(more coming soon)
film benefits
- film is its own always-useful archive
- film can be rescanned at higher resolution in the future
- view cameras provide extremely large, high resolution source image with complete flexibility of lens movements and the whole scene captured at once
- no concern about dust on the sensor destroying portion of the image
- every spot has full color range, unlike bayer sensor’s interpolation of full color range
- color range can be wider than digital
- film’s response has built-in “knee” that preserves discernable detail in highlights without blowing out
- no need for anti-aliasing filters to prevent moire with large pixels
digital benefits
- today’s best sensors have better linearity, dynamic range, and signal to noise ratio than film
- with such high s/n, lower spatial resolution is needed for same subjective image quality as film
- today’s best sensors match the spatial resolution of film
- for still life, a scanning back can be used with large format view camera and its lens motions
- 12 megapixel 35mm full-frame size sensors clearly outperform 35mm film
- no problem with film flatness or accuracy of film frame registration
- immediate preview with live view and immediate review in-camera
- no need for noisy, stinky, toxic chemicals or delay in development process
- no concern about x-rays fogging film