From a recent Popular Photography,
5 Reasons to Shoot Film
Five cases when film beats digital hands-down.
By Russell Hart
December 2006
5 Reasons to Shoot Film
Photo by Russell Hart
Seeing Things: While DSLRs can be retooled to capture infrared, they won't give you the crystalline grain and glowing highlights you get from Kodak High-Speed Infrared film, used to shoot this Florida sunbather.
Digital is the earnest child of photography, always striving to better itself. Film is the adult, having had more than a century to mature. That's why there are times when film -- and only film -- is the best insurance that you'll get the result you want. Here are five arguments in its favor.
1) ULTIMATE IMAGE SHARPNESS
For most purposes, digital will do. But unless you're shooting with an ultra high-resolution digital back or top pro-level DSLR, film still produces the sharpest possible images. A 35mm frame converted to a digital file by today's desktop scanners simply clobbers the sharpness of a typical consumer DSLR.
Yes, you can sharpen a digital image in software. And with most DSLRs you must, because images are considerably softened by anti-aliasing filters that keep their sensors from recording jagged edges and moiré patterns. Yet if you overdo your sharpening, the image can take on a distractingly "crispy" appearance. The sharpness you get from film is more natural looking.
2) A SPECIFIC "LOOK"
Films have personality; DSLRs don't... (Continues...)
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