{"id":360,"date":"2009-08-20T21:47:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T01:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/?p=360"},"modified":"2009-08-20T21:54:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T01:54:01","slug":"digital-photography-easier-film-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/2009\/08\/digital-photography-easier-film-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Digital Photography Easier than Film?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the last post<\/a> on my series of Digital Photography Myths<\/a>, one of the greatest myths <\/strong>I regularly see with digital photography<\/em> is that it is easier than film photography<\/em>.\u00a0 Unless you’re only referring to a situation where you are plugging your digital camera right into a printer (e.g. PictBridge) to make prints, it is simply is not so.<\/p>\n

Long gone are the days of the little yellow huts in supermarket parking lots.\u00a0 Even so, those huts represented the best of times for film processing.\u00a0 Any consumer could simply shoot a roll of film and drop it off at “The Hut”.\u00a0 Then, as if by magic, fresh prints would show up in your mailbox within a few days.\u00a0 Simplicity defined.\u00a0 As long as you could load a roll of film and lick an envelope, you could expect processed prints.<\/p>\n

The actual magic happened at the film lab where technicians carefully tweaked the exposure for each print in the film development process.\u00a0 Unfortunately, now that everything is digital, it is completely up to the photographer to ensure the exposure, white balance and color balance are correct for each print.<\/p>\n

Similarly, ordering different size prints used to be as easy as putting an “X” in the appropriate checkbox on the film processing order form.\u00a0 However, in the digital realm, the electronic file must be resized, resampled and sharpened for each print size to ensure optimal results.<\/p>\n

So, how do you “resize, resample and sharpen” the electronic file you ask?\u00a0 By using your trusty computer, of course!\u00a0 You never needed to know a single thing about computers, software, etc before this whole digital thing, but now it is mandatory if you want to crop or tweak any of your digital files.\u00a0 In fact, new skillsets are now required.\u00a0 So much so, that Digital photography has been one of the driving forces behind the demand for Adobe Photoshop professionals and graphic artists around the world.<\/p>\n

Hey!\u00a0 But digital photography is WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) isn’t it?!\u00a0 Sure, you can see the photo you just captured on the 2.5″ LCD on the back of your camera.\u00a0 You could even use the LCD to take the shot, but I do not recommend it for optimal results.\u00a0 Unfortunately, nearly everything<\/span> looks sharp on such a tiny LCD.\u00a0 As a result, you will likely not know how blurry your images are until you transfer them to your computer and look at them.<\/p>\n

A film camera is an extremely simply device.\u00a0 A lens, aperture\/shutter and a method to advance the film.\u00a0 A digital camera has the same components, but it also has menu screens nested multiple levels deep.\u00a0\u00a0 Sure, a digital camera may have more controls over a film camera, but it is also much more complicated to master and get a professionally finished product.<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the last post on my series of Digital Photography Myths, one of the greatest myths I regularly see with digital photography is that it is easier than film photography.\u00a0 Unless you’re only referring to a situation where you are plugging your digital camera right into a printer (e.g. PictBridge) to make prints, it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[44,36,42,52,43],"sp_smart_badges":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-discussion","7":"tag-compact-camera","8":"tag-digital","9":"tag-dlsr","10":"tag-myth","11":"tag-point-and-shoot","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Paul Manoian","author_link":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/author\/manoian\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"sp_smart_badges","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulmanoian.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sp_smart_badges?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}