35mm film camera and digital camera

[steph]

Hi all,
Which of the above is better to use when taking shots. Please could sombody give me a comparison in terms of contrast, film speed, resolution and compression?
Thanks a lot!

[srphotography]

Welcome to the forum.


WOW, that's a big question with thousands of different answers and opinions.

Personally I switched from medium format film to digital (Fuji S1) in 2000, and then Fuji S2's and S3's and currently shoot with Nikon D200's. All my medium format equipment was sold 4 or 5 years ago now.

The convenience of digital cant be beaten and quality is excellent. In my opinion putting a medium format film print against a digital print, both say 30" x 20" people (even experts) would not be able to see any difference, and in my opinion a digital SLR now can produce better quality then 35mm.

Let the debate begin!!!!!

[stevedevil]

As steve said thats a really hard question to answer!

But to help in pointing you in a good direction, then here are some tips for both..

Film camera's are now " Very Cheap " to purchase, and used correctly they are " Irreplacable " as their definition ratio is very high!

The largest thing going for them at the moment is they can be enlarged without any pixellation, as with a digital the image is stored as lots of Square Pixels, so as you enlarge these shots they can look very pixelly ( Without Software enhancement )

Also film camera's are now around £ 3-00 for a development of 36 shots at 6 x 4, where you pay around 5p for a similar in digi print..

A Canon EOS 5 will cost you around £40 at the moment ( Film )

Where the Equivalent EOS 5D ( Digital ) is around £1500, so again big savings..

Self developing costs make film even cheaper!!



Ok well now Digital..

The main one is " No Developing " so 36 shots costs nothing!

Printing the shots from Digi or Neg are around the same, so the £ 3-00 per 36 shots, where I take 470 in one shoot! then it wont be long until your saving money with the digitals..

But the resolution of Digi camera's when enlarged can be a problem, but as said with good software this is not a problem..

To learn how to use a camera then Digi is great as once the initial outlay in costs has been met then its pretty free, as if you have just a PC you can download the shots and see the results for nothing, then any good ones print or save and delete the rest..


As said there will always be questions over whats best!!

Just some ideas for you, hope they help

[rocwing]

it depends your need.

digital is a trend, but, 35mm is really great quality.

rocwing