Comparing digital and film cameras
Since the digital camera has grown up it sure has changed the face of photography! Years ago you'd go out and buy a roll of film. Then run it through the camera taking pictures. When that was done you'd go into the darkroom, take the film out of the camera and place it into the film tank. Pour in the developer, turning the film reel constantly for the number of minutes stated on the film sheet. Then pour the developer out of the tank and pour in the shortstop. Turn the film reel for approximately 60 seconds. Pour the shortstop back into it's bottle and pour in the fixing solution. Most of the time ten minutes was required to fix the film. Pour the fixer back into it's bottle and hang the film up to dry. When dry you'd cut the negatives apart and place them into the slide of the enlarger. turn the enlarge on and roll the negative carrier up and down until the picture was focused correctly. Then place a sheet of photo paper in the easel and print the picture. Then put the paper into the developing tray, and watch the photo appear. That was the best part of the job, watching the photo seemingly appear like magic.From a blank sheet of paper when placed in the developing tray to a final print when developed, it was great. However, now into the shortstop tray for a few seconds. Then out of the shortstop and into the fixer for another ten minutes. Then, yep, hang the picture up to dry. Today you need a digital camera, an HDAC card, a computer and printer. Go out and take your pictures, come home, pull the card out of the camera and slide it into the computer. Bring up a photo program, in my case Picasso, and download the pictures. Then using your photo program, you adjust the photos to your liking. Finally, print them out with your printer. Easy huh?
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I enjoyed film photography. Back then (ancient history!) there wasn't anything else. However I'll have to admit that digital photography is better and a heck of a lot quicker! Thanks for the like!
Never had the time for film developing, too much going on at that time in my life.
Now spend a lot of time both taking shots and adjusting them to suit myself.
Bought some seriously high end Canon kit recently and use Lightroom and Photoshop for processing.
My hobby and love it but probably not as easy as it could be.
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I love being able to see right away if the picture came out or not. Remember when we had to take the whole roll in to be developed and sometimes nothing came out? That was always such a disappointment.
AMEN! I remember well! Stay tuned. My next blog has something on that order that happened to me.
I remember when the Polaroid was the cat's meow! Not sure they are in business anymore
Polaroid is slowly trying to make a comeback,but I'm guessing it's going to be a rough road ahead.