Film vs. Digital Cameras

Photo Journalism Professor Chris Walker does a photo test between film and digital cameras on his fair project that his been ongoing for the past 18 years.

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Education

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• film
• camera
• photo
• journalism
• photos

[ishouldplayzelda]

i really fucking hate digital photography. film ftw

[stevevox1]

I hate digital but it pays the bills, I shoot 35mm digital but for real photography I shoot 5x4 ( 4x5 for american viewers ) . digital is shit as far as Im concerned and its created millions of cowboy so called photographers that know fuck all about photography. not one of the so called photographers I work along side would know where to start with my 5x4's or even know how to process film

[WolvesOfEurope]

@stevevox1 It doesn't matter if *you* don't like film. What the crowd thinks matters, and obviously most of them don't care about digital/film, let alone seeing the difference.

[SuperMangn]

The thing is now everyone and their family can afford to have good quality pictures and take them themself. Back in the old days photography was for rich toffs with Jaguar cars.

[LostFoxeh]

What I think is funny is how oil paintings where the way to capture something, then the first camera came around, yet painters saw their art as superior. (easier and faster to use film than paint). Now digital is around and the film thinks it is superior (digital is easier and faster then film). In the end you make art with what you have in a process you enjoy. Which is better, well what do you enjoy, computers or darkrooms?

[gawdesanket]

@kotapaka which one has better image quality?

[kotapaka]

All of you saying that digital is shit shows how much professionalism and knowledge you have. I'm an engineer and unlike idiot photographers smart people (such as engineers for example) do not reject something completely - they evaluate whether the method is fit for the task. For many tasks digital suffices. The same reason 8 bits are enough to represent a digital image in a computer and only rarely would you use 10 or 12 bits - it suffices. Also digital is inexpensive and fits hobbyists.

[ssimon64]

Film, especially slide film = rich vibrant colorful textured beautiful images.

Digital = dull lifeless dead smooth sterile ugly images.

Post processing can impove digital colors but still nowhere near as good as slide film. Slide film = no post processing needed.

Digital sucks. In my humble opinion.

[rephixphoto]

i started photography in digital and i like it but i agree that film have a better feeling of image right now i am shooting 90% Meidum format film for my personal work because of the quality of the image and the artistic feeling that i get from it and for client i shoot digital because of is advantage to give work to the client quickly

but film in my opinion is better

you can watch on my channel i aded a video of a screen flow of a scann from one of my negativ scanned a 3200 DPI from a imacon

[SaypheZonE]

Digital + Photoshop > Film : Everyone always goes for that film look because it came first. If digital was created first, everyone would want to achieve that digital look.

[ajuk1]

DSLRs are great but I think a decent film compact still pwns digital compacts' asses, for one thing the sensor is about 20x small than a piece of film and off that only about half the sensor is sensitive to light.

[colourArt]

Take e look to this online FILM PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINE: lenegatif(dot) com

They feature film photography maybe you are interested.