film and digital

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Use two cameras, say, an F5 (loaded with Tri-X or T-Max) and a D-300 (RAW), to make two exposures of the same subject. The subject should be carefully chosen to have smooth transitions between low and high values. Now make two 8X10 images in black and white (color, of course, is for kids). Now look carefully at the photograph and the digital image, particularly at the transitions from darker to lighter areas. If you've looked carefully, you'll see that the transition in the photograph is smooth, continuous, while that in the digital image is not. In the latter, the transition or gradation eventually "jumps" from a very light gray to dead white, or from a very dark gray to dead black. Remember, too, that with digital images, the image is ON the paper: with photographs, the image is thoroughly IN the emulsion. And this is why, although I do make both photographs and digital images, I still prefer the former.


(P. s.: I usually print on Ilford's Multigrade Warmtone fiber-based paper and Epson's papers. I use an Epson Stylus Pro 4000 controlled by ImagePrint's RIP.)



To be a useful person has always appeared to me to be something particularly horrible. Charles Baudelaire


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