Every time I write about photos taken on a smartphone, I want to go back to the film era. When shooting with a digital DSLR, I don't want to think about film cameras so often.
I can try to explain.
Pictures on a digital SLR camera in quality have long since flown into space relative to film ones.
And pictures from a smartphone have only recently crossed the threshold of 35 mm film quality.
Smartphones have surpassed both in detail and in dynamic range.
That's just not necessary to say that with the help of an ultra-expensive film scanner, you can get the best quality of a picture from a film frame!
Was there such a thing in the film era?
I want to compare exactly the quality of the era.
That is, in film times there were no digital scanners – photographs were obtained using contact printing on photo paper.
And this is a big loss in quality, since at this stage of taking the picture everything depended on the resolution of the magnifier lens, as well as the physical properties of photo paper and reagents.
You took a picture by Leica and a cool Kodachrome film...but what's the use if you have a photo enlarger from the Soviet suitcase and a developer made by USSR?
And with a smartphone, everything is clear: the higher the price, the higher the quality.
And very few people print photos now.
And on the Internet, the quality is unified, that is, as you took a picture, so others see it.
On the one hand, there was the very entourage of creating a picture, a whole long process from the moment of shooting to the finished image.
But after all, everyone wanted efficiency, to quickly see the footage.
And so we got lightning-fast efficiency (after pressing the button in the camera, the picture can immediately be published in the social network), but immediately all missed by the entourage of the past.
I believe that this old frequency does not let go ...
Many enthusiasts are so stuck in the past that they spend a lot of money on photographing on film.
What to hide, I wouldn't mind taking pictures. There is something warm about this old frequency... But it has become too expensive...
To be continued...