Film vs. Digital????

[Angelaine]

I have a friend who has a point and shoot digital camera which is fine by me and she also has a Nikon 35mm film camera all automatic. She is constantly telling me that her 35mm film camera takes better pictures than my Canon EOS camera. Then she is telling me that having negatives will last longer than digital photos. I am not an argumentative person and am not yet really that knowlegable in comparing digital to film cameras in quality of the photo and negatives lasting longer than digital photos. Any comments and help would be greatly appreciated as I am trying to defend my use of my EOS versus film camera. I realize people love their film cameras and that is fine with me. I just need some facts about the use of digital cameras over film. Thanks so much!

[Killjoy]

When my wife and I got married, the photographer would sell us the negatives for a certain price. That price went down every year. When I asked him why, he told me that the emulsion negatives degrade and you would not get the same print out of it that you did originally.

[TheHoff]

>>Then she is telling me that having negatives will last longer than digital photos

I'm not sure how anyone could consider this a fact. A negative is a piece of emulsion with some metal bits on it. It degrades. It scratches easily. It can become lost. If you copy it, you lose resolution each time.

A digital negative is perfect and be copied ad infinitum without any loss. Forever. period!

[nicksan]

Then she is telling me that having negatives will last longer than digital photos.

That's a good one...:lol:

[Tony-S]

I have a friend who has a point and shoot digital camera which is fine by me and she also has a Nikon 35mm film camera all automatic. She is constantly telling me that her 35mm film camera takes better pictures than my Canon EOS camera. Then she is telling me that having negatives will last longer than digital photos.

Until Kodachrome and Technical Pan come back, I'm shooting digital. Smack your friend upside the head. She'll thank you later. :)

Oh, and you spelled "Noink" wrong...

[DStanic]

I wish I had the link to ISO film vs digital. Digital whoops film in all the higher ISOs..

[steved110]

Your friend's comments are outdated - modern DSLRs, even at 'consumer' level - out resolve ordinary film easliy. Slide film takes some beating - but it is also vulnerable to storage issues, degrading, damage...and getting lost. And the 1DS II ( and now III) outresolve 35mm slide film by miles, and challenge medium format slide film.

A well-backed up digital photo archive is pretty secure, I have boxes of film negatives that weren't stored well, and would make terrible prints ( my bad!) but my digital files are , touch wood, secure - back ups on DVD and an external hard drive. And i replace my DVD backups every 12 months.

[DStanic]

CDs/DVDs are suppose to be good for 10yrs (or something like that) but I'm sure they can last much longer. If you replace them every couple of years they're guaranteed for life. Can't replace film negatives!