Film or digital

[MP Guy]

I know digital sometimes may be taboo to some members but lets not forget the RD1 and others on the plate. The gallery holds a combination of all sorts of photos taken with different cameras. Having said that, please answer the following without cheating.

Is the attached image digital or film?

 

[Socke]

I don't know 🙂

 

[FPjohn]

Great kid

Great kid

Hello:

Great kid*. Your test shot could be either all digital or digital + film. Hard copy prints from a digital file or film on the same paper would be the challenge to take up.

yours
Frank

*great shot.

 

[MP Guy]

This is interesting. I will give the answer later. But please do not cheat.

 

[Solinar]

I guess ____________, but more importantly I wanted to say that those are nice set of wheels. It is an official "Spiderman" big boy's bike.

 

[Fred]

Can't tell on the web. A bigger paper enlargement on paper might give clues.

I can't help thinking though, does it really matter? The end result if it is pleasing to the viewer is what matters.

I use both but prefer B&W film or Velvia for most of my own stuff, it tends to by 80% digital for stuf I do for othr people though.

 

[Andy K]

Ok I'll bite. 😛
It looks digital, by that I mean it has an 'empty of grain' feeling I get from most digital images I see, sort of a video look to it. I'm probably wrong, as the previous poster said, it's difficult to tell on a monitor.

 

[Fred]

OK I'll guess it's digital, nice wheels 😀

 

[TPPhotog]

It's a beautiful capture of a child and that's all I care about 😉

 

[trittium]

I am guessing it is digital because the image is grotesquely sharp, and the colors are a little too vivid.

 

[MP Guy]

I only ask because I have seen comments on forums all over the web not just here how a picture is digital and should be on a film forum. The question really is if the user does not tell us what it was shot with do we really know 🙂

 

[MP Guy]

Camera: Leica MP
Lens: 90mm 2.0 APO
Film: Velvia 100
Location: Home

 

[T_om]

I'll post the same thing here as I post under the pictures in my gallery:

"Since I am a believer in Garry Winograd's statement that "only the photograph matters" I am not posting much in the way of technical data. It doesn't matter."

Tom

 

[TPPhotog]

Jorge I have pictures of female models in a gallery on my site and occasionally get comments that they are digital captures. In fact they were all shot on HP5+ and wet printed before scanning. As has been argued many times, once they are posted on the web they are all digital. Self appointed "Experts" believe what they want regardless of the facts 😉

 

[SalmanA]

I was going to say that it looked like a digital shot based on the immaculate sharpness and look of the shot, before you posted your answer!

Nice shot BTW.

 

[lynn]

This image has a digital sharpness, but - I think - a film-kind-of-warmth in the skintones. There is something about the DOF that puzzles me, though: a collage-like feeling.
I visit this oasis for the inspirational effect of the RF photos, and the RF expertise, so I'm hoping, somehow, that this is analog; digital is everywhere, and anywhere, else these days.

 

[mr roberts]

Well, not to pick nits, but since we're looking at it on a web page it's obviously digital in its current state, but as to it's origins it's possible to go either way. It does, as said above, have the grainless look of digital (at least on my laptop screen) and it shows very saturated color, but it might be possible to get the same look on a VC/UC or Velvia/like scan run with NN, NeatImage, etc. It's hard to tell without knowing the level of manipulation that the original "negative" has seen prior to posting.

So I guess the way to phrase it might be that regardless of its origins it looks like a digital capture as shown here.

 

[Bertram2]

I know digital sometimes may be taboo to some members but lets not forget the RD1 and others on the plate. The gallery holds a combination of all sorts of photos taken with different cameras. Having said that, please answer the following without cheating.

Is the attached image digital or film?

It IS digital, from a digital camera, no scan, looks like DMR a bit ?

Bertram

 

[lynn]

And, as usual, I spent too long composing. Tsk.
And thinking.
Always good, Jorge...

 

[Bertram2]

I know digital sometimes may be taboo to some members but lets not forget the RD1 and others on the plate. The gallery holds a combination of all sorts of photos taken with different cameras. Having said that, please answer the following without cheating.

Is the attached image digital or film?

Ouhahh, I would have lost a bet !! 😱 Looks as if scanned Velvia 100 finally looks as saturated as digital, amazing ! 🙂

Nonetheless the today new posted nudes from a Serbian guy are ALl digital, this is a new bet !

Bertram