MICKEY88
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- May 15, 2003
fiffy said:"the beauty of digital is I have better control over everything, I can edit on my pc, make multiple backup copies, and send my files via the internet to a professional lab for the best photo finishing available..
I used to be old school also, and fought the switch to digital, but once I did, I haven't looked back.."
Thats interesting, you failed to mention one single thing your can't do with your film camera. And your film camera will take a superior picture. Useing programs such as photoshop and the like only take away from your photograph because your become dependant on them and fail to capture the images to thier fullest posibility because after all, you could always edit them. You can bring your roll of film into a lab, have it processed and put onto CD without printing anything. You could take those images and edit them on your computer, email them, and even have them printed. But then again, you could always have the negatives printed which is a superior source then a CD is, and have a true photolab do corrections based on each individual negative, and pay very little more then you would at a drug store/warehouse store which has employee's who are undertrained and just print them on the auto setting of thier minilab. I have access to any digitol camera I would possibly want, but I still shoot film. Why? Just look at the pictures. They are sharper, considerably sharper. They do not lose all detail in bringt highlights as do digitol camera's. And they have more deapth then any compressed digitol file available. The only thing that digitol can do that film can't is give you instant gratification, which there have been film cameras that were even capable of that untill the other camera's got together and basicly squashed the technology. After all, why allow a superior camera wich cost maybe $250 give you the only thing that their $1,000 camera has over it? Why not make people think that they need that $1,000 camera and increase thier own profit?
unfortunately you made an incorrect assumption, I do not rely on my ability to edit, I still shoot the same way I did with my 35mm cameras, most of my pictures are printable as is, I only correct in the situations where I goofed or lighting was really bad, or uneven, but when the need is there it's so much easier to make corrections myself than to get a lab to do it exactly the way I want them to...
when I referenced editing I meant artistic editing, basically doing the same types of manipulation that people have done in the darkroom in the past...
as far as sharpness difference digital is every bit as sharp when using good equipment with a steady hand or tripod..
we could debate this forever, and we both could get people to back our points of view, bottom line is, film will go the way of 8-track tapes and beta video, and very soon vhs...the average person, will buy digital for eae and cost effectiveness, more and more pros are going digital, there will be no profit for companies to make film for the low percentage of holdouts..