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 Re: Could you go back to film? | |
dhphoto wrote:
It\'s an obvious comment but try and imagine we have had digital for 20 years and somebody invents film.
You have to work in the dark to load slides or spools. You can\'t change it\'s ISO without some awkwardness and anything over 1600 ISO (or less) is going to cost you for quality.
You can\'t have instant review except polaroid, you cannot change colour temperature after the shot, you are subject to processing and batch variation plus you have to pay for development or do it yourself, plus the quality is nowhere near what you already had with digital. Your film goes out of date and needs careful storage. No histogram. You can get a hair in the gate and not even know (till it\'s too late)
Somehow I doubt it would catch on
I\'ve often posed this thought experiment to people. Imagine a world in which both had been invented contemporaneously β the optical/chemical photography technology and digital photographic technology β and presented to photographers as initial choices side-by-side.
It is virtually impossible to imagine that people would have chosen the older technologies on their merits. Those technologies were what they had, and wonderful work was created with them (and still can be), but without the nostalgia (which I understand, having started with film myself) there is little to favor them today.
Note that I wrote \"little,\" and did not write \"nothing.\"
Dan
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