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Q. Digital and Film.....my observations...
Asked by Mark Jones
(K=458) on 8/4/2008
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I have the F100 and the F5....I also have the D70 and the D300... And I know there will be alot of discussion on this, but I got to say that even with the D300, I still love film, specifically, slide. Maybe some of you will want to comment, but for me, I have found NO digital camera yet that emulates or is as good as, old fashioned slide film. Digital is great for convenience, workflow, to a certian degree cost(no real developing), but the colors just dont pop at me like they do on film. I think I would rather toss a few slides away to get that one great shot where the colors grab me. When I want very colorful shots that I look forward to posting or enlarging, film is great. If I want quick, average, point and shoot type of pictures digital is good. What do you guys/gals think?
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Dave Arnold
(K=55680) - Comment Date 8/4/2008
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You know, if you can afford film and either develop it yourself or have total control at your lab, then go for it. Otherwise, I think personally, you are washed up when you dis digital for the reason you say: lack of "color pop".
With a good software post-processing, you can make a digital shot just as appealing and with the quality look of film. That's my opinion though I am sure there'll be many others who follow that say I am the one who is washed up.
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Jeroen Wenting
(K=25317) - Comment Date 8/4/2008
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Get to know your camera and post-processing software.
I've found (to my surprise, I must admit) that the D200 can do pretty much everything my F100 could when loaded with most slide films.
Saturation is a tad less than Velvia can achieve (especially in the darker blue and green tones) but that can be compensated for in post-procesing.
I switched to digital for financial reasons, but I can't say I miss slides. I do sometimes take out my F100, but it's now loaded with T-Max. Black and White is something digicams can't yet do properly.
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Billy Bloggs
(K=51043) - Comment Date 8/4/2008
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I agree with Jeroen re black and white. I've just bought my first digital camera but will be keeping a film kit for shooting mono. For me, digital mono just doesn't have the tonality, nor the beautiful grain of film. Of cousrse, post processing can improve things quite a bit.
Re colour, some people I know, generally older folk, are put off digital because you can't really get the highest quality straight from camera, you have to buy into a computer and software, the best of which is very expensive. With slide (and film sometimes), especially medium format, you can get first class results straight off. I'm finding, for example, that I always have to up the saturation with RAW (DNG) images to get anything like I'd get straight off with even Fuji Superior.
Of course digital manipulation adds many new possibilities but that's a different story, it depends what you want to do with your art.
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Jeroen Wenting
(K=25317) - Comment Date 8/4/2008
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yup. As it is I was scanning slides and getting the scans printed for years because it was so much cheaper (here) than getting prints made directly from slides (which I found out the few times I did it just meant that the lab pulled the slides through a scanner and printed from the scans, charging extra for the scanning).
So the main thing moving to a DSLR did for me re printing was remove 2 steps in the process (getting the slides processed and then scanning them).
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Mark Jones
(K=458) - Comment Date 8/5/2008
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Dave,
Dissing digital? Not at all. I know many of you, as well as I, have invested alot in the digital format. Keep in mind however, that in order to "post-process" you first have to have a computer, then depending on the software, anywhere from $100 -800.00 AND printing them out on paper. My intent was not to "dis" anyone or any camera, it was an opinion. Developing a slide and having that picture come out perfect is ultimately the goal with minimal "processing". Im a photographer with an opinion thats all. Dont take it personally....Mark
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