images RECORDING MEDIUMS: FILM AND DIGITAL

Photography is primarily about creating high quality images, whatever the recording medium chosen. That choice will be determined by a number of factors: client demands, hardware costs, education, and the desired speed and efficiency of communication.

Both film and Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) digital image capture share some common characteristics. Both record light reflections received at the image plane onto a light-sensitive medium with the objective of reproduction at some later stage. While the eventual output can appear very similar, be it a print or published page, the routes to achieve it are technologically ...

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