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Classic camera, classic dog
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Melanie L Chang wrote: Digital cameras are fun, but I think I might be a photography Luddite. It's easier to get good results with a cheap film camera than it is with a cheap digital camera, but a decent digital camera is, I think, every bit as capable as a decent film camera. Taking the pictures is one piece of it; getting the results out of the camera is another, and arguably larger piece. I'm really happy to put darkroom work behind me. I think you could probably spend hours and hours trying to deal with contrast issues in the "grin" photo, but with a decent digital image editor you could get what you want relatively quickly. But there's definitely something nice about the feel of a good film camera, and how it handles. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill |
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Classic camera, classic dog
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Melanie L Chang wrote: I don't know if I agree with that. You know way more than I do, so I'm probably missing a lot, but I think it helps that with digital you can take a zillion shots without any real penalty. Cheap digital cameras, and older ones, have problems like serious shutter lag that make it really hard to recover if you miss a shot, which you often do because of the shutter lag. They tend to be kind of unresponsive in general (slow focus, slow aperture changes, etc.) Some of them have really crappy color, too, and that's kind of hard to recover from. They can be excellent for snapshots but it tends to be hard to take really good pictures with them. But these days a good digital camera handles like a good SLR. I have an old, crappy digital camera. I kind of hate it but I'm living with it. It makes it more likely that you'll end up with at least a few good shots. Even a crappy digital camera can also kind of speed up the learning curve because you see what you shoot immediately after you shoot it. Well, I don't know. I find it hard to really see what I've got on those dinky screens, and there's nothing like spending a bunch of time staring at prints and trying to figure out what works and what doesn't. I've always been a moron about post-processing my digital photos. I'll maybe resize and crop using Photoshop, but that's it. Partly because I'm ignorant, and partly because I'm lazy, whatever comes out of the camera tends to be what I keep. Wait until you start spending time in the darkroom. Maybe you'll enjoy it more than photoshopping - it's certainly a lot more tactile. Still, ultimately you don't have as much control (unless you're a way huge wizard) and it's kind of wasteful. (I don't know about resolution; my understanding is that no digital camera of any quality can approach the resolution of a good film camera with an excellent lens -- not currently, anyway.) I think they probably do for most purposes. Digital stuff is digitized. The conversion process (or in the case of CCDs, the capture process) basically samples analog input. When CDs first came out a guy I worked with refused to buy a CD player because he felt he could hear the difference between the continuous analog music from vinyl and sampled music on CD. Digitizing images raises pretty much the same issues. If your "sampling" is dense enough it's nearly impossible for humans to detect that it's not analog. For example, these days over half the long distance telephone calls made in the US pass over a VoIP trunk, in which the voice is digitized at a sampling rate of 80 frames per second. I'd be very surprised if you noticed. Similarly, with an 8mp camera it would be pretty surprising if you could tell that a picture taken with it didn't come from a film camera. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill |
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