Archive for the ‘Film Vs Digital Photography’ Category
Film Vs Digital Photography
Author: admin
We are now at the point where the film has reached almost obsolete. However, film had a number of advantages over the digital photography that can not be fully understood. In this article I will address the differences between film and digital photography.
Resolution
With digital photography, we are accustomed to from the digital images in terms of the number of pixels to think in dimensions. Thus, a certain image to 900×440 pixels. This is because digital photography is working with specific color values for each of the pixels in a good shape. However, note that at the end of the day is a digital photo is of an atomic set of pixels, each square and consists of only one color.
On the other hand, has no movie pixelation. Rather, the forms of images, approximation of the way the light hits the negative. In other words, the film is in the situation, including curves. At the end of the day, a pixellated image a series of steps approaching a curve, while a photographic image is for real curves. This does not mean that a filmed image with higher resolution than a digital image, it’s just that do not apply the concept of pixelation.
Image Production
One of the interesting things about the film is that the final image is actually the result of two separate photochemical processes. Firstly, the slight negative impact on, printing an image. Then the light is shone on the film, paper, so that the finished image. This has the odd effect that there are actually two places where film production can go awry. On the one hand, it can be a problem with the original production to negative. On the other side, but the paper itself may age or decay.
This has important results for film restoration. Restorers often have no access to the negative of the film or photo. Therefore, the image that they literally produce a copy of a copy of a copy. However, when restorers to access the original negatives, they will be able to produce much higher quality restorations, because the negative of the picture where the photo is a photo have.
Digital photography can also go wrong in two places. First, it can go wrong in the actual creation of the digital file. The image is only for the resolution as high as the original file, but may ultimately be reduced. Second, it can go wrong in printing the file. Many people can print high quality digital images and print them out with a lower quality. As a consequence, the overall image quality is degraded.
Film and digital photography have very important similarities and differences.