Film Versus Digital Photography – Is One Better Than the Other?
Many have asked the question. Film versus digital photography, which one is better? The answer to that question depends. Photographers can now be divided into two categories. There are traditional photographers, who see any progress in technology with suspicion and then there is the digital photographers who are into high tech instant results. Film photography hasn’t gone away completely, but digital photography is making a strong stand at replacing it. In this article, I will compare both. Film is more forgiving than digital in that it doesn’t require the many computer hour skills that digital mandates. Film-less digital photographs, pictures on a chip, scanned memories, call it what you will, digital pictures are a phenomenon of technology that allows for instant gratification. The internet brothers have been dabbling in digital imagery for years now. Film is good and improving, but digital easily keeps pace. Film processing is a dirty business. More and more governments are heavily
