Film Versus Digital Photography

1

Myths About Costs For Digital Photography

Because of the new technology that is in use with digital photography, many people are under the impression that it is a very costly hobby to take up. What many people do not realize is that this is simply not true. There are many misconceptions about the cost and some of those will be put to rest right here.

The cost of a standard digital camera that one would use to preserve memories of their family and vacations is just slightly more than the cost of a high quality 35mm camera. Each producing pictures of about the same level. The difference is that with the 35mm you will need to purchase film as well as the camera. Then one will be faced with the cost of developing as well. That is not to say that these costs are not worth the preservations of your memories. However for the cost of about three rolls of film you can usually find a memory card to use with your camera. So consider three rolls of film versus one memory card. Approximately 72 pictures versus 200. However, here is the kicker, if you are to download the pictures from the memory card onto your computer, you can reuse the memory card and refill it with 200 more pictures at no additional cost. Once you have uploaded these pictures onto your computer you can view them and decide which ones you will want to have copies.

Once you figure out how much money you would have to spend on film and then how much money you would save on the use of a memory card you will realize that in itself makes a digital camera a worthwhile investment. However not only does it save money, but time as well. With the ability to order your prints online or with a photo quality printer be able to print them yourself, your timesavings is incredible as well. Consider not having to run to the store to drop off the film, being able to pick the pictures that you want to have printed instead of having a whole roll and half of which are bad shots, you are saving time and money in one fell swoop. In all the myths about digital photography being overly expensive are exactly that myths that need not apply. It is simply something new that some people will fear until they are used to it .

About the Author

Deniece Mize wrote the Article “Myths About Costs For Digital Photography” and recommends you visit http://www.freeinformation4you.com for more information Digital Photography

Zacuto Great Camera Shootout 2010: It's all About Latitude


film versus digital photography5
film versus digital photography5

Film Versus Digital Photography

1

International versus Indian Photography

Recent years have see an increase in photography exhibitions, Bollywood films that touch the topic of becoming a photojournalist (Wake Up Sid), wildlife photographer (3 Idiots) or even fashion photography (Fashion) as well as photography courses in Mumbai.

Such an close up on the subject has inspired a good portion of the urban and 2-3 tier cities' Indian youth to take up Art streams at University and has also made parents rethink their pre 90's economic liberation fears and the entire socio economic safety of pushing their kin into becoming an Engineer or Doctor.

On the other hand, this new importance given to photography, has also inspired and attracted to the big cities of India, many international photographers who are said to be more into abstract, conceptual and creative photography than famous Indian photographers such as Raghu Rai, who are known for their photojournalist skills and aesthetics considered ‘classic' or ‘realistic' in nature - people, landscapes and what is blatantly recognized as ‘travel photography' or "the India of Lonely Planet".

Whether all this fits into theoretical debates on Art or to the various theory discourses accepted by the international photographers' community and the Art snobby/bitchy fraternity, is up to the reader/thinker to decide, but no one can deny that if we are looking for a unique style of photography to be called Indian, we can surely look at every single bharatiya wedding album sitting in the dusty corner of any kind of accommodation of any kind of society strata in India – be it a slum in Dharavi, a penthouse in Bandra, a chawl in Lower Parel or a historical building in Colaba.

Half of the job in the business of wedding photography relies on retouching softwares used with digital files and cameras and that allow photographers to bring out the creativity accumulated during their IT and graphic design studies. People and married couples are copied and pasted in floral, architectural and ‘spaceshipeal' backgrounds; colors are emphasized and saturated; people's faces are on the gothic white skin tones and everybody needs to essentially look very serious, sad and solemn in the face of a new scary wedded life.

Has anyone seen an exhibition on Indian wedding photography? Is this form of clicking considered Art? Folk Art or Commercial Art? Will any of the new generations of photographers embrace this career path?

Some international photographers and artists would surely define Indian wedding photography a popular, kitsch or even folk art form, while Indian photographers despise these media products and do not consider them as part as anything. Does this repeat overrun issues of the Kantian philosophy of aesthetics popular in the 18th century? Has not the artistic clock stopped into the past by 300 years for these critics/artist/individuals who are not even interested in this form of media production? Is Postmodernism only part of the Global North?

Many questions to answer and many photographs to be clicked and looked in India. International photographers escaping the first decade of millennium recessions can surely become refuges of the great virgin lands of India. Art galleries better keep their doors wide open.

About the Author

The Author of this article is a Professional Photographer

my photo kits: film & digital


film versus digital photography5
film versus digital photography5
film versus digital photography5