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Analog is a wrong word for film photography.

 

The French have found an elegant way of distinguishing the two kinds of photography: "argentique" (argent = silver, so argentique means silver-based) and "numérique" (digital). "Film photography" is not as sexy as "photographie argentique", but is certainly more accurate than "analog photography".

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8/8/2008- That's today! Shot 12 rolls last week...

 

Analog seems to be the popular term for Film Photography these days. Of course electronic Analog Still Cameras were around before digital, such as the original Mavica. I had a Panasonic TQ-2026 Video Disk recorder used for stop-frame video animation, also stored everything in analog on the optical disk.

 

I prefer the term "real camera" for film cameras...and I've used Digital Cameras since 1981.

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The sensors in digital cameras are analog devices. The output only becomes digital after A/D conversion. Taking pictures with a digital camera is therefore actually analog photography.

 

:cool::D

 

 

That's a nice thought Kent! Though of course the pixellated image field is quantised, so it's part digitised from the start. Mind you you could argue that film is (irregularly) quantised by virtue of the particulate nature of the emulsion (aka grain) so is film hybrid rather than analogue? Hmmm.

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