Digital Home Thoughts: SLR: Here's to Film

"Pro photography today often requires digital capability from capture to closure, from memory card to computer to output, in any of a dozen formats. Electronic images shoot to art directors for layout, are passed to webmasters to be posted on the Internet, or are sent to prepress and on to printers for reproduction in newspapers or magazines. Along the way, a proof may be printed to see if an image is out of whack in color, sharpness, or cropping. It's a smooth, seamless, and swift continuity, and anything that holds up the works, such as scanning prints or negatives, creates aggravation—and costs time and maybe money. A National Geographic photographer in the Gobi desert needs to do no more after a day's shooting than pick up a satellite phone and transmit all images to the magazine, where digital experts make corrections. You can't do that with film."

This is a really nicely written article by someone who clearly knows what they are talking about. It is an article about a favorite topic of ours - film vs. digital photos. The author says that while digital photographs are great, sometimes you have to bring film in to the rescue, especially to capture the highlight and lighting detail, something that is apparently lost with DSLRs. However, the kicker is that if you are a Photoshop wizard then you should be able to compensate for most things. Anyways, this short article is definitely worth the read.