BetterPhoto Q&A: Comparison Between Digital and Film Photography

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  Digital Pictures Vs. Scanned Images
What are the similarities and differences between scanning and digital photography?...
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April 02, 2005
 
  Film Vs. CCD
Every time lately that I have opened a magazine I see articles about how to get the colors of a digital picture to look the same printed as they do on your monitor, and how to get the monitor to sh...
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December 14, 2005
 
  Is film Going Away?
Is there a chance that film photography might become the "horse and buggy" of photography before too long because of digital?...
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October 21, 2004
 
  Medium Format and Digital
Not to beat a dead horse, and I really am not making judgment: Does a top-of-the-line digital SLR replace a medium format (MF) film camera? In other words, are the results about the same as far as ...
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May 26, 2004
 
  Tri-X and Certain Color Films Being Discontinued?
The category of "film-based photography" seems like it may be obsolete. I just read that Kodak announced that Tri-X film and several color films are discontinued. I use mostly Tri-X 35mm and Port...
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May 03, 2004
 
  Digital Vs. Film: The Facts of Life :)
I have my own answer, but I'd like to see what professionals say. Is the best digital equipment capable of taking the high quality photos of a conventional camera? I think not; films have had ...
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July 05, 2004
 
  How Has Your Photography Really Improved ?
When I browse the images posted on betterphoto I see that the vast majority of them are taken with a digital of one kind or another. Very few it seems use film anymore. I suppose my question is i...
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February 23, 2004
 
  Digital vs Medium Format Slide Film
I'm torn between digital and slide photography, and am thinking of selling my Hasselblad system and my Pentax system and going to digital. Should I? And if I do what type of digital camera sho...
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March 31, 2004
 
  Digital Photography
I realize that asking a question about digital photography on a website is like asking a bear if he is hungry. However, virtually all of the people I see using digital are using it as a hobby. So, ...
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December 30, 2003
 
  Competitions / Why Bother?
I have been learning and taking photos with a passion for the last 12 months. I feel that I would like to have a go at entering a competition at a very basic level, just to test the water, so to s...
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November 29, 2003
 
  Usefulness of 35mm in Digital Age
I have a question that I'd like to see some discussion on - is 35mm a dinosaur now that digital cameras have gotten so good? I've got a couple of old Canon F1 manual cameras that I just lov...
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November 11, 2004
 
  Film vs. Digital
Do you think that digital will completely replace film in 5 or 10 years time? And what would folks do with their film cameras?...
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March 19, 2006
 
  digital vs film
Here is my point. The best digital is kodaks or canons new ones that are full frame ccds.and they are 14 MP at most. Now with my film and using ls-4000 I get 27.5 MP scans.So how can digital camer...
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April 28, 2006
 
  Digital Printing from 35 mm film
I took my 35 mm film to a reputable developer. I was very satisfied with the pictures, except upon very close examintion, I could see 'dots' in my picture. The developer used a digital pr...
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August 27, 2002
 
  Emulsion and Megapixels
How many megapixels should a digital camera have to be equivalent in sharpness and every other way to quality ISO 400 film (and ISO 125, 50, 800 if you know) to create pictures of the same size?How...
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July 04, 2002
 
  Film vs. Digital
In your opinion as a photographer what are the benefits to shooting film as opposed to digital?...
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June 01, 2004
 
  What will viewfinder show
I have a Canon EOS 1v. I am thinking of buying the new D60 sometime in the future. What I am wondering is if I take my 70>200 lense from my 1v and put it on the D60 how will the viewfinder size fro...
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September 03, 2003