Wednesday, May 25, 2011

On Film And Digital Photography

By Hayley Koslowski


Gone are the days of film prints. But we must take a look at some hidden benefits films may had over photography. Here, we shall tackle everything that has to do with film and digital photography. Picture Clarity

In digital photography, the number of pixels may affect the quality of the photographs indefinitely. Like, in this case, the image might be have 900x440 pixels. In digital photography, pixels compose the colors that make up the picture. Remember that a picture is nothing more but a collection of small square-shaped pixels, often made up of one color.

Films photographs are not made up of pixels. Exposure plays a very heavy role in films. Films, therefore, are able to portray curved images much better. Pixels can only do its best to reproduce a curve, while films reproduce accurate curves. Bottom line is that pixel have no power over films and not that it's a better quality of digitized ones.

Image Fabrication

Note that in order for films to render images, they have to be subjected to two chemical processing. First on, light exposes the negatives. Light is reflected on the film paper, making the image appear. One has to be very careful during this process. Something could go wrong during during the negative exposures. Second problem would be paper deterioration.

This would deem problematic if you would want to restore certain pictures. Restoring pictures require the presence of the original source, which are the negatives. So, restoring simply means copying a copy. Negatives will give restoration experts the ability to reproduce the first-hand images out of it.

Digital photography may not be immune to problems. Digital files may be corrupted initially. Image resolutions can not go as higher as the original one but be lowered though. Printing isn't exactly a safe process for digital. You won't get the desired quality when you print out high-resolution pictures on low-end printer. Quality is greatly affected by it.

Film and digital photography may share common similarities as well as differences.




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