Both images start out as an analog image … one strikes film and the film is later developed. The other strikes a sensor and the data from it is sent to an analog to digital converter (second only to the lens in providing superior images) which then is processed in to an image file (JPEG, TIFF or RAW depending upon how sophisticated the camera) and saved to memory.

Basically everything in front of the film or sensor is identical (lens, aperture, viewing and focusing system, metering, flash and other controls). It is after the light strikes the film or sensor that all is so much different. Developing and printing the film is a chemical/mechanical process. Processing RAW files is a software dependent operation although both film and digital image files can be printed at photo labs on proper photographic paper.
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Film:
~can work with more interesting cameras such as holgas, Dianas, ( see: http://www.lomography.com/)
~gives you the chance to work in a darkroom and understand the photographic process
~there are many different types of film which can't always be emulated by computers and/or digital camera settings.

hope this helps.

someone once told me:
"If photographers had discovered color first, artists would have created black and white, and if they had started with digital, artists would have used film."

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One is analog and one is digital….

Bob – Tucson
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That's something can't get with digital.
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To make some definitive differences, you need to examine the kind and size of film, type and quality of camera. The obvious difference is digital uses a ccd or cmos chip to record light, while film uses silver halides and color couplers. Most ccd/cmos chips are smaller than the corresponding film negatives and, hence don't allow as much information to be recorded. This is often compensated by highly evolved algorythms and electronic interpolation of light entering the camera prior to exposure. So the general differences are greater in digital as the camera (usually directly related to price) will determine the quality of the recorded image; where in film, the quality of the film is generally universal and not so dependent upon the camera.
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I shoot digital because I'm lazy. I can take lots of pictures for virtually no cost except time.
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