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Originally Posted by CK1
if you are going to take nude pictures, i would recommend using digital. although i personally still love using 35mm film, digital gives you some advantages.
1- it is cheap. i mean. you can take one picture or a hundred and it doesn't cost you any more... unless you print out every picture you take. with 35mm you have to develop the pictures to see what you got and what you will keep and what you will toss.
2- You don't have to worry about getting it developed and "copies" ending up in the wrong hands.
3- you can edit, correct, etc before printing out. if you use 35mm and you want to edit you would have to scan the pictures and then edit them. more time, and more equipment is needed.
4- you are only limited by the size and number of memory cards you carry. film takes a lot of space to carry around and can be damaged over time and conditions it is kept in.
5- Digital can be more forgiving when it comes to image corrections. in my experience, if an image is too dark but digital, you can salvage it more times than if it is a 35mm. at least digitally. there are plenty of things you can do in a dark room but most people can't afford the equipment and chemical needed for that.
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It is possible to convert your older 35mm film & slides to digital. Nikon makes a unit that plugs into your PC that you can scan your negatives through and create digital copies at up to 4000dpi (other companies, Canon, Pacific Image) make scanners with varying degrees of resolution. Then again, if you have a nice photo lab/supplier in your neighborhood, you might even find them with an even better scanner. I converted most of my images from film to digital that way with the end result as images of 1000x1500 ranging in size from around 300-400kb in size. Its good for up to 11"x14" or 12"x18" with acceptable grain, a generous amount of which can be edited out. But, having said that, converting to digital with something along the lines of a Canon 10 or 12mp body (since I have some decent lenses & filters already) is something I'm looking to do, eventually. Oh, one good thing about the 35mm-digital conversion is that you then have 2 copies of the image, an original imprinted by the sun's own rays on celluloid, and a digital image burned into an aluminum wafer that can be played with.