For most people the day of loading film into a camera are long gone, and today more people buy digital cameras than traditional film based ones. It isn’t hard to see why. With the cost of digital cameras down to the point where it is no more expensive to buy a good quality digital camera than a film based one, there’s no financial reason any more. Not only that, but when it comes to the cost of film, and processing, there is a very great deal to be said for the savings represented by a digital camera.
Buying a 24 exposure film for a traditional camera could set you back about five dollars. To have that film processed could cost you another ten dollars. That’s sixty dollars for a hundred photographs. Using a digital camera you could take as many photographs as you please - hundreds, thousands or millions, and it will never have to cost you a single cent.
How many times, with a film based camera, have you wondered whether you got the picture all right? Did someone blink? Was the light all right? Did something blow across the lens? Was it how you imagined? There’s no way of telling, and your choices are either take another one or two pictures - all of which wastes precious film and costs money, or risk it, and find out days or weeks later. By that time, of course, the opportunity to take the image again may well have been lost forever.
With a digital camera you can often see the photo immediately you have taken it, by looking at the built in LCD screen. This allows you to see the image, and even zoom in closely to make sure that no one is blinking, and everything looks just right. If it isn’t right, you can easily delete it, or simply take another one.
In fact, if you’re trying to take a picture of something moving, such as an animal, a child or a boat, you can easily just keep on clicking, taking dozens, scores or even hundreds of photos of the subject. Even if you have to discard 99% of these pictures later, the chances are good that you’ll find at least one or two that are absolutely perfect.
In this way, the odds are greater that you will end up with the sort of image that could have taken a professional photographer a lot of time, effort and expense to set up, but with almost no effort on your part, and certainly very little expense.
A few years ago it was true that film based cameras could still capture images at a higher resolution, but these days digital cameras are available with such a high pixel count that there really is little difference. In some cases it may even be that the digital camera’s picture quality is better than a film based camera’s picture after it has been scanned in.
Being able to easily transfer those pictures directly to a computer, edit them, organise them, and email them or upload to the internet so that you can share them with friends and family make digital cameras one of the must have tools today.
By: Victor Epand
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