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Is it alright to call film cameras "analog cameras"? Cause I'm just used to thinking that analog cameras are early electronic cameras like the Sony Mavica and that ignorant kids who grew up with digital refer to anything else as analog. Then again, light waves are still recorded with infinite resolution but it isn't exactly a signal so maybe video and stills are different or is it more of the medium that they are on?

Any ex/p/erts here that can clear this up?
>> des
film cameras are digital, digital cameras are analogue

Grains are either on or off
Photosites are any one of foo values (depends on the sensor and ADCs)

>>Then again, light waves are still recorded with infinite resolution but it isn't exactly a signal so maybe video and stills are different or is it more of the medium that they are on?
I don't understand what you are asking if anything

Just call digital cameras "digital cameras" and film cameras "film cameras" ffs
>> anonymous
I call lump all cameras into the category of Pussy Magnets!!
>> Anonymous
Well analog and digital deal with time dependent data like sound, video, and anything that needs to "update" itself or change like temperature and states so I don't think still film cameras should be considered analog cameras because all the data is on a single slide and is interpreted at once.

The old electronic cameras however store their data on disks or some sort of storage format that is read sequentially.

At least that's what I think.
>> Anonymous
>>139441

Film cameras should be called analog(ue) because they produce an image that is an analog of the scene. That is, it's a tiny little picture of the scene itself, that doesn't take any special hardware to decode -- all you need is to reverse the process that took the image (project it through a lens).

Same goes for sound recordings. Early gramophones used the same hardware for recording and playback, just with one driving the other. The recording itself was a miniature drawing of the exact pressure variations the air was going thorough.

Digital cameras and sound recordings, on the other hand, are just a chain of numbers. You can't play them back without special encoding or decoding methods.
>> Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s
>>139669
nope.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
ITT people don't know what "Analog" and "Digital" mean.

>>139441
>film cameras are digital, digital cameras are analogue
What you mean is that film cameras are *binary*, not digital. Film cameras don't record their image data as a series of numbers. They do record discrete information about a scene using only two possible states (exposed grain vs. unexposed grain).

>>139433
I assume you're talking about those old-school, pre-Digital "still video cameras"? While it's true that they're analog (in that they record continuous, non-discrete values on the magnetic media they used), it's also true the film cameras are analog (in the more general "not digital" sense that's generally used nowadays). And given how brief a blip on the photography universe still video cameras were, it seems a waste to bother coming up with terminology to refer to them.

>>139669
Yeah, that's not what analog means in this context.

>>139449
Listen to this man.
>> Anonymous
>>139441digital cameras are analogue

????

backwards time universe?

how is a digital camera analog? it's called digital!
>> Anonymous
so are you telling me film cameras are digital and digital cameras are analogue
>> Anonymous
>>139763
in a sense, yes. learn to read?
>> Anonymous
>>139765

so why are they called digital cameras then

this should be on cnn's crossfire because it would be an outrage
>> Anonymous
>>139766
DID WE NOT JUST GO OVER THIS
>> Anonymous
it's the backwards time universe
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>139766
I see what you're doing there.
>> Anonymous
Sony Mavica cameras were so win, haha.
>> Anonymous
>>139755
>>139441
technically true (re. film grain being on or off) but you're also ignoring sympathetic development, grain acutance, and a host of other features...I'd say film grain isn't quite binary or entirely variable.


>>139666
you're stupid.


>>139715
>>139724
I personally like that definition. Even if it's not what the word means in this context, it is what the word originally meant, and is also true.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>140135
>but you're also ignoring sympathetic development, grain acutance, and a host of other features
Please go on
>> Anonymous
Film cameras can be called analog cameras and there's nothing wrong with it. It's just that there are other cameras that really should be called analog cameras. The kind that stores data on magnetic tape like analogue video and still video cameras.