On 1/28/2019 8:35 AM, Jan Steinman wrote:
From: Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
...a back-of-the-napkin calculation is that I would have spent
somewhere north of $25,000 on film and processing if I did.
Really? REALLY?
One big difference between film and digital is that with film, you try to make
every shot count, whereas with digital, you just fire away and sort it out
later.
In looking over my archive, I see that I literally took 1/10th as many photos
when it was film.
And yet, for me, because I can't speak for anyone else, my keeper rate went UP, at least in my first years of digital.
Yup, I took many more shots, AND I found a higher percentage of them pleasing. I had the feeling that my photography had
improved a lot with digital. So I actually looked through my late film photos (scanned) and early digital photos, and
confirmed this possibly counter intuitive situation to be true.
One of my imagined reasons for this is the constraint of film and processing cost. Always thinking about that in the
background means I hardly ever took "risky" shots, alternative angles, unusual subjects, and so on. With digital, the
constraint vanished, and I felt free to experiment. (Also, no occasional 38 shots missed to mis-loaded film. ;-) )
Another possible reason is the instant feedback of the LCD and the quick feedback of viewing on the computer within
hours, instead of weeks, or more. Combined with EXIF data, this feedback loop may have improved my understanding of how
what I do, and set, affects results. That I was terrible at taking notes while shooting film meant I seldom actually
knew what settings I had used.
Yet another contributing factor may have been sensor size. My first digicam was a P&S with 1/2.7" sensor, and the second
was APS-C. As I am almost always looking for more DoF, the move from FF to smaller sensors may have helped get what I
wanted.
Alternate Moose
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