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Photography: Why Film is Better than Digitial.md

Why Film is Better than Digitial

Digital File Formats

  • Compressed vs. Uncompressed
    • JPEG and Raw
  • Compression - Minimizing the size of the file without degrading image quality
    • Lossy vs. Lossless
      • Lossy = losing data
      • Lossless = retaining data, in different format
  • How it looks in ruby

Film

  • What is film/how does it work
  • Why is there more information in film?
    • because the grains of silver are microscopic whereas pixels in sensors are not
  • Film vs. sensor size
  • Medium and Large format film
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