. The biggest thing I had against the photography classes I did is that so much time was wasted on the film stuff, and not enough on taking good photos with composition etc.
richms:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on August 31, 2008, 07:00:05 am ---Another thing I hate about digital is the corruption issue, where you spent all day shooting a wedding, only to find your work lost by some data corruption. Its near impossible to get a second chance to film a wedding a second time.
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And dropping an undeveloped film canister never happens?
My only data corruption has being from
1. Crap cheap memory cards
2. turning the camera back on to take a few more after the low battery shutoff did its thing
3. and one case of plugging my card into a dodgy card reader.
It was just individual images in the case of #2 (taken on low battery were corrupted), they were all recoverable in #3 and #1 serves me right.
Whereas I have lost 2 rolls of film totally, once when a camera back popped open in a bag when it was bumped hard, and once dropping a canister,
Singapura:
And with most digital cards you still get a chance to recover the data. Try that with an exposed undeveloped film. If I want to see my wedding I just pop in the DVD and watch. My parent's wedding film is somewhere in their attic. I really must see if I can find it and have it transfered in DVD.
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