Berndt
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Post by Berndt on Nov 12, 2011 21:38:45 GMT -5
Frankly speaking, I wouldn't say, that modern digital cameras are taking better pictures in those kind of sceneries ( nor that it is much easier to do so ). First of all, film has a wider range of density, so there is definitely no HDR needed for taking a decent sunset picture ( it's mostly not needed anyway for capturing this kind of scenery ). And second, many digital cameras do not have a real mechanical aperture, what can be a decisive point. For example, I took a classic picture of the "Diamond Mt. Fuji", when the sun is going down exactly in the center of the mountain twice a year with two cameras at the same time: With an analog TLR from 1954 and my GH1 ... and there are worlds between those pictures, even using the same settings. Closing the aperture completely ( f 22 ), the sunbeams are getting perfectly dispersed in detail on the analog camera, while everything around the sun just looks like a shapeless blotch on a digital sensor, like on this picture here as well. The nuances in the colors of the sky are also completely different on real film. In many situations, digital cameras are already pretty good and can produce sharper and more contrasty pictures than film ... for a sunset pictures, I would vote for film and a mechanical camera ;-) www.lomography.com/photos/13229622
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