The Bigger Picture Part I

As a younger photographer I have very little experience with film. I have never been and never will be one of those photographers raving about the "look" of film. I know nothing about emulsion, developers, and fixers. I hear enlarger and I think bicubic interpolation, I hear negative and I think 16-bit RAW file, I hear...well you get the idea. All talk of darkrooms and film is not my language of photography, it is something of a relic; a history lesson to look back on and appreciate. When I was a kid most of my time spent on anything photography related centered around image processing. I'd shoot with my moms' Fuji Discovery Point and Shoot and scan the photos. I figured one day I'd get myself something like the Olympus C-3000 . When I was not working on images in Photoshop I read about shutter speed, aperture, iso, and all that fun stuff. I decided to spend all my extra money on software (as a techie all those camera settings seemed easy enough) and keep shooting with a point and shoot camera. This allowed me to work on the one thing that I believe can't really be taught, composition. Eventually I got my first point and shoot digital, a 1MP Fuji A101. Fast forward to 2010 and we have the subject of our article: How do multiple camera systems compare? And the ultimate question can those film snobs really tell the difference between film and digital? Stay tuned!

Unfair advantage:



The 36 x 23.9 mm Nikon D700 sensor compared to the 44x33 mm sensor found in the Mamiya/Leaf DL28. It is interesting to note that the DL28 does not have a full-frame 645 sensor. It is actually a 1.3 crop of the 645 frame, we will take a look at the 56x36 full-frame sensor later.