Film or Digital

[kaikeong]

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Hi!

 

I used to think shooting on film is nice feeling but nowadays digital technology is quite advanced that it may change my view. I do have film and digital cameras and sometimes I do some film shoot.

 

I find if you shoot on film, you need to send the materials for scanning into digital format. In this process, the sharpness has lost. Digital do not need to go through this step so the sharpness of good lenses can be seen clearly here. Next on film is the dust and dirt during the scanning process. We need to spend some time to clean up in Photoshop. Digital is much cleaner.

 

So whats your view if I say after all digital is good and its about time we go through this process.

 

 

 

kaikeong

 

 

[@McLeica]

Both. Art and artifice. 

 

It always annoys me when people describe 'developing' digital images in LR or PS.

Edited November 28, 2015 by Rapierwitman

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[Exodies]

Developing is a pretty good analogy for retrieving the latent image from a DNG and realising it in a JPEG or tiff.

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Developing is a pretty good analogy for retrieving the latent image from a DNG and realising it in a JPEG or tiff.

The analogy appears to suggest that a JPEG image was less latent than a DNG one. As a matter of fact, both are "latent" as you can not see them without the aid of some hi-tech apparatus. The transition from DNG to JPEG is just a matter of a few transformations, and it's simply a matter of convenience for the software industry that there is more software which will display JPEG files than DNG files.

 

The important difference between a DNG and a JPEG file lies in the fact that in the JPEG file the number of different ways you could present the image within the DNG has been reduced by removing much of the information from the DNG.

[pico]

A real digital photographer can see the image in a HEX dump.

[@McLeica]

Developing is a pretty good analogy for retrieving the latent image from a DNG and realising it in a JPEG or tiff.

 

Analogy it may be, but I just think it is a poor one that devalues the real art of developing film in a photographic context. 'Post processing' I can sort of live with.