Answeres NEEDED TONIGHT (11-28-04) for paper due tommarow!

[jchnhtfd]

Jim -- I'm really sorry I didn't see this yesterday; as someone else said on the forum, must have been the turkey... and I hope you look back at this.

I use both. However, my son the professional has switched entirely to digital for everything -- but he uses a very very formidable camera (top end Canon). Digital has, for those with a decent computer and really good software (read: Photoshop, at a grand a copy) has almost overwhelming advantages now. The resolution was the biggest disadvantages, but the top end cameras now have enough resolution to compete with all but the very best colour films. Always assuming you have the computing horsepower to cope with 120 megabyte files (that's not a misprint: 120 megabytes per picture, on occasion).

[M636C]

I was just running out of room to store the negatives and slides, and since a lot of my photographs get published, being in digital form was as advantage. I can e-mail an image to a magazine if I need to, and don't have to worry about getting it returned, as you would with a slide. Also, you can check the photo straight after taking it to see if you need to take another for any reason (confusing background, clipped image or similar). With Windows XP, you get a simple instruction for a "slide show" on the computer screen, which suits showing it to friends in many cases.

Peter

[mucable]

I have thousands of slides but am switching over to digital. Here's why:

As miniwyo indicated there isn't much point to slides anymore. So I've switched to 35mm print film, but when I have it processed, I get the CD with it. This gives me the advantage of manipulating the image using PhotoShop because just about any image can be improved by a tighter crop, or by adjusting the exposure value. Beyond these simple improvements, you can do some incredible things to your images, that's what I'm interested in!

So with a slick computer, the right software and a really good color printer, you have a darkroom available where you don't have to turn out the lights or mess with chemicals. You don't even have to stand up. This is probably one of the top 10 best contributions to photography.

[miniwyo]

I am partial to 35mm and digital. I enjoy Taking pictures with my 35mm SLR camera but i like to be ablt to put the image straight on my computer so I can make it lighter or darkerand whatnot. But I also like to have a hard print to look at.

I just don't see the point in slides, if its digital you can do basically the same thing with almost any photo imaging software that you have.

[bnsfkline]

I am typing a paper on Digital Photography and would like to know of what you guys use and you you prefer it.
If you prefer Digital....expain why you prefer it over 35 MM or slides?
If you prefer 35 mm or slides, explain why you prefer it over digital?
I Need as many answers by 12 midnight