Having lost count of the amount of people who have asked me : have you gone digital? I am always left thinking about why it's such a much-asked question .
by WeldonDuffy


Having lost count of the amount of people who have asked me : have you gone digital? I'm always left considering why it's such a much-asked question .

The camera is only a tool in which a snapper creates an image. His personal capacity to form a completely unique image is the same.

For many sorts of photography, digital has long held clear benefits, except for landscapes the resolution important to make bigger prints just was not available. But things have changed and digicams are fast turning into the tools that most pros use. But are they able to essentially match the big format film cameras?

This is the best question that all photographers face. Instant LCD feedback is digitals best present and this enables the paparazzo to test exposure and composition of their image in the blinking of an eye. While this is a giant advantage, the hours spent in front of the computer processing the raw photographs must be a hindrance.

A landscape photographers time is best spent behind a camera not in front of a P. C. The good points and bad points of digital photography will remain a difficulty for some substantial time. At the end of the day a digicam will not make a photographers photos better.

The same values we apply in our photography should stay without regard for which camera we use. Good photography remains as evasive and as alluring as it ever has been, going digital doesn't change this or make getting good photographs any more easy. It brings technical benefits, and lots of them, but the bulk of photographic methodologies never change.

Good landscape footage come from the photographer's's private capability, not the capability of a camera. The camera helps, but the creative eye stays the same.

There are some simple reasons that I continue to use a film camera : The veracity of my photographs may be questioned if I used a digicam. It is often assumed that great digital footage have been manipulated. Too much time is spent in front of a PC. Slide film produce stronger colors than a digicam. There are many advantages for changing to digital but I'm going to stay with film, for the time-being that is. With time, film cameras will be a thing of the past and all our images will be exchanged for the pixels.

However use caution.

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