Getting a New Camera? Will it be Film or Digital?
Are you debating whether to get a digital camera?
No matter who you are, it's almost a given that you take pictures of some sort or another. We all want pictures to commemorate our special events, vacations, pets, loved ones and the ordinary days of our lives. Film cameras are great, but today's digital cameras have an astounding potential.
Let's take a look at the differences between a digital camera and a film camera.
From a scientific and technological standpoint, the two are vastly different. When you're using a film camera, the light travels through a lens and burns the images onto a film. When you're using a digital camera, the light travels through the lens, encodes the light as binary data or computer data, and stores the resulting picture in memory in the same way a computer does.
Although these differences between film and digital cameras are interesting, most photographers are less interested in how the cameras work and more interested in what this means in terms of photographic ability. We want to know what these differences mean in terms of what we can do with the camera.
One key difference is that of versatility. A digital camera can offer features that a film camera usually cannot. Digital cameras can record still photographs as well as capturing video clips and audio files. A film camera is a stand-alone piece of equipment. A digital camera is often combined with other equipment, including cellular phones, MP3 players, and smart phones. Instead of carrying several pieces of equipment around, you can tote around just one - and carry it in the palm of your hand.
The picture printing process is much different in digital cameras and film cameras - although both offer various options. If you use a film camera, you might use your own dark room to develop prints, or you might drop them off at a photo development service. If you have a digital camera, you record your images as electronic data. Therefore, you can upload them to your computer and print out, upload them to an Internet based printing service, or take them to a photo printing service to be printed.
In either case, you can do your own printing or developing, or you can arrange for services to do it for you.
A third difference lies in the ability to correct and edit pictures taken with your digital camera. By uploading the images to your computer, you can use photo digital editing software to create many wonderful effects. You can do the same with pictures taken with a film camera - but you must scan then into a computer. The scanning process digitizes the images.
So, when choosing between film and digital, you will want to consider which of the two ways fits best for you. If you have a technology bent, you will surely turn to the brave new world of digital cameras, which traditionalist will continue to work with film cameras. Both types of photography are bound to be with us for some time to come.
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June Campbell
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