Grainy AF? Plus exceptionally bad compression?
Listen, color film offers no real benefits over digital. If you were shooting monochrome I might agree with you, but not this.
Maybe it's the bsky app, but I don't see whatever it is in this pic that you think makes film so great.
You're thinking of Xitter. I like to think this site is for honest discourse.
The photo itself is fine, I just don't see how it gave you the idea that you should reject digital photography entirely. That's all I was saying.
Birthday cake's bad for you anyway. ;p
1. That was a brilliant response
2. WTF is wrong with that dude?
There's people out there who want smooth/unblemished/perfect stuff and that...is not art. There's folks buying digital gear to recreate the look of old film....and then hate on the real thing. Jeez.
I think in time digital will be regarded similarly to film, both are technologies that have improved enormously and leave idiosyncrasies that reflect period, artistic choices before during and after capture. We don't have a few hundred years of training on the aesthetics of digital yet.
A few hundred years? Photography itself is barely 200 years old. What we call film was only invented in the 1880s.
35mm film, which I'm guessing was used here, arrived in the 1930s & was very different to today's films.
People romanticize film grain, but it is a product of cheap color films from the 1970s thru 00s, like instant Polaroids and Kodak Gold 800 found in single-use cameras. High quality films, like Kodachrome, Portra and Fuji Pro have always been fine-grained and even-toned.
The photo in question is nothing special. It's grainy and the shadows are under-exposed. It's only slightly better than a 110 snapshot from 1987, but that makes you never want to shoot digital again? Fine. Put down the K1000 and go pick up a large-format Graflex. You have a lot to learn.
“It’s a slippery slope, Caravaggio. You start out thinking I’ll just underexpose a shadow or two, what’s the big deal? One thing leads to another and the next thing you know you’ve stabbed a guy in the balls, you’re hiding in Rome under assumed name, and a death sentence is hanging over your head.”
The thing about colour film is the same thing about vinyl recordings over digital - it lets your imagination fill in those microspaces, so the audience does the compression in a way that enhances the enjoyment. For some. Not you I guess.
Oh man, don't get me started on vinyl.
I want to hear the music, not have to "fill in" pops and hisses.
That's the only real difference between vinyl and a CD: Noise.
