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another person who thinks film is better than digital...
You see, one of my gripes with digital photography is how brutally unforgiving the sensors are with artificial lighting and their color temperature.
Film is LESS forgiving, because it has POORER dynamic range. If he wasn't an idiot, he'd be looking at his RGB histograms post-exposure to see if he needed to apply any exposure compensation.
About five years ago, Canon eclipsed film's dynamic range and noise levels with the 10D; at anything over 400ISO the 10D had better resolution and lower noise than even the best films. They're released four cameras with improved sensors since then...
Brett, easy there slugger...
I do not have any doubts the Canon 40D I took the above photo with has a higher dynamic range than film. That is one of the reasons I purchased it in the first place. I even stated I was out that night WITH a film camera and went back to get my digital because I knew it would capture the scene more to my liking.
My main point was that after shooting for a long time on both film and digital I can guarantee that if I walked up to the same building and shot it with ANY film (negative or reversal) the differences between those 3 light sources would be much different (and I'd bet that one of the 3 light sources would pop more than the other two depending on the film type).
Yes, I have gripes with digital, but those gripes have little to do with me being an "idiot" but more so with people considering it the SAME MEDIUM as analog photography and I'm trying to get people to recognize them as two entirely different beasts (as you bluntly point out they are).
I back this up throughout my Flickr Photostream by plainly pointing out which lenses and film choices give me outcomes that I could not easily get digitally (without tons of post-processing) and also vice-versa.
- Brad