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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
Film vs Digital? the answer is simple: how many people on this forum still use an 8mm movie camera (which is all we had when I was a teenager) and how many used camcorders?
Digital wins in all aspects: Hands down. A 35mm photo on 100 ASA film as an approx pixel level of 10M pixels. Switch to ASA 400 or 800 to shoot indoors and you are down below 5M pixels (easily).
Film is still used by professionals, and it has some unique characteristics that are hard to duplicate on a digital camera.
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I have to back pedal on this post a little. My daughter is getting married in september and I have been looking for a photographer. I checked out several wedding photographers who all use high end digital cameras, and I was pretty sure that was the way we were going to go
BUT, the last photographer on my list, went to see his work, and I was totally blown away by the difference in quality of his photos. He uses a Hasselblad film camera for all his work. The one difference that really stood out is the latitude of the film. When you have a bride in a white dress with a lot of frilly detail, her vail, and the groom in a black tux you have a wide range of light level to capture, without having the tux come out all black, or the dress being totally washed out.
The reason I bring this up, for FIRST events you encounter similar lighting problems, floodlighted fields with darkends backgrounds. With the right film you could get much better results over whats possible with a digital camera.