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Author: Stan Cox II
I was reading a piece the other day, written by a photographer who offers both film and digital capture to his customers. I am always interested to hear other professional photographer's opinions on the subject. I was a film devotee for over 30 years, and only made the switch to digital a little over
In the piece I mentioned, the photographer/author sited the fact that film is more 'forgiving' than digital when it comes to proper exposure. This is certainly true. Especially in the highlights of the image. You can overexpose negative film by more than two stops, and still get details in the highlights.
For those of you who aren't familiar with photo-geek speak, for any given scene framed in the viewfinder of a camera, there is a correct exposure to the light coming from the scene and onto the film, or digital sensor. Over exposure by one "stop" means twice as much light as should be getting to the film or sensor, is getting to it. Two stops over is twice that much more, or four times the amount of light as the correct exposure.
Do that to your digital capture and there's no recovering data from the highlights. Sorry, it's gone! Actually, positive film, or "slide" film also has a much lower tolerance to overexposure, so not all film is that much more 'forgiving'. But the point here is… ta DA…"Forgiving", (and may I finish the thought), of bad exposure!
The author of the piece I refer to here also is a photographer in Hawaii, as I am. He writes of how the light here changes so quickly and frequently with the trade winds blowing the clouds over the sun, then away from the sun, etc. And it is true that on many days, especially in the earlier afternoons the brightness ( Next Page )
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