digital vs film

He spent fifteen minutes complaining that his cheap digital camera can't match the dynamic range of film? He seems to have a really crap digital camera, at around the 8:20 mark he complained that everything is in focus which means he either doesn't have aperture control or doesn't know how to use it. If the former, it's not the fault of the digital. If the latter, he really has no place making this video. Give him a camera with decent dynamic range, something like the Nikon D800. Film has a dynamic range of somewhere around 14 to 15 stops, the D800 has 14.4. Before you mention that it's a $2,000 camera, consider that someone shooting the a roll of film per week will be spending about the same amount on film, development and scanning/printing over a period of three years.

Around the 8:30 mark he complains that the image is cold. Use the correct white balance. If the camera doesn't offer white balance control, again, it's not the fault of digital.

He complains that "I have lost countless memories because digital images have just been so disappointing and I can not go back in time to retake these precious memories!!!!!" - none of those can't be fixed in post. He goes on and on about how his film pictures don't have any blown out areas - that may be the case but almost all off them are overexposed to hell and back.

Conversely, here's a pro photopher (and a very old gent at that) using a decent digital camera for the first time. His thoughts on digital may be quite surprising...

[video=youtube;Psnp2vXblfQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psnp2vXblfQ[/video]
 
My favourite camera atm too ...
 
I'm surprised. That's a recent upload he should have used a decent, if not top of the range digital.

Tks for the video about don. What an eye he has. those pics have the wow factor. Loved him and found him to be full of charm unlike david bailey who's also amazing with a camera but a bit grouchy.
 
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I practically gave up photography for the best part of 15 years before I bought my first dSLR because of film and I'd probably drop it again if I ever had to switch back.
 
Why bwana, because of the price? Or the schepp of developing and printing?
 
maumau said:
Why bwana, because of the price? Or the schepp of developing and printing?
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I used to load, shoot, and develop my own film - after losing access to a darkroom, where looking back I probably spent too much time, it wasn't the same any more. It's a pity in a way because I spent those 15 years travelling the world and never took a photo.
 
Yes that's a shame. My entire family were avid film photographers. The darkroom was in an outbuilding in our garden and for many years the men spent saturday afternoon / evening and well into sunday morning in there with their kindermann chemical trays and meopta enlarger.

More beer bottles came out of that darkroom than photographs.
 
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