As a pro shooter who transitioned from film to digital 25 years ago Lukas, I'd like to offer a different perspective on film vs. digital. It's all about control. In the 90s, professional photographers worked hard to create a custom negative, so we didn't have to pay the lab for an expensive custom print. We used matte boxes with vignetters, soft focus filters for skin (just like videographers today), and sometimes CC filters or graduated ND filters (to hold back a sky for instance). That meant understanding light quality, DIRECTION, and proper exposure. Fast forward to today and every YT shooter and 30-something I see IRL, backlights their portraits. They shoot into the light and eschew the use of lens hoods. Flare is their friend. Which is great, if you want your work to look like everyone else. My Leica Minilux was a fav, along with my Contax T2, but only for personal use. These cameras lack the ability to create a custom negative. So your lab is in control. They take your negative (the original RAW file) and create a singular, finite exposure. Be it TIFF or JPEG. The scanner operator is in control of your final image.
Thank you for sharing your perspective! My dad’s been a professional photographer for 50 years and made the transition to digital around the same time you did. He told me all about the filters they would make and extent that they would go to to make the custom negatives. My Minilux images are definitely just personal images
Did I fail to understand which were film and which were digital? My guess would be the digital shots are darker whilst the film shots the lighter ones...!
As a pro shooter who transitioned from film to digital 25 years ago Lukas, I'd like to offer a different perspective on film vs. digital. It's all about control. In the 90s, professional photographers worked hard to create a custom negative, so we didn't have to pay the lab for an expensive custom print. We used matte boxes with vignetters, soft focus filters for skin (just like videographers today), and sometimes CC filters or graduated ND filters (to hold back a sky for instance). That meant understanding light quality, DIRECTION, and proper exposure. Fast forward to today and every YT shooter and 30-something I see IRL, backlights their portraits. They shoot into the light and eschew the use of lens hoods. Flare is their friend. Which is great, if you want your work to look like everyone else. My Leica Minilux was a fav, along with my Contax T2, but only for personal use. These cameras lack the ability to create a custom negative. So your lab is in control. They take your negative (the original RAW file) and create a singular, finite exposure. Be it TIFF or JPEG. The scanner operator is in control of your final image.
Thank you for sharing your perspective! My dad’s been a professional photographer for 50 years and made the transition to digital around the same time you did. He told me all about the filters they would make and extent that they would go to to make the custom negatives. My Minilux images are definitely just personal images
I think you proved the point that it doesn’t have to be a showdown-that they are different experiences with different outputs, each enjoyable.
Definitely, the title is a bit “tongue in cheek”
Did I fail to understand which were film and which were digital? My guess would be the digital shots are darker whilst the film shots the lighter ones...!
Sorry I could have made it clearer! Digital is the first image shown, and film is second
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Thanks for letting me know...!