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Originally Posted by VINMAN
I still like to shoot with film. I have an old Konica Autoreflex T that still takes incredible pictures. Plus a Minolta maxxum. I know digital has come a long way, but you can never beat the quality of standard film.
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That's the point - it's now getting to a point where you actually CAN!
The "grains" in conventional film are only so small - one reason why you can only blow up a film photograph so far before it starts getting "grainy". Also the reason (as I'm sure you know) why professional photography uses slow, fine-grain (low-ASA) film, which requires a ton of light to expose. I've done a ton of 35mm photography on 25 ASA film which is a pain to work with (lighting is a pain) but enables me to blow up the photos to very large sizes (11x17+) without any visible loss of crispness. If I'd done it with 400 or 1000 film yeah it'd be a lot easier, but the actual "information" would be less, since the grains are so much larger - and this would be evident if trying to enlarge the image.
The new digital cameras are actually getting to resolutions that approximate the same "information" level as conventional film. The number of pixels is approximating the number of grains in the regular film. This is a HUGE milestone and actually makes digital photography as a medium a lot more "legit" - at least in my mind. Pretty cool stuff...