I mentioned on another thread that I'd shot some pics using both digital and film cameras at various points while I was in Door County last week. I want to share here at least one set of comparison pics. These are not exactly the same image as I was using a 14 mm ultrawide angle lens on my F5 and the digital won't go to that wide of an angle, but these were shot pretty much back-to-back within a minute or two of one another.

First, the film version, shot on Furji Velvia professional slide film:



The image shot on film was shot before the digital that follows and has the advantage of the last of the warm setting sun direct light that the digital doesn't have (compare the pier). But, look also at the richness of the blues in both. The slide wasn't tweaked colorwise for posting... the digital was to bring up the colors a little better.



For my nickel, the film version of the above pair wins hands down in terms of the richness of the color, but, what do you think? I'd be interested in hearing folks thoughts here.

I've got to scan a slide for another pair that I'll post later.

Gary

Gary, do you remember how long the exposure was on the film version?

And also with the recent extremely hot days with the high ozone we have had some nice soft orange sunsets, what would you recomend for shooting (time/apreture) directly into a sunset laced picture. I know using AE the camera would leave the foreground dark compensating for the sun.

Gary, that first photo is a real beauty but the 2nd one shows some nice reflections in the water.

First, my apologies on the lens used. That was a 17-35 mm f2.8 lens at 17 mm rather than my 14 mm. I was running from memory there and while it was obviously a wide angle, I was shooting with both lenses that night and got it backwards. After I downloaded the shooting data from the camera in the wee hours this morning, I caught the mistake. The exposure, Mark, was 1/60th sec at f 5.6 handheld.

As for your question regarding shooting toward the sunset. There are a couple of options. First, if there's something there that you'd like to silhouette, like a lighthouse, just let the metering system in the camera do it's thing and you'll get a silhouette of the lighthouse. A better choice is to pick a region of the sky that is what you'd like to be an average color, be it blue, or orange, or whatever. Set your camera into the manual exposure mode and either center-weighted or spot metering mode and take a meter reading in the region you're using for a reference point. Set the exposure correctly for that region and th en recompose and shoot at whatever your exposure setting was. You'll get the sky correctly exposed but if the sun is prominent, it's going to get blown out. So, you sort of end up having to juggle what it is that you want in the image. Your best bet is when you can partially obscure the sun behind something to balance the exposure a little better or to wait until it's just below the horizon. There are a couple of posts in a thread on here that I posted called "backlight" that give some examples of what I'm talking about.

Hope this helps some.

Gary

Here's the link to the Backlight thread I was talking about:
http://www.lighthousekeepers.com/forums/Forum40/HTML/000068.html



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Hi Gary, Both photos look great. The first one looks like a real picture postcard; the second looks more realistic, i.e. what the eye would see. Dan

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2.5 Megapixel Digital, $600 Camera w/ Lense

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Fuji Velvia Slide Film, $2,200 Camera w/ Lense

Film versus Digital, it's all about the type of photos you want to take (landscape, wildlife, sports, etc...), development costs and media storage.

Sean
http://www.gstimages.com


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Gary, was a polarizer used with the Velvia? Of course I'm partial to the slide version- both nice shots, as well as the ones by Sean.

Bud

My "money's" on the film shot, Gary; the digital shot "pales" in comparison and makes me think "wimpy" as an adjective for how it compares. I'll take the gorgeous, deeper blues any day of the week (as you know)!

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Terry (Only my mother, brothers & sisters call me Teresa) Forrest

Great pictures of "MINI RED" !

Is that what they call Sturgeon Bay?

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Terry (Only my mother, brothers & sisters call me Teresa) Forrest

I've heard the Sturgeon Bay north pierhead light referred to as both "minired" and "big red" by Sturgeon Bay locals. Personally, being from Michigan, I'd like to see "Big Red" reserved for the lighthouse up the road in Holland as it's pretty much universally known on this side of the big pond!

Garyk