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Digital photography tends to be very light sensitive and where there is a great range in light to dark, the darker areas tend to lose saturation. In film photograhy it is equivalent to slide film versus print film. Using print film exposure can be off by several stops and still produce a useful print. With slide film, the exposure must be more accurate. The same is true for digital.Originally Posted by Yisehaq
As to sharpness in digital, the attempt is to achieve a balance between too much sharpness which causes picture noise and grain, and too little sharpness that results in a soft image. Software can do a better job on this than the in camera processing, so it is usually left to the user to do postprocessing.
Everyone's concept of acceptable quality photos is different. It depends on whether you are talking about regular size prints of family style snapshots or artistic photos that you want to blow up.
The highest quality in technical digital photography is achieved with a very good camera, appropriate accessories for the shot, high quality fast lenses, and sophisticated postprocessing software. Photoshop CS3 by the way is not always the answer in that area.
Film has more colours, not better quality colours. The result is that a greater dynamic range and gradual blend of colours is possible without noise or artifacts.
In sharpness, film and digital are about equal, but that means using a tripod, mirror up and remote trigger or timer. This is of course rarely done by most photographers using either film or digital.
Digital tends to have about the same high contrast of colour slide film..which is often too much for some shots, since it often leads to lack of detail in shadow areas or muted "dead" colours in areas of lower light.
Tegan
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