When it comes to cameras, what works best for you?
2006-10-16 01:23:05 · 37 answers · asked by Emma 4 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cameras
Digital
2006-10-16 01:24:18 · answer #1 · answered by jayktee96 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both digital and film have there place in the world.
Digital cameras give us instant gratification and feedback. Editing and other post processing is made easier by quickly loading images onto a PC or MAC. But digital photography, lke their digital cousins, the computer make a lot of us lazy. We don't read manuals, follow instructions or even understand photography basics. Yet we expect to produce prints worthy or Josef Karsch or Ansel Adams.
Film is clearly still a winner if you are looking for great colour saturation at slower film speeds like ISO 100. Digital sensors still aren't good enough to revival all the nuances of film. Film can be challenging but the rewards are well worth the effort. To get results from film requires the application of fundamentals.
In the hands of a talented, creative person a camera - film or digital - will produce great results. After all its not about the technology, but you!
2006-10-16 02:55:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Digital every time! The quality of modern equipment is amazing, you can pick up a fantastic beginners camera for well under £100 and it will give brilliant results. The main attraction for learning photography with a digital camera is that the results can instantly be seen and any mistakes are easily rectified without incurring any costs by wasting film. Channel 4 did a programme last year asking this question to professional photographers and none of them could tell the difference between 'digi' and film. It's the best thing ever!
2006-10-16 04:36:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Digital... the digital camera's with 3+ mega pixels take as good or better pictures than film camera's do.. plus there is the added value of having a digital copy of the photo and being able to pick and choose which images you want to print out.
2006-10-16 01:26:30 · answer #4 · answered by In the light 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Digital
2006-10-16 01:24:27 · answer #5 · answered by Sir Sidney Snot 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Digital for me. I switched from film to digital about three years ago and have never looked back.
One reason is I like the abilty to take many photographs without worring about the cost of development. Experimentation is cheap with digital. Want to make sure you got the shot? Take 5-10 pictures from various angles and settings. Cost - zip!!!!
The second reason is that I do not have to have an expensive darkroom or the difficulty of working with color. The software programs out there are fantastic, I can work with the digital photo file without changing one thing of the original file, and then have it printed when I am happy with the finished product.
Norm
2006-10-17 04:42:14 · answer #6 · answered by nikonphotobug 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
honestly the best way is digital because digital photography has advanced so much that it has actually left film behind i have compared the two pictures same day same photo and film just doesn't give it justice and also the printing costs and quality of digital prints are so nice but be sure to get a camera that does at least 3.5 megapixal any less quality and you just cheating your self out of a good picture hope this helps
2006-10-16 02:27:07 · answer #7 · answered by luca 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people only look at their holiday snaps once anyway and if it's film throw them in the drawer.
Digital lets you save them to your computer. look at them and then wipe them!
Film generally has a higher resolution and better colour rendering and you can put it in to be developed and just pick up the prints. Digital you have either to buy a 6X4 printer or mess about printing them so slowly on your ink jet. It doesn't work out cheaper than film to DIY your digital prints. Maybe putting them in to be printed is cheaper. This is particularly so if you keep fiddling with all the bibs and bobs in photoshop.
The big thing about digital is that nobody else sees the pictures. Make what you will of that one!
RoyS
2006-10-16 02:56:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both my son and my Sis have taken great pics with throwaway film cameras but digital gives zoom option and ability to zoom further or alter on computer - if you have the time!!
paid £500+ in 2002 for Fuji digital -had to have replaced under warranty x 2 and last year's replacement of 610 digital now costs £150ish - cost effective in long run compared to film and development.
2006-10-16 01:30:30 · answer #9 · answered by Serendipity 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As an amateur photographer I use digital. Why is this?
Well, once you invest in the initial (and most always much steeper than film) cost you do not have to pay anything past that to take pictures and see the results. Being an amateur, digital also lets me experiment to play with the settings of my camera without spending money.
If you're interested in learning more about digital photography (and basically photography in general) you can check out this wonderful forum: http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/
Best Regards,
Zach
2006-10-16 01:29:34 · answer #10 · answered by Zachary B 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋