Digital Or Film

By : TJ Tierney

Having lost count of the number of people who have asked me: "have you gone digital?" I am always left wondering why it’s such a much-asked question. The camera is only a tool in which a photographer creates an image. His personal ability to create a unique image remains the same.

For many forms of photography, digital has long held obvious advantages, but for landscapes the resolution necessary to make larger prints just wasn’t available. But things have changed and digital cameras are fast becoming the tools that most pros use.

Modern digital cameras are perfectly capably of matching the 35 mm film - the format which most landscape photographers begin with. But can they really match the large format film cameras? This is probably the greatest question that all photographers face.

Instant LCD feedback is digitals greatest gift and this enables the photographer to check exposure and composition of their image in the blink of an eye. While this is a big advantage, the hours spent in front of the computer processing the raw images have to be a hindrance. A landscape photographers time is best spent behind a camera not in front of a computer.

The pros and cons of digital photography will remain an issue for some time. At the end of the day a digital camera won’t make a photographers images better. The same values we apply in our photography should remain regardless of which camera we use.

Good photography remains as elusive and as enticing as it ever was; going digital doesn’t change this or make getting good images any easier. It brings technical advantages, and plenty of them, but the majority of photographic techniques never change. Good landscape images come from the photographer’s personal ability, not the ability of a camera. The camera helps, but the creative eye remains the same.

As a landscape photographer I am still hesitant to embrace digital photography and all the qualities that digital has brought to other professionals in different photography fields.

There are a few simple reasons that I still use a film camera:

The authenticity of my images could be questioned if I used a digital camera. It is often assumed that great digital images have been manipulated.

Too much time is spent in front of a computer.

Slide film produce stronger colours than a digital camera.

There are many advantages for changing to digital but I’m going to stick with film; for the time-being that is. With time film cameras will be a thing of the past and all our images will be exchanged for the pixels. But, be wary - believing our work will be superior would be falling into a great trap. For me size matters, the larger I can print an image the better.

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Digital Camera Rival

These days, digital camera especially consumer or compact digital camera have new rival and competitor.
At the beginning, this competitor was not imaging device at all,no one imagined that this gadget in the future would become serious competitor for digital camera and even analog camera.

Time goes by n rite now,this device has been evoluting into multiple purpose gadget. With this device, you only not able to capture image but even video! and with PIM feature that added lately, you dont need a secretary anymore.base feature from this device is a communication gadget,yes.. I am talking about mobile phone.
No doubt these days, mobile phone or cellular phone is very dangerous rival for camera or digital camera vendor. But since the use of analog camera has became less these days, i will focus only to digital camera.

Naturally, we don't like carrying many things in one hand when mobile. What we want is one thing that could handle everything. And people point to mobile phone for that thing. First, it's only a device with voice conversation only, and slowly but sure, it could handle text massage, then when the first lens installed to mobile phone (even it's quality was dissaster :D ), that is the day people realize that mobile phone could turn into camera!

since then, every mobile phone vendor race to install camera feature for their products to attract consumers. And when 3G technology had arrived,this lens is not just one installed,but 2! One for video call and other for capture moments.

How about digital camera? nothing has changed since analog hit by digital camera appearance. And now, we may say that analog camera is about to become history, defeated by many advantages of digital camera that couldn't offered by analog camera, such as:compact size, no more film roll, shoot with no worry run out film, and so on. digital camera decrease operational budget dramatically and increase productivity also dramatically.

Digital camera uses pixel resolution for image size, and it associates to the file size, the more high resolution you set, the bigger file size come.

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