In some ways they are the same and in other ways they are worlds apart. Shooting slides like mawz says is probable the best way to say it. It also make a deferents in what* kind of camera you use witch is unlike film, in that you could take great film pics with a crappy camera. This is because each digital camera maker tweaks the camera to produce the best jpg pic that they think you will like. Now when you move on to a camera that shoots raw it changes to being kind of be-teen slides and color negatives. I think that if you learned* on b&w film in many ways this is the biggest adjustment, if you learned on slide or color negative film it's not such a big change.
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Originally Posted by Gaelan
Greetings from your friendly neighborhood druid 
I have yet to find a computer program which will give me the results I could get from trays of smelly chemicals. It's the old fogy in me.
There is true magick in the darkroom. Processing film, making prints, all the hands on tricks I have learned in my many years of hobby and photojournalism. Progress, (?), and expense forced me to go digital.
To truly enjoy photography I would have to return to those thrilling days of yesteryear; when I could eyeball an exposure in next to nothing light, push ASA 400 film to 6400, capture images that would be impossible to mere mortals, and make double exposures, sandwich negatives, solarize film and prints, do do that voo doo that I do so well. |
For me it much the same as it is with Gaelan when it come to the wet side of pics. I would not think of my self as a newbee with Nikon capture or PS, but it is not as easy or as fast to learning as how to make a print. Like Gaelan i was a master in the dark room and frankly was better at it then i was at shooting. I was quit good after only a few times, where as* shooting it took a few years to really learn to get ok at it! This is where digicams shine IMO the more you shoot the better you get if you work at it. With film you had to take notes to know what f-stop-ext you had used. Now if one wonder what they shot at or why some thing did not go right they can look at the Exif info. Added to that you are liberated from the cost of film, paper, labs, and cems. Digital does have a bigger cost going in, but if you look at it from films cost it pays for it's self very fast. i figured that my d-70 kit paid for it self off after 4 months if looked at it from the cost of film.
Steve