Hello Ken, I found your dissection on film vs digital an eye opener.
Very wonderfully illustrated.
You will note on concluding that I went with Digital as a technology
of the future.
But a few clarifications may be in order:-
a) With 400 ASA film I would go down to 1/30 sec and f 2 to capture
street scenes at night, with excellent translation on print.
Using TAv mode on the the K20D or the K-5 IIs with the same
settings the camera would choose 1200 ASA or more.
I would assume that film is more forgiving. Actually cannot
explain this. A mystery to me??
b) Yes RAW capture is simply amazing with minimum 8-stops of
manipulation on the K-5 IIs. But such PP in the Film Era was very
limited, and PP was not on my mind when I raised this point that
"Film was more forgiving producing usable photos with under or
over exposure.
c) Your point well taken on "Shadow areas held more detail".
f) You will note that great dramatic commercial Movies are still made
on film media. I have nothing much to say on this.
Except that I have stashed away 35 mm and 120 Roll Film in my
Fridge in the hope that one day I will take out my Leica SLR and
the Rolleiflex F 2.8 Planar TLR for some magic.
Thank you Ken for some simulating inputs.
Regards.
Bipin
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