Scanned film images can still be better than digital

We are continuing to scan 6x6cm film images from the Holt Studios files. Many of these photographs, which were taken all over the world, have never been seen or used and remain a unique record.

Much is spoken about the advantages of digital photography. Undoubtedly DSLR cameras are useful tools for making records of animals and plants and the advances in modern equipment ensures that the quality, particularly in some close ups, is excellent and hard to equal.

However, there are certain subjects where the quality of a film image exceeds one made on a DSLR camera and this is particularly true of views where there is a lot of information and a large scanned film image can retain landscape or crop detail which is lost in an interpolated digital record.

So compare carefully and see that the difference between medium and small format still exists and, until high end digital cameras become more commonplace, a good film image can still exceed the quality of even the most advanced DSLR.

Both digital originals and scanned transparencies are shown on the website.