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What’s the difference between analog and digital photography?
Which camera should we use?
Either you use the analog camera or digital camera, the purpose is same capture awesome pictures or movements. So the question is which camera should be used? Which one is the best choice for taking photos?
Difference between analog and digital camera/photography:
Analog camera/photography
We need to know about the two types of the camera before going into details. The basic difference between both the camera is the way how they capture the images. In analog camera, the film is the most sensitive part. Analog camera is also called film camera, capture images on film which are processed later on to develop the photos.
Films are used only one time and need to develop such as transferred to photographic paper. Film photography needs more efforts than digital photography, which is considered more natural and true.
Some of the pros and cons of analog photography are:
1. The initial cost is low but the subsequent cost becomes high such as processing or printing.
2. Time-consuming while processing such as developing the prints and true or original results
4. Additional efforts are required for visualization of frame
5. Storage of images are limited to the film role
Digital camera/photography
While, on the other hand, the digital cameras have fast processing speed for your images. Digital cameras have no film, rather use memory cards. There are sensors in digital camera called CCD/CMOS which captures the light and transforms it into the picture.
The image is processed in seconds and send to your storage card. Also, we can access all the pictures or images anywhere while connected with internet WIFI. The best thing about the digital camera is its ease in use.
You can use it easily and can store your picture or images in storage devices like external hard drives or CD drive or even in pen drives. Digital photography is easier to produce results and has a fun.
Majority of the people think that buying a brand new or better camera will solve their all problems of photography which is not true. Either you are using analog or digital camera, you must need a good skill for taking or capturing images. These include knowledge of the lighting aspect, film and shutter speed. For the digital camera, you need to use the ISO setting.
ISO is the sensitivity of your sensor to the light and its setting depends on the scene you are photographing. The rule is simple for ISO setting, the more light, the lower you will set the ISO value.
Usually, ISO values ranging from 100 to 6400 in new cameras. These are some of the recommendations for ISO values while taking photos
1. If you are taking photos on the bright or sunny day then 100 or 200 ISO values are best suited for your camera
2. In case there is cloudy weather, a high value of ISO can be used such as 400
3. If you are doing an indoor photoshoot without flash, then it’s better to use 800 ISO value or even 1600 ISO value for very low light situations.
We should understand the ISO value. Why it is important? Digital cameras have auto ISO. If you are in a hurry or you don’t know how to manually adjust the best ISO value, the camera will do it for you but it will catch more noise factors in your photos. ISO testing is very important.
If you keep the ISO low, it will give you the best results in image quality, however, it is not the case all the time. We recommend that you test ISO of your camera in situations like very low light, sports events or action photos.
However, ISO tolerance level depends on your camera and of course at your choice too. You should keep watch on the noise factor in your photos.
The little is the noise factor the more will be your photos smooth in look.
Some of the pros and cons of digital photography are:
1. The initial cost is high as compared to analog photography
2. Less processing time
3. Results can be edited/or highly manipulated and not considered natural and true like analog photography
4. Approach for the shooting is easy and quick
5. The storage capacity of the pictures is very vast, depending upon the SD memory card