So I pulled out my old camera

[SK33T]

A minolta XG1 with a 80-200 lens looked at acouple of old photos I had taken with it and bought back some memories.

Like trying my first black and white film,finding a place that does black and white to develop.

Wondering if the gonna screw up the negatives????????????

So my new D5000 nikon after many point and shoots is my new baby,but for some reason I miss the old XG1 as in what u saw u got.

Digital is like buying ure first PC,It comes with windows,then u start learning and the funny thing is with PCs is that u actually never stop learning,dont matter how smart u are someone somewhere will now better and u learn from it.

So going digital using a DSLR was a big eye opener as into how much a picture can be manipulated by settings on the camera,cos it wasnt always what u see.

So here I am on Saturday cooking a stirfry of seafood mix,reading my instuction manual for camera at same time,it has a FOOD option.

So there I go out with the camera,setup food option take a picture(by now the wife is used to this cos ive done tomatoes and sprayed them with water and so forth)so she just gives me the OK BABE look whatever.

Well the pictures looked liked someone threw up in a pan.
There went my seafood mix speciality cookbook menu picture.

point Im trying to make and asking is there a big difference in what u see on a old camera compared to the output from digital?

mmmm let be be more clear experiance(limited) dictates to me digital isnt what u see,how do u accomodate this?

 

[Just_Ice]

digital isnt what u see,how do u accomodate this?

And I quote Bwana, "What the camera see's isnt what I see". Or something like that. But thats why you have all the various settings and techniques to get it to look like it actually is.

Lets see this pic. For interests sake

 

[SubliminalThought]

mmmm let be be more clear experiance(limited) dictates to me digital isnt what u see,how do u accomodate this?

I come from the perspective of only ever using digital. However, from my understanding of film the situation isn't very much different. Firstly you have different film - velvia, kodachrome etc etc. And they all give a different look. Then you have different speed film, which also add to the mix and lastly you have the developing lab (or your darkroom filled with chemicals) which process the film in certain ways.

The digital world is comparable. There are different sensors which give different saturation and colours. There is are 'Picture Styles' or certain modes on cameras that apply different adjustments to your photos like and you have post processing on a PC to adjust them even further. The best you can get on Digital is RAW which is what your sensor sees. And that might not be exactly what you see!!