joe_rogers1

<p>This is one I did recently<br>

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<p>I'll second (or third or forth...whatever) the "Digital leaves me cold" saying. I find that there is a presence and depth to film images that I've never seen replicated with digital equipment.</p>

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<p>While young (22) compared to you old skool film heads, I had to use film at uni for crime scene stuff and I do agre that it has a better selection of colours... digital images are often quite flat. They need to be developed digitally. They stand out nicer if they are over saturated a little I find. However what I dont like is someone heralding a heavily manipulated average-ish photo as a great picture... its simple an average picture with bells ans whistles tacked onto it. That said my best images taken with digital haven't 'had'<br /> to be photoshopped at all. I think parto fo the issue is that each sensor chip is different so different cameras will be different. ITs not like if everyone is using ilford FP4 then the results are repeatable. But if 1 person has a sony alpha another a cannon EOS and another a D80 then even with the same lighting, lenses and settings the results will be different.</p>

My N80 wont autofocus.. in manual mode it seems to think that it is focused as

it has the little green dot on the lower left.. in autofocus modes it focuses in

and out but doenst do anything. my F70 is fine and I've tested the lenses so its

not them. I've changed batteries too.

Any ideas ?

you ARE supposed to record the type of film, ISO, f-stop/apeture and shutter speed as well as if you used a flash you know...

mabey thats just the uk.. but lets just say that over here a disposable just doesnt cut it...

Aside from that carry batteries is jsut the same as carrying film except film cant be recharged and isnt good for the envrionment....

I'm actually a 2nd year forensic science & criminology student in the UK

our lecturer is adamant about film [iMHO she is biased against digital] but acknowledges that it is used.

After a crime scene is recorded the memory card is burned to a cd/dvd 2 times. 1 copy is then sealed and the 2nd copy is used for general use/enchancement/etc. This way in court they can say "well we actually have an unopened, untouched copy of these pictures *here*."

In addition my lecturer rebukes digital as needing to carry batteries.

I whinge that digial is just as good for CS photography because for 35mm you need *2* cameras - B&W {God I love illford xp2 super !} and a colour. On top of that you need film and most modern film SLR cameras with a photometer or even LCD need batteries anyway !

On top of that a flash unit needs batteries too !

So on this point I disagree strongly and thusly believe that the UK will eventually go digital.

However each crime lab/police force has its own regualtions and in the Uk there is no specific requirements except that

1) photos must be fit for court

2) must be a true copy (or as true as you can get without alterations)

3) chain of evidence/custody must be kept intact.

so i could use my personal camera as long as I kept those 3 rules !