9 ms·
Another point in film's favor is that it has extremely high resolution per dollar. I just bought a Rolleicord TLR camera, which shoots 6 cm square negatives. I
by GlenTheMachine 7y ago
Another point in film's favor is that it has extremely high resolution per dollar.
I just bought a Rolleicord TLR camera, which shoots 6 cm square negatives. It cost me $250 on eBay. If shot with good quality low grain film, and scanned with a professional grade negative scanner, the equivalent resolution I get from it should be on the order of 100 megapixels, and possibly more in good lighting conditions.
Even regular 35 mm film shot in a decent SLR will give you 30+ megapixels. You can buy good used 35 mm cameras all day long for less than $100. You can buy a Hasselblad 500C, the very same camera the Apollo astronauts went to the moon with and that Ansel Adams used for shooting his iconic photographs of Yosemite, which uses the same 6 cm film as my Rollei, for less than $1000.
Buying a 100 megapixel digital camera would cost me ten thousand dollars minimum.
See: https://petapixel.com/2014/12/18/comparing-image-quality-film-digital/ https://petapixel.com/2014/12/18/comparing-image-quality-fil...
- floren 7y agoHell, my Yashica TLR was only $100. Those 6x6 negatives look AMAZING.
- slumdev 7y ago> Buying a 100 megapixel digital camera would cost me ten thousand dollars minimum. Hasselblad makes some nice ones. https://www.hasselblad.com/h-system/ https://www.hasselblad.com/h-system/
- GlenTheMachine 7y agoYeah, they're marvelous. But the digital back by itself is $26,000. A full camera is around $35k.
- paulmd 7y agoThere are some options in the $3-5k range. $3k gets you a used Pentax 645Z which is pretty nice. (I know, I know, only $3-5k, what a deal. Better than the "cash payment for a pretty nice car" range though.)
- abruzzi 7y agoin fact, you can get black and white film (Adox CMS 20 II) that will out-resolve just about any lens you can get (800 lp/mm) unfortunately, its really hard to shoot and develop.