Film has major advantage over digital in that the film type selection can be matched to the requirements. Digital is more of a general purpose capture which I do not think would do as well as film on very low or very high contrast scenes shot with correct types of film.
Regarding lens>film>scanner>digital vs lens>sensor>digital I do not think that either method is inherently superior. While the film process has an additional generation, it uses different conversion technologies so the extra step does not insure worse (or better) quality than the sensor process just because the sensor process has less generations. JCO -----Original Message----- From: Paul Stenquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 10:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: USAF target and resolution tests I think that what you say might be true in theory. But I know that in the real worldI can't squeeze as much out of a negative shot on a gray day as I can with a RAW image shot on a gray day. I think it's due to limitations in scanning software and perhaps in the whole process of changing film to digital. Remember, you have two levels of loss here. You lose something when you go from the real world to film. Then you lose something when you go from film to digital. If you go right from film to digital, and you start working with the raw data, you're probably getting as close as possible to a fix. I know I can do better under those conditions. I don't understand the science of it all. I just know what I can do. On Nov 4, 2004, at 9:48 PM, J. C. O'Connell wrote: > If you shoot and then scan film, you can do anything > you could have with a DSLR image in terms of color balance. There are > also many different films to choose from to adjust the color palette. > If anything a DSLR is more limiting than shooting film because the > sensor only gives you one characteric while using filmS give you a > choice of many different characteristics. RAW helps digital but film > doesn't need it.... > JCO > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 9:15 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: USAF target and resolution tests > > > Hi Paul, > > I can't help but wonder how photographers made photos under similar > circumstances before the advent of digital. > > Shel > > >> [Original Message] >> From: Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> [...] >> about color accuracy, control and consistency of digital. I had to >> shoot a car a week or two ago under muddy skies. it would have been >> impossible with film. But shooting RAW digital, I was able to >> generate > >> acceptable images. > >
