What’s the difference in the way a film camera captures light vs a digital camera
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ultimately it’s the medium on which the light is captured. On a film camera it’s a chemical reaction on film while on a digital camera it’s a sensor where each individual pixael is exited differently by light.
They actually do nearly everything the same. In film, light knocks electrons off of silver compounds, while in digital cameras, it knocks electrons off of a semiconductor chip. Then circuitry in the chip detects the electrons, or chemicals added to the film during development make silver compounds crystallize where the electrons were dislocated.
Compounds, wavelength, commercially, frequencies, pixels, sensor module, distinction, irreversally [sic], sensitivity? Yikes
If you were actually 5, I’d say:
Film works like drawing a picture
The light touches the film, which is the camera’s ‘paper’, and draws onto it
Digital pictures work like your memory
You can think of a picture and see it in your head
The difference between a real drawing and thinking about it
Is that one touches and makes a picture , like crayons on paper
And digital is the way a camera remembers the image and shows it
Like how the TV or computer screen shows pictures
Digital isn’t drawn, instead it’s seen, remembered and shown
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