3 RECORDING MEDIUMS: FILM VERSUS DIGITAL
The era of high quality digital imaging has now well and truly dawned and digital imaging has become the mainstream alternative to film and, in some areas, the dominant alternative. It is an area that all practicing photographers will be addressing seriously, if they have not already done so. The aim of this chapter is to clarify and lay bare the facts of traditional silver halide photography in comparison with those of modern digital technology.
Both film and digital image capture share many common characteristics. Both record light reflections received at the image plane onto a light-sensitive medium, with the objective of reproduction at some later stage. While the eventual output can appear very similar, ...
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