Forum: Photography


Subject: Film B&W vs Digital B&W?

Dianthus opened this issue on Dec 03, 2006 · 12 posts


MGTF posted Mon, 04 December 2006 at 5:07 PM

It does not make me a master but possibly experienced would be a better description, I have 35 plus years of B & W wet darkroom work but I am now satisfied with the results I get using the digital medium.
I still use the same amount of imagination, technical consideration for the subject to achieve the desired result as I would have done with a film camera, deciding on the required settings etc will make the postwork a much simpler task.
My personal opinion is that the final image must be visualised in your mind when you make the exposure, hence the importance of adjusting  the camera settings in a way to record what you have visualised prior to releasing the shutter.
I am certainly more productive ( even as an amateur ) when I do all I can at the camera stage to minimise the amount of time I have to spend on postwork.
The camera is a photographic tool in the same way as a spanner is a tool to a car mechanic, giving me a top quality spanner will never make me a mechanic, knowledge is king !