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Makten wrote:
That's like the most ridiculous statement I've read on this forum. Film isn't any more "real" than digial. It's grain in an emulsion, very much like pixels, albeit not in a regular pattern. Zeroes and ones are the two letters of the language; binary math. It's just as "real" as letters on a paper or grain in an emulsion.
If you tear down a house or building and then re-build it to exactly the same size, standards, etc., with exactly the same materials inside and out and exactly the same furniture, etc., it will still not be exactly the same as the home or building it replaced. There will be deviations from the original that many may not see, but there will be deviations nonetheless. This is what digital does ... tears down then re-builds. In many respects, it's is the uniformity of the pixels vs. the somewhat random nature of film grain that accounts for some of the difference. And are you suggesting that the re-construction "code" of ones and zeros is the same as light hitting an emulsion directly?
This same argument has been going on for years and years with analog audio vs. digital audio. I prefer analog. The best digital audio sounds flat and artificial compared to the best analog recordings. And direct-to-disc recording (the record actually being cut while the musicians are playing; no tape deck in the recording chain) puts digital recording to shame.
If there's one thing about film vs. digital that continues to amaze me is that even the most emotionally-filled digital images suffer when an image is soft or when they contain noticeably high levels of noise. When an image contains both softness and noise, we pretty much regard it as a not-too-good or even poor capture.
And yet, softness and grain in a film image doesn't negate or hide the emotion, if it's there. The subject matter almost always comes through, as was evidenced by the recent Henri Cartier Bresson exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Lots of grain. Lots of softness (MOST of the images were soft). But what pictures! Nobody cared about or commented on the softness and grain/noise. And yet, that's almost always the first thing we notice in a digital capture when it's there. This, to me, is one of the great plusses of film vs. digital.
- Steve
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