The age-old question resurfaces: is film better than digital? In this video, the victor is crowned once and for all.
There are certainly pros and cons for film and digital. Film has a certain materiality that just can’t be replicated digitally. The “film look” is a very real thing and new photographers spend so much money trying to replicate it digitally. For things like certain colors or tones, that’s well enough but replicating grain is a whole other story. And don’t get me started on taking a sharp digital image and making it blurry or worse yet intentionally shooting it blurry.
Alternatively, digital has a certain cleanliness to it that film could never achieve. This quality works well in tandem with digital's ability to take multiple images in quick succession and get the very best micro-second of a pose.
In his video, Luke Cleland offers deeper insights into his preferences. There are certainly pros and cons to both and I won’t spoil the video much more by covering them here. Ultimately, the only thing that matters is the final image. Your personal choices for your photographic image should dictate your use of either film or digital cameras—or perhaps if you are using an alternative process like cyanotypes then no camera at all?
Film Photography is better than digital especially for those who is scaning film photos into computer 😂😂😂 is vinyl record better than CD? Is horse better than Car? Is wood better than plastic... For some it is of course
slugs than medicine. lol
Oooo love all these spicy debates about digital and film!! Hi Luke here (the guy from the video lol).
Thanks for the post of my video Ali Choudhry!
Happy debating!
Its the best, haha
I have processed thousands and thousands of rolls of film, and sheet film, both C-41 and E-6 working in pro labs. You couldn't pay me to touch film again! Digital will always surpass film in quality, and ease of use. To get the quality of my D750, I'd have to pack my 4x5, and there ain't no way that thing is getting lugged around again.
Why does it seem that all these proponents of film have never really had to work with film.
Because cough *** hipsters *** cough
Alan Klughammer, to put it another way, they have probably not had to depend on film to pay their rent.
Not for me. I went to Churchill to shoot the polar bears. I took over 1000 shots. As the bears moved, I kept firing. As photographers know, just a slight change in a position can make the difference between a good shot and a great shot. Digital makes this easy. Besides, it's not my idea of fun playing with the chemicals. But that's just me.
I think it boils down to two points: Firstly, film may truly considered superior to digital if the imperfections introduced to the image by film is considered superior to the ones introduced by the digital camera. Secondly, film cameras might inspire photographers to do certain things differently than with digital cameras, which may result (sometimes) in better images. I personally prefer fewer imperfections, which usually are achieved by digital cameras nowadays, so that clarifies the first point for me. The second point, well, just stop looking at the viewscreen and fiddle with camera settings in those moments. I think it's a matter of getting used to it. Once you are through with it, there is little reason left to go back to film.
I love film. But it has become the photographic equivalent of an artisanal exercise - like macrame, growing your own organic vegetables or making cheese. There is a time and a place for it, but only if you enjoy the time, effort and expense.
At least in film photography there is no mirror vs mirrorless debate......
hahaha but there is rangefinder vs SLR. ;)
haha that's the truth.
As a marketing hook I think for some markets like wedding and some portrait genres offering an option to shoot film can be a good upgrade/upsell. Shooting film is special, different and more honestly organic than a bunch of pixels. Just don't tell them if you scan and print digitally ;^)
Not so much with most commercial type clients.
What is film
That depends. Is an apple better than an orange? Each has their place and usefulness. I grew up with film and use both. Note of interest...all agencies I shoot for preferred slides, but they also accept digital...of certain MP and RAW or RAW/JPEG. Just saying. I just LOVE my Z6, but also my Fuji GX 680 and Hasselblad 500CM.