Any comparison between film and digital must also take into account the need for film to be digitised in order to do anything other than conventional photographic prints (and dupe trannies)
The quality loss there is not insubstantial, giving digital another head start
That is true, however the quality lost when digitising film is really just a shortcoming of the available digitisation processes. The quality is there in the film, just waiting for technology to advance enough to digitise it properly .
Regardless, the 'quality' differences quickly become vanishingly small unless you are obsessed with pixel peeping or are printing at enormous sizes. I don't think one format is ultimately 'better' than the other in any objective way, just that they have different characteristics that make them both interesting and valuable for my style(s) of creating images.
Heron
Dec 21, 2016 at 12:26 PM
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