Film vs Digital – Case Study; Tawas Point Lighthouse
Hello Gang! Well, I just received my film scans from the Lomolab at Lomography and an interesting thing has happened. I shot the Tawas Point Lighthouse back on August 18, 2012 (East Tawas, Michigan) both using my Olympus Pen E-PL1 digital camera and my Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera. Now, I will go on record as a big fan of the Olympus Pen E-PL1. I love that little camera. Well, I love my Hassy too! But, here is a case for why I still shoot film. I had color slide film in the Hasselblad and had it cross processed at Lomography. Most notably, I must have had my E-6 film processed in C-41 chemicals. But you be the judge. Which shot do you prefer? The first shot is with the Olympus Pen E-PL1 digital camera.
Tawas Point Lighthouse shot with Olympus Pen E-PL1
Okay. Now here is the shocker. (Nice job on the cross processing Lomography) Okay, another point to make – am I really sending my shots from the Hasselblad 500C to Lomography for processing? Hee… This is the shot from the Hasselblad 500C medium format FILM camera…
Tawas Point Lighthouse shot with Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera and cross processed E-6 slide film
You have two shots side by side. I like both. I really do. But, somehow, I like the Hassy’s shot a little more. What do you think? This is why ladies and gentlemen that we still shoot film! Yes, film is not dead! Here is proof the exceptional pictures can come from both digital and film cameras (even in 2012)! The same subject, the same lighting can produce two vastly different results! One of which was a pleasant surprise when I received the email with my films scans from Lomography earlier today. Woo-hoo!
Paris Lomography
Paris_Lomography-6, originally uploaded by spakulsk.
Another shot of Paris from January 2011 when I was in the middle of my Lego minifigure 365 project. I stated a couple days ago that I really enjoyed shooting the city in January. Here is the Cathedral of Notre Dame shot with my Lomography Diana Mini camera with color slide film cross processed (just at Target 1 hour photo). The gray overcast day led to an interesting sky with the cross processing…
Autumnal Beauty
Autumnal Beauty, originally uploaded by spakulsk.
An image of a pathway close to home taken with the hipstamatic app and then sent through the cross process app…
Josie cross processed
Josie cross processed, originally uploaded by spakulsk.
Here is an image taken from the regular camera app on my iPhone and then running through the Cross Process app twice afterwards. Josie posing for the camera this morning…
Testing more camera apps. I like this one!
Glassware
Glassware during a dinner outing in Székesfehérvár, Hungary – August 23, 2011 – shot with my Rolleicord V with Fuji Provia color slide film. Cross processed then added the sepia tone in Photoshop Lightroom…
Rolleicord, Budapest
A shot overlooking Budapest from the Citadell. Shot with my Rolleicord V with Fuji Provia film, ISO 400. Post processing in Photoshop Lightroom for the sepia tone…
Metro
Paris_Lomography-3, originally uploaded by spakulsk.
A Parisian Metro sign shot during dusk with the Diana Mini. This camera requires A Lot of light and hence why only the light above the sign is clearly visible. But this image still is interesting nonetheless. I like the so called “lens flare” around the lamp…
Double Exposure
Paris_Lomography-2, originally uploaded by spakulsk.
One of the fun things about the Diana Mini is that it is a completely manual plastic camera. That means you have to remember to advance the film manually after every time you take a shot. Or else you will get multiple exposures on a frame. I don’t know if the double exposure was accidental or deliberate. Ether way, I like the outcome…
Parisian Lomography
Paris_Lomography-1, originally uploaded by spakulsk.
Here is a shot of the Eiffel Tower in Paris taken with my Diana Mini camera in January of this year. The color slide film was cross processed in C-41…
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Thoughts?