What is resolution of old fashioned film camera?

Question

I am using Nicon55 with film (not digital). Pictures are amazing! But what is bothering me is that novadays with all that Mega pixels in digital cameras i really don't know what the equivalent will be between good film camera to a 6000Mpixels digital one for example

Answer 1

Thjere is no 6000 MPixel

20 is maximum and that's close to film

A lot depends on the film, 100 speed film is very sharp!

Undertand the difference.

Film is 3-D and digital is 2-D.

Film is an emulsion of grains of silver salt that has length, width and thickness. It is also irregular.

Light hits the film and exposes the grains from the top layer all the way down to the plastic back in strong light.

Digital is just an array of fixed sized pixels in a matrix and they are one layer thick.

Color film is coupled to dyes that are microscopic in size.

Film shows it's "colors" and "clarity" when you enlarge a small segement. With a 20 MP digital when you do this you are dropping the reoslution to 5MP or less.

Digital has artifacts, film doesen't.

By this I mean the border between a white object and a red object in digital smears because of the red and because of the R-G-B filter.

In film this just doesn't happen.

A given film pixel can be both pure RED and WHITE, not so in digital. A given PIXEL must be ONE or the OTHER.

Thus in film half a pixel can be white and the other half red. NOT SO in digital.

It must be ONE or the OTHER.

Film has more contrast. Film is Analog and can have thousands of contrast shades. Digital is limited, maybe 100 or 200 levels of contrasts.

Film can, technically, have infinate shades of color. Digital is limited by the bit width and most cameras are 24 bits or 32 bits. This gives you fixed color shades to maybe 2 billion

Answer 2

Well at the minute there really is no comparisson.

Film produces a quality that has yet to be reproduced by digital cameras. I just love the look of film.

It all depends on what you want to use your photographs for. If you are just taking snaps then a camera with 5 mega pixels and above is really good quality and are pretty cheap now.

If you want to take professional pictures then a digital SLR is the way forward.

Have a look at, for camera reviews:

http://www.digicamera.com/
http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/digitalcameras/
and
http://www.digitmag.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm


Try shopping comaprison sites for prices online:
www.kelikoo.co.uk
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or
www.play.com is pretty cheap for all things like cameras, memory cards and accessories (oh yeah and DVD's and CD's too!)

Answer 3

Its an awful lot due to the fact that the light receptive chemicals on film are really fine so they capture alot more detail. this is especially so if you are planning to print the pictures.

do not compare megapixel to film

use criteria like quality of lens and type of film the camera allows you to use. Also the degree of control the cameras give you.

Answer 4

I believe a 16 megapixel camera is getting very very close to analog camera quality.

Answer 5

Go to a camera shop or go to Nikon's web site and ask them what the current equivalent(if any)is to their models.

Answer 6

12 million on 35, double for 70.

Answer 7

I HAVE AN OLD FASHIONED AS WELL I DO NOT HAVFE THE LATEST ONE AS I CONNOT AFFORD IT AND IT WORKS JU&ST AS WELL IF NOT BETTER THAN A DIGITAL CAMERA IT IS RELIABLE AND HAS GIVEN GOOD SERVICE THROUGHOUT MY LIFGE

Answer 8

My brother once said around 7mgp, but that was ages ago.

Film does produce better results, and longer lasting prints.

Answer 9

the resolution is..............buy a more modern camera or go digital....lol