What’s the difference in the way a film camera captures light vs a digital camera

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What’s the difference in the way a film camera captures light vs a digital camera

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Anonymous 0 Comments

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

Anonymous 0 Comments

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.

Anonymous 0 Comments

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.