Comments on: Film Photography Vs. Digital Photography

By: Colour Factory

Colour Factory — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:14:14 +0000

Here at the Colour Factory we print for both camps and can of course see the benefits of both film and digital. However, we are concerned about the future of photography and how digital has affected this. In Australia digital photography is more prevalent than film for commercial applications, as compared to the USA or Asia. However, a high number of artists are still using film, especially in large and medium formats. Due to the loss of a high turnover produced from commercial clients, the concern is that film and processing may become unavailable for the average person in Australia, and limited and expensive for artists.

By: David Gwynne

David Gwynne — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:59:03 +0000

We can argue about the “look”. And about the portability of multiple batteries versus film rolls for remote area shoots. Storage permanence. White balance and ISO flexibility. Scatter gun mentality v. care. These arguments score points for both camps, BUT, until camera manufacturers give us back our analogue controls many of us won’t be converts. Pentax went back to the future with the genius analogue 645n superseding the menu operated 645. Nikon clocked off when they superseded the mighty F4 with the dopey F5. Now they won’t let us have an aperture ring! Doh! And they punish our loyalty by crippling our older lenses. Canon and the others did it years prior.
Hallelujah Leica with their M9. Shame its the only good digital but most of us will never be able to afford.

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By: SC Pienaar

SC Pienaar — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:28:52 +0000

I own a Canon EOS 5d, 30d and a 3 (film camera).

I do lots of different photography in different lighting conditions and I have NEVER seen better colour consistency and skin tone accuracy than what film gives me. Getting the right skin tone in any photograph is essential and working with digital has COMPLICATED my life severely. Sure, there are solutions, but nothing should be this difficult. What’s even more idiotic, is that apparently no one in the camera industry addresses this problem. I think digital must be a revelation to someone that has never used film and it has enormous advantages, but come on, let’s halt the megapixel race for the sake of better tonality. I don’t want to spend half my life behind a computer and I don’t care about the vitues of Lightroom – it still chews up valuable time!