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Why is high speed (ISO) film more expensive than low speed film?
And why is film much more expensive than paper?
Is it the silver content? Production volume? Does is it take more effort to produce larger grain?
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Wet photography: what's the second choice after silver halide?
All the film photography I know of - both colour and black-and-white - uses silver halide as the photosensitive component. I suppose that after over a hundred years of wet photography we have a good ...
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How to preserve detail when downscaling scanned photos?
I'm mixing analog with digital photography — I tend to take better photos when I can't look at a small digital screen, unconsciously forcing me to take the picture before I shoot instead of checking ...
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What's the most likely cause of grain in this photo?
I took this photo recently w/ an old Pentax K1000, using 400 ISO film, and an f/1.7 aperture. Is this graininess just inherent to shooting w/ this sort of film / lighting? Or, is it partially/largely ...
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What is the difference between digital high ISO noise and film grain?
What is the difference between digital high ISO noise and film grain? Why does one "eat detail" and the other does not?
