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most of the time i'd agree with you cos i do love digi

but 5X4 cameras with digital backs are massively expensive and you just can't get the quality or aperture from a DSLR

(gobbledegook blurs the line between lurking and stalking, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 10:49, archived)

BOLLOCKS

my nikon can happily do a 32 aperture and six minute exposure

admitiedly, I'd have to hold down the button for 6 minutes, but nonetheless

/edit if you think I'm getting mouthy, please let me know, I'm having a very stressful day in work, I'm quitting smoking and my cat is dying so I may well be over-reacting

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VampireMonkeyOnSpeed a super sexy sexual sex terrorist sex, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 10:55, archived)

I find all this really interesting

the girlfriend has a photography degree, and I have limited crime-scene photography training. We've debated film v digital a lot.

She loves digi but maintains there is a time and place for film. I also think she gets a kick out of being able to develop her stuff by herself.

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NinjaBadger hides in the bushes and gives you TB., Sat 2 Feb 2008, 10:59, archived)

there is nothing as cool as printing your own film images

the bit where it magically appears on the paper is the best

(gobbledegook blurs the line between lurking and stalking, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 11:02, archived)

Some things should always remain analogue...

...like Synthesisers. I think digital wins over film though purely for the instant gratification. I have used one roll of 35mm film in my whole life, and only about 7 of the photos turned out.

(theSHALROTH Gaga's tits are on fucking fire!!!, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 11:08, archived)

Hmm..

Crime scene photo training?

Don't you still have to use film only for that? Just wondered coz that's what I got told waaaaaaaay back in the mists of time when I tried to become a photographer for the police.

I likes film, but rarely use it these days..

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Equus is still lurking, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 11:16, archived)

Digital is just starting to become more widley used

with the advent digital watermark systems and such.

Also, you have to keep all the original pictures you take on the memory card. Even if they're crap or all blurry, you keep them. Keeps the chain of evidence intact.

And if you DO have to change them in anyway, you make and edit a copy. The system will then log every pixel that's changed and how it has changed.

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NinjaBadger hides in the bushes and gives you TB., Sat 2 Feb 2008, 11:20, archived)

Ah,

Sounds much better..

Didn't get any training out of it, got told after the first interviewy thing that I was the wrong sort for the job (damn my socialist parents and their protesting ways)

Still, would've been an interesting (and probably depressing) job.. Trying to find the materiality and textures of a knifing, maybe aim to do a certain crime scene in the theme of a biblical ethic and all that..

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Equus is still lurking, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 11:27, archived)

over-reacting? on b3ta? never.

however your nikon cannot do f64 or 5X4 large format images thats 10,200X13,600 pixel images

(gobbledegook blurs the line between lurking and stalking, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 11:01, archived)

well, now

I have actually produced a number of 100,000 X 21,000 images via the magic of photostitching

admitiddly I haven't tried any long exposure ones like that and I'm not sure it would quite work

but more importantly at those kind of dimensions my computer crashes any time I try to open the final stitched image

all things are possible

well I'm not so sure about f64, none of my lenses can do that

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VampireMonkeyOnSpeed a super sexy sexual sex terrorist sex, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 11:06, archived)

photostitching has the problem of distortions in the perpective

(yes i know you can shop that out but EFFORT!)
its all debatable but i like using film and digital cos you can do stuff with one that you can't with the other.
versatility is the name of the game

(gobbledegook blurs the line between lurking and stalking, Sat 2 Feb 2008, 11:10, archived)