and another thing....

I found an interesting (and obvious) comparison of digital vs analogue...

Essentially it's two similar images, one digital, one analogue, both cropped to show detail.



Film image, cropped



Digital image, cropped.

This is one of the more blatant disadvantages of digital photography, the fact that it is indeed digital, and built around pixels instead of a transformation resulting from light sources.

a couple of scans

i did finally unpack the scanner and scan in a couple of shots from the Chinon CM-4s, just to show the difference.

erm I think if you click them it goes full size. I could carry on uploading more and more but I think these give the general idea, the photos have a very different feel to them.....especially using black and white film, they often become an interesting image without any need for photo manipulation or anything like that.

I suppose it's just what you fancy though.

THE PROS AND CONS

DIGITAL VS. ANALOGUE.

I've been reading up a bit (and using my own basic knowledge) to determine what makes older, analogue photography methods better or worse than digital photography.

- The most obvious point to make is that the majority of people will gain better results from digital photography. Compact digitals, or Auto mode on DSLR's, reduce photography to a mere point-and-shoot activity; it is possible to offload all the hard work onto the camera's internal computer in order to produce a fairly decent looking shot. However, an well-skilled photographer should ideally be able to use a analogue SLR to produce a far superior looking shot; which goes some way to show that with a bit of determination, there are advantages in using classic, analogue cameras.

- A commonly-found problem is that Lab prints from a film often may not appear how the photographer intended them to appear. As a result of this many analogue photographers prefer to use transparency film, as this then makes it possible for the lab technician to view how the photographs were intended to look. This presents an advantage for digital photographers, who can spend a while tweaking their photographs on a computer and have them printed exactly how they want them to look.

- Convenience will always win against good quality. Of course, digitally, you are able to take hundreds of very good photographs at any level from a high quality DSLR to a lesser quality such as with an iPhone. Smartphones present an even greater advantage for digital photography, as it then becomes possible to share your images instantly with friends and family, or whoever. This is obviously as of yet impossible with a film camera.

- That said, film's analogue nature lends itself to many other applications where digital would inevitably falter, for example producing large exhibition prints which would need an incredible level of detail; for example a huge landscape image. For reasons like these, analogue photography will never disappear, as its applications lend itself very well to various situations, and as a result becomes a natural choice for many.

A classic

An absolutely timeless photo, demonstrating the value of photographs taken on cameras of that era.

some classic cameras

just ripped some pictures of some classic cameras, just to show how much nicer they look compared to todays jobs. the quality of print reflects this as well. I don't know a whole lot about them really, but that's the whole point of this project, really.

I do

have some prints somewhere from the Chinon CM-4s lurking about somewhere, although for the following reasons they won't be up on the blog for a while;

1. I've left all this way too late as usual
2. I haven't yet unpacked all my stuff in my new room
3. I haven't hooked up the scanner, as it's with all my unpacked stuff
4. They were taken at a time when I was slightly trying to rebel against this whole facebook situation of dumping hundreds of pointless photos, I thought that really I could just keep them for myself and perhaps occasionally use them or show them to people, that they'd be some kind of cool secret. Whereas in reality I should've scanned them there and then to at least have on my mac for situations like this. sad, i know.

I've also got a few films that I never got round to developing, usually due to financial reasons.

errrrrrr

I don't know what else to say on the subject..soz

Chinon CM-4s

An old camera that my mum owned when she was younger, I kind of adopted it and now it sits in my room, waiting for a time when I have some spare cash to buy and develop some films. When used properly it makes for some tasty shots, surprisingly it wasn't that difficult to get to grips with.



lovely.













easy eh? for a little more effort, the resulting shots are impeccable compared to your standard 21st century compact digital.