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Film is still hard to beat
itsnotmeyouknow:
While my Pentax 645D is in Tokyo being repaired, I gave my 645 lenses a workout in Korea with a few different kinds of film. I don't believe that digital is YET able to completely replicate the effect.
Got some film developed and scanned at 15mp in Seoul for the princely sum of £4 each film (about $6). These are from a trip to an island about 80km from Seoul except one from Seoul itself
Pentax 645N FA 45 - 85 at 45mm and f/16 1/60 Kodak Ektra 100
what-a-lot-of-statues!-Ektra by singingsnapper, on Flickr
Pentax 645N FA 45-85 at 50mm f/11 1/160 Fuji Reala 100
Buddha-with-ice-cream-Reala by singingsnapper, on Flickr
and the one from the streets of Seoul
Pentax 645N FA 45 - 55 at 45mm 1/160 f/11 Kodak Ektra 100
Looking-down-the-road-in-Gangnam by singingsnapper, on Flickr
AndysRollei:
Nice!
I love film as well, and would agree that it is hard to replicate the look of film effectively, and probably wont be able to for some time. I use a few rolls of film in my Rolleiflex every know and then and often like they way they look over my digital stuff, it just looks so much cooler, and has more character.
Andy
paul13walnut5:
As nice as these are, it's when it comes to mono's that film really wins out. No digital image comes close to what I got from AGFA Scala, or can get from Ilford XP2.
leGreve:
You assume that digital is striving to be like film? Why would you assume that?
The feel is nothing but nostalgia, and is as such useful for anything else than recreating a certain feeling.
Digital is its own... Otherwise you might take the step further and say that a Kodak film anno 2012 is not quite achieving what the old camera obscuras could achieve.
If you want the film look by all means go ahead, but film is not hard to beat... it's been beat years ago. Both in pixel count terms and qualitywise.
Besides digital is far more efficient to one's workflow and you have photoshop to help you make what ever look you want. Don't try to make digital into film or compare it to eachother... there's absolutely no point.
mws:
Nice, I just got a Fuji GW690ii of ebay, and I can't wait to run some film through it this weekend.
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