Analogic photography: it uses film cameras, chemical development, chemical-optical print.
Digital photography: it uses digital cameras and digital print.
Analogic-digital photography: it uses film cameras, chemical development, scan, digital print.
The combined use of film and computer in analogic-digital technique can show some advantages.
1) Photography with films brings imponderability, which is transformed then in expectation of development, which is transformed in bigger reflection at shot's moment - all this is translated in results of greater human value.
Pure digital increases speed; however, when you look for the best quality time goes into the background.
2) Resolution obtainable from a film scan is generally superior to that one which we can obtain with ordinary digital photo cameras. This gives possibility to have higher enlargements with a small or absent interpolation, where in comparison with strictly digital images there is an improvement in naturalness of colour gradations.
Film is like a block-notes, from which the best images - whatever they may be - can be enlarged to maximum levels with appropriate scans.
3) Film stores the maximum of image's informations as it is possible, at least till it doesn't change colour (this generally can happen only after several tens years). This means to have images in a physical "strongbox".
Digital technology is more volatile. Data can be lost in a trifle.
Digital photographic cameras offer great advantages when one searches for practicality and speed in images production.
However it's certain that, for those who see photography as an art, speed doesn't matter.
For this reason the gallery uses and suggests film technique, managed by scans.
