Monday, October 06, 2014

Difference between Film Camera and Digital Camera

I used to take photos till several years ago by film camera, not by digital camera.
And much earlier period, I liked taking black and white photos and printing myself.

When we take picture by single-lens reflex camera, we see target or scene through finder. The view is almost the same as the one to projected to the film inside camera. But accurately saying, it is not exactly the same.

During the image is being projected to the film, during such a short period, our view from the finder are closed. In a sense, taking photo was an art which will reserve the view at the moment when we close our eyes like a blink......

In another words, we can also say taking picture is a technique to reserve optical movements which we never see.

That's why photos were always full of mysterious attraction.
And the key was that missing short time distance of say 1/60, 1/125 or whatever seconds.
Between I did blink and open my eyes again, world was something like this! that 's what we saw after receiving printed photos which needed some ceremonial procedure.
Recorded optical movements in such a short time distance!

All the photographers are sometimes misunderstood, that they are selling what they saw.
The opposite. Professional photographers were always selling what they didn't see......

Now things are changing so much different.
Because philosophy of Digital camera is totally opposite of that of Film camera.

Everything is too much obvious and no mysterious experience through photo shooting.
Too much exposure makes everything too much flat. No unreasonable attraction, no sense of cultural Eros.

Digital camera is so much convenient and useful, I admit. The time needed it.
But we sometimes better be conscious about how things are changing.

(to be continued......)

Distance between Film camera experience and Digital camera experience
Distance embedded in a photo
Experience of printing in dark room
Distance between Taking pictures and real life

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