Digital photography vs. film quality.
September 2, 2008
Filed under PHOTOGRAPHY
There seems to be some curiosity about shooting film among younger photographers and it’s reviving the medium (just when you thought the film vs. digital debate was dead, the bones get dug back up!). I enjoy shooting film but never, ever made a head-to-head comparison of film vs. digital on the same day / subject. I’ve been a bit curious so this weekend was a good occasion to have a little imaging shootout.
To be honest, I don’t know how to test those things outside of a lab, where all conditions can be measured equally. But the real world is not a lab, the real world is software pushing and pulling on dynamic ranges and various ways to enhance all of these settings
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