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These are all valid points, but it's not like film is without flaws either. Film may not have pixels, but it has grains. The flipside of "always being able to p
by lutorm 17y ago
These are all valid points, but it's not like film is without flaws either. Film may not have pixels, but it has grains. The flipside of "always being able to pull something out" of film is that it's outrageously nonlinear. And film is not particularly light sensitive.
Astronomers used to use huge glass plates to capture telescope images, but when CCDs became available there was a revolution in data quality. It's true that astronomers probably don't care about the same things photographers do wrt capture medium, but in astronomy, CCDs wiped film off the map.
The final killer for film: You can't back it up. Your slide may last forever, but if you lose it, or your house burns, game over.
- mustpax 17y agoNot only that, but to last a long time, film has to have been processed absolutely correctly (developed, fixed, and fix-washed) and stored absolutely correctly. Any mistakes, and you are a long way away from an archival copy. This takes experience, skill and some more experience. Correctly operating a digital camera for a hobbyist is much easier. Also, while individual digital recording devices have short lifespans, it is trivial to make completely lossless identical copies of digital information. However making a good copy of an analog recording is notoriously difficult.
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