how are digital cameras better than 35mm cameras?

Question

You see, I have an essay to write. So, just send your opinion....please!!!!!!

Answer 1

Once you have a decent printer and learn how to use some image editting software, you will find you can produce prints as nice as those you do in the darkroom. Once you get over the hump of the initial investment, you will also realize that you're done spending money. No more film, chemicals or processing fees. You are able to take all the pictures you want FOR FREE and this is the right way to learn photography.

Besides that, as telaine says, this is the age of connectivity. Using a digital camera creates an image that is all ready to go over the internet, whether in an e-mail or on a blog or whatever. It's there for you NOW. For that matter, you can print it NOW. Many, many times, I've taken pictures of someone visiting our house (or their baby) and given them prints before they left.

Answer 2

The other posters are bringing up many good points, and I agree with them. Here is another perspective:
I am a photo lab manager. I believe it is harder for Joe Consumer to get a good print from digital than it was from film. For one thing, many MANY people just don't or won't read the camera manual! Digital has more you have to understand than film did. White balance, optical vs digital zoom, ISO settings and the noise they incur. and the sensor's 4x6 size crop factor. Folks don't bother to learn about that stuff, and their digital prints suffer for it.

Film can be corrected in the developing or printing process, so many pictures came out fine, even if they were overexposed by up to 3 stops. Overexposed digital files are trash.

For some reason, people are reluctant to push the delete button on their digicam to dump the crappy pictures. I see many out of focus images that should have been re-shot. Again, people don't know how to work the zoom function to review their pics in detail. The little screen doesn't have enough resolution to tell whether or not it is in focus. So I hear every day, "It looks fine in the camera, why does the print look like this??"

Anyway, just my two cents worth on the digital revolution concerning the average point & shoot photographer.

Answer 3

digital camera is an electronic device used to capture and store photographs electronically instead of using photographic film like conventional cameras. Modern compact digital cameras are typically multifunctional, with some devices capable of recording sound and/or video as well as photographs. Professional digital cameras are generally dedicated to photography.

Digital cameras use a memory disk instead of film, which can be erased, reedited and used again. You use the memory of your memory disk, then by looking in the LCD you can delete those pics you do not like to make room for taking more pics.

35 mm camera are basically cameras that take pics using film. If you want to develop it you normally have to take it to the store and can wait from 1 hour to a few days to get it developed.

With your memory disk you can stick it in your printer or computer in the appropriate slot and edit the picture before it gets printed. You can do this at 1am in the morning in the convenience of your home. Plus you can make as many copies as you want on the spot if you like one picture. You can upload the pics to certain sites to let the world or your grandkids see them and even be downloaded and printed. It is rather hard to store negatives and they can fade and be scratched if not taken care of.

35 mm might enjoy an advantage in that there are lenses for the camera that you could take a picture with a telescopic lens. But the digital cameras are coming out with lenses comparable to the 35 mm.

Digital cameras are smaller and lighter since the parts are nearly all electronic and no film to waste space on.

Answer 4

As a 35mm photographer I resisted getting a digital camera, but finally bought one this past summer for a trip. I love it. What I like best is that I can shoot as many pictures as I want without worrying about the cost of buying film and having it processed, I don't have to carry extra film around, I can delete the pictures I don't like, and it's much easier to share pictures with friends by emailing them, printing them out myself, or copying them to CDs. Since digital cameras now have more megapixels, the quality of the pictures can be as good as 35mm. Digital cameras have also become more affordable, and they're now making digital cameras you can buy different lenses for, like you can for a 35mm (zoom lenses, wide angle lenses, and more).

Answer 5

A digital would nicely be adequate for authorities artwork, notwithstanding it has a concepts on the thanks to bypass earlier it may surpass movie. there is in trouble-free words one digital camera on the marketplace that does no longer have an interpolated MP score and that i have not considered all and sundry in this team even factor out that digital camera. What which skill is that the 12mp digital camera that you've is fairly no longer a real 12mp with all mp having the skill to make all hues. With that in concepts, you for this reason have obstacles on digital cameras that you do not have on movie cameras. movie cameras are a ways a lot less complicated to apply, there is not any longer an abundance of little buttons the position you adjust this or so and there are not any "scene" settings on those that i exploit.

Answer 6

There are a lot of pros and cons. Other people have covered many of them so I will just add this one and it is a "pro" for film. Film tends to have a better dynamic range then a digital sensor. For example, a difficult shot for a wedding photographer is getting the details in a brides white wedding dress while at the same time not turning the grooms black tux totally black. Film is more able to capture that range of tones from white to black.

Answer 7

#1 reason, you can preview the photo. I went to Spain and burned 18 rolls of film, only about 60% was useable. With digital, I could have erased all of the crap and shot all of the photos that didn't turn out again.

#2 reason, volume. With memory prices dropping, you can take as many photos as you have card space. Went to Hawaii and took over 3000 photos. Try doing that with film...it would cost you a fortune in film and developing costs...

Answer 8

I shoot black and white mostly personly I prefer my 35mm SLR film camera to do Black and white, I will leave it at that. This disscussion has gone around and around in my photo group many time and has got quite heated on some occations. There are pros and cons to both cameras you as a user have to decied what is best for you

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Answer 9

nothing can beat classic film. But with digital you can see the results right away, adjust brightness, and print one at a time if you don't want 24