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film is critical in photography, people that tell you that film is too costly and time consuming are not giving you good advice.
Lets start at why film is relevant, for one there are no large format digital cameras. Not a one.( bizarre scanning backs are made, but they are useless in most situations). The resolution of a large format image is incredible, no digital camera can match them. So how does that play out, well lets say you were a landscape photographer, you need the incredible resolution for big prints. With a large format camera, you can blow up pictures to 6 feet or larger. Try that with a digital camera and you will soon find your image is unusable.
Product photography also quite often uses large format camera. The way the camera is made allows the lens plane and film plane to be moved in relation to each other, this in turn allows one to straighten images, put a certain perspective on them and about a million other things.
Pretty much all architecture photography is done with the large format camera also.
A 35mm digital camera also known as 35 full frame, has a little sensor in the camera in place of the film, ok we all know that, but in large format the film is huge, common sizes are 4x5, 8x10 and some other sizes. This is measured in inches, compare that to the little sensor in a digital camera and you soon see that digital photography is soon becoming a joke.
Medium format photography is available in digital and film, its common sizes are 6x4.5 6x6 and 6x7. The digital version is 6x4.5 otherwise known as 645. This is a good solution to a lot of photography. Fashion is usually shot with a digital 645. The problem is, to shoot 645 digitally requires you to rent or buy the sensor, to buy it cost anywhere from 16 to 30 THOUSAND dollars ( it gets even more pricey, but not less).
This prices most people right out of it. However, you can shoot film for a few bucks. The film back ( which will last for years and years) is about a hundred bucks used. The resolution of the medium format is excellent, not as good as a large format, but far more easier to use.
To say that film is dead is silly just for these reasons, but there is more to the story. I'm not going
to go into how film makes you a better photographer, others have already covered that.
The zone system which Ansel Adams discovered teaches one to place a shadow and highlight where they want them to be, its a fairly complicated conversation, but it is how we make sure that you can see detail in shadows and texture in highlights, it is used to avoid dark areas from being pure black and highlights from being paper white.
The zone system is fundamental in photography, we learn the zone system by shooting film. It is an incredibly powerful tool used by the worlds best photographers. We can also use it in shooting digital, but it really shines when used with film. Mr Adams lived before the digital camera , but would anyone say he didn't make the worlds finest photographs?
I love to shoot film and have no plans of ever stopping.
Lets start at why film is relevant, for one there are no large format digital cameras. Not a one.( bizarre scanning backs are made, but they are useless in most situations). The resolution of a large format image is incredible, no digital camera can match them. So how does that play out, well lets say you were a landscape photographer, you need the incredible resolution for big prints. With a large format camera, you can blow up pictures to 6 feet or larger. Try that with a digital camera and you will soon find your image is unusable.
Product photography also quite often uses large format camera. The way the camera is made allows the lens plane and film plane to be moved in relation to each other, this in turn allows one to straighten images, put a certain perspective on them and about a million other things.
Pretty much all architecture photography is done with the large format camera also.
A 35mm digital camera also known as 35 full frame, has a little sensor in the camera in place of the film, ok we all know that, but in large format the film is huge, common sizes are 4x5, 8x10 and some other sizes. This is measured in inches, compare that to the little sensor in a digital camera and you soon see that digital photography is soon becoming a joke.
Medium format photography is available in digital and film, its common sizes are 6x4.5 6x6 and 6x7. The digital version is 6x4.5 otherwise known as 645. This is a good solution to a lot of photography. Fashion is usually shot with a digital 645. The problem is, to shoot 645 digitally requires you to rent or buy the sensor, to buy it cost anywhere from 16 to 30 THOUSAND dollars ( it gets even more pricey, but not less).
This prices most people right out of it. However, you can shoot film for a few bucks. The film back ( which will last for years and years) is about a hundred bucks used. The resolution of the medium format is excellent, not as good as a large format, but far more easier to use.
To say that film is dead is silly just for these reasons, but there is more to the story. I'm not going
to go into how film makes you a better photographer, others have already covered that.
The zone system which Ansel Adams discovered teaches one to place a shadow and highlight where they want them to be, its a fairly complicated conversation, but it is how we make sure that you can see detail in shadows and texture in highlights, it is used to avoid dark areas from being pure black and highlights from being paper white.
The zone system is fundamental in photography, we learn the zone system by shooting film. It is an incredibly powerful tool used by the worlds best photographers. We can also use it in shooting digital, but it really shines when used with film. Mr Adams lived before the digital camera , but would anyone say he didn't make the worlds finest photographs?
I love to shoot film and have no plans of ever stopping.
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