Digital or Film? Post Yours Let's Guess

RayPA

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Is it live or Memorex? Is it film or digital? Post images that you think might fool us. Let us try to figure it out whether the source was film or digital. Guess and tell us why.

Here's mine:

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Film or Digital?
 
I immediately thought it was digital because of the colour noise, but then changed my mind. And then I changed my mind again.... The noise does look like a sensor, but still could be the CCD on a scanner...

Is it a film negative/print scanned on a digital scanner?
 
My guess is that it went through some sortof digital Cmos or CCD sensor. Why? Because it is on the net.:D

Seriously, it is too small to tell, but i would guess film because I think I see some scanner noise.
 
The trouble here is that an image, regardless of source, has to have jumped through a few hoops between the camera and the screen of the laptop I've now viewing it on. Post-processing, neat or sloppy, is going to have some effect. I've known a few photographers whose digital work stood out like the proverbial sore thumb largely from post-processing technique (or apparent lack thereof); one of them had wondered how I could pick out the digital shots in a heartbeat. Initially, I pegged it to the camera's sensor (original Canon 1D), but it turns out I was only half right...his post-shoot PS technique left a bit to be desired (as did mine with my own 1D shots...can't be complacent with those things).

And I remember shooting a few rolls of a certain batch of Provia 400 a few years back, and scanning them on my Minolta 5400, the result being images that were quite slick looking...in fact, a little too slick, and it wasn't the apparent lack of grain that was the issue (airial view of Times Square). There was an almost-digital "sheen" to the images I'd never seen in my other scans, slide or neg, fine-grain or not. Admittedly, Provia 400 isn't one of my go-to films, but the few subsequent rolls I've shot didn;t have that "look". Weird, but there you are.


- Barrett
 
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RayPA said:
Is it live or Memorex? Is it film or digital? Post images that you think might fool us. Let us try to figure it out whether the source was film or digital. Guess and tell us why.

Here's mine:

425867883_35068ceb3e.jpg



Film or Digital?
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It is digital, a direct attempt in fact to create a film-like image. Beyond a little sharpening, and levels adjust, no other processing. And yes it is a D200. ;) IIRC spot metering and manual exposure mode, 400 ISO (possibly 800) with a Nikon 55/2.8 Micro.

:)
 
fdigital said:
How about an image number 2?
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wow! tough one! nice shot, too! I don't see any of the plasticity discussed in the other thread. It sure looks film-like to me, but something about the highlights and the look of the oof...I'll guess digital (??).

:)
 
VERY difficult to judge on a screen for way too many reasons. And let's not forget that ALL the pics are digital, anyways (scanned becomes digital)!

But if we we're comparing pritns, then the differences would be obvious.
 
the girl, I originally thought was film but edges of her outline appear a little too sharp and went for digi, then saw exif eos 30d, man with bandana and hat film, wall digi?
 
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