Back around the end of last year, PBS decided to do a small segment putting film against digital photography: a debate that’s been going on for years now. The segment put two Canon cameras up to shooting the same scene in many different scenarios. And without looking at the images at 100%, we can see that it’s quite tough to tell the difference between the two unless you have a trained and skilled set of eyes.
The video also brings up a better point that is only realized when you think deeper: real people and clients won’t sit there pixel peeping at your images. Instead, they’ll want to look at it as a whole. It also demonstrates the use of filters to make digital images look like film.
What it ultimately proves though is that telling the differences is really tough to do in some situations though in other situations film will also need much more careful work where digital is more forgiving. Of course, that statement only applies to color film and color digital. It would be interesting to put black and white film and digital up against one another. The video featuring Film vs Digital Photography is after the jump.
