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Film really is dead, especially for travel
So we had discussions about digital vs. film before.
The popularity of digital, along with the decline of film, came down to convenience, cost, etc. I've been happily collecting a lot of digital images of my travels for years. Part of the explosion in popularity of digital photography is due to tourism, which was also surging in popularity, at least until the past year. Anyways, I see the limitations of digital photography, particularly with the relatively inexpensive point and shoot cameras. They've certainly made these things small and made them easy enough to use that people overlook their limitations. One limitation is dynamic range, which you can see if you try to photograph the interior of a cathedral or church where the interiors are mostly lit by daylight coming in through the windows. The windows, if they're in any part of the frame, will overpower the rest of the frame and the result is a shot with a bright source and dark walls everywhere else. This page contains a picture shot with film, which would look vastly different with most digital: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/why-we-love-film.htm I don't recall film being that bad but then again, a couple of decades ago, you used to be able to set up tripods and take long exposures almost everywhere. These days, tripods are not only frowned upon in interiors but in exterior public spaces as well in many European cities. In any event, I dug up my old 35 mm SLR and went around trying to find a battery and some rolls of films for it, after initially searching online for processing and scanning services (idea is to import it into my digital photo library, properly tagged with various metadata about the content of those photos). Few places sell film these days and I only find one place selling the 6V battery needed for my old Canon SLR and it's from Germany and it costs $12. Online it's about the same after shipping and film also runs $5-10 a roll, then another $5-10 just for developing and then probably about $10 for scanning. You're reduced to online options, not necessarily to save money but because most film photo shops have disappeared. Some photo shops carry a few rolls and that's about it. Even if I gathered all these materials, it's not likely the places I would like to photograph would permit tripods or long setups. Beyond the costs, film equipment is a lot heavier and bigger, even more bulky than most DSLRs. The payoff would have to be significantly better results in order to justify lugging around the old film camera and associated gear. |
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