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 Re: What is "film look" and is it better than digital? | |
carstenw wrote:
Luka, perhaps I need to qualify what I wrote: I think that spending a lot of time making digital look film-like is silly. I don\'t think it is silly spending a lot of time making a nice look in either medium, but explicitly making one look like the other is just a waste of time, when the direct path of just shooting the other is available.
Carsten, I\'m not sure that I agree with you there. It depends on how much work you need to put in. Developing and scanning takes its time as does the film processing. If it\'s quicker with digital + film emulation, then why not? There is plenty of good software that makes the process simple plus you are not limited to the exact style of some film stock but can modify it. You don\'t have to use certain filters for instance etc
I shoot two different film formats 6x7 and 135. The former is because the cost of modern digital format backs is too high and the sensors still too small (645 at best). The latter mostly to get some variation from shooting digital. The camera in question, an M6 is also more enjoyable to use than my digital M9. And I use it for situations where I really don\'t care about getting perfect composition or high image quality.
I\'d shoot large format film if it wasn\'t for the whole size & weight issue plus the difficulty of finding somebody to develop 4x5 or 8x10 sheets at a reasonable cost.
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