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ISO 100 film used in dusk

ISO 100 film used in available light


Daylight-balanced color film will give you renditions of daylight temperature (white light) and Speedlite's illumination when it is used in such conditions. When the color temperature gets warmer, like during early morning sunrise or evening sunset and indoors lit by either tungsten-type or mixed lighting, daylight-balanced films will exhibit the tendency of these warm or artificial colorcasts.

All of Canon's EF lenses are designed with the 35mm format in mind, which means if you mount a Super-wide 14mm, 17mm or 20mm lens on your EOS camera, you get the intended angle-of-view recorded on film. There will be no multiplying factor whatsoever with the final image with these EF lenses.

 
Super wide 14mm used on analog EOS model

17mm angle like this can be recorded on film



Glamour and still life photography? Well, these categories have been rendered on films for decades, and film manufacturers have even designed special purpose emulsions for recording such images. There are films specifically-designed for portrait and wedding photography that will render the mood and color well. And glamour photography (outdoor, indoors, daytime or night) with bright colors can be recorded by either slow or medium speed daylight-balanced films while still-life will benefit from medium speed emulsions, regardless of whatever type of lighting is being used.

Beauty finalists in a row

Fill-in flash at a cultural performance

   
A simple half-length indoor portrait
A mannequin on display


Having said that, one can argue that digital cameras are now able to render any of the above subjects with ease, and some models even have automatic white balance modes built-in, where you don't need to reset the camera each time it is being used in artificial lighting conditions.

This is true but as I have mentioned in the previous page, this is not about film vs. digital topic, but rather on why film is still popular and here to stay. There might be fewer analog cameras to be introduced in the future as digital cameras get more popular but there will always be ample supply of films, the respective processing chemicals and the photographic papers they will be printed on, as there are still millions of existing users of film-based models around the world.

This market segment is too large one for any film manufacturer to ignore totally even if digital photography may be getting more popular.

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