Differences between Darkroom and Digital

Film and digital are very different techniques. Digital is more efficient and cost effective, and easier to manipulate. These days most photographers use digital. With digital you can see the image straight away, you can delete all the images you don't like, no processing and use of chemicals, you can check the quality of the enlarged image before printing, you can shoot hundreds and thousands of images at no cost because you can just delete them and start again if you want to. You can email the images, put them on websites etc, can mimick film too, and you can turn the images into black and white, and airbrush them as much as you want to create the perfect image. Digital is more effective, after you have bought all your equipment.

Film is different and more expensive because you can't reuse film and there are only 36 exposures. You can't see the images straight away, you have to get the film developed and then make the contact sheets, and you couldn't airbrush them in the past, but you can scan in negatives now and airbrush them and do the same as you do with digital, and the colour is better. For example, if you compare a black and white digital image with a film black and white film image, the film is definately much better, it has better contrast and quality and tone, and in the dark room, and you can do a lot of manipulation with it to get the contrast just how you want it. Digital overtook film, but now that you can scan in negatives and do more or less the same with film, I think film will make a come back.

I like that you can take digital photos and see them straight away, and do tests with digital cameras, but then I always want to take the real photos with the film camera, it just seems more professional, more 'real'.