Challenge: Can You Tell the Difference Between Real Film and a Preset?

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The Phoblographer says, "We’re pretty sure you can’t tell the difference between a film preset and a film scan." I'm pretty sure I can't, my main experience of film being from a Kodak Brownie many years ago. They show a lot of examples and ask you to guess which is which. How many can you get right?

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Challenge: Can You Tell the Difference Between Real Film and a Preset?

How smart are you? Can you figure out if these images are film scans or presets? Which ones are which? See if you can get it right.
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The main way I tell film from digital is that one involves a trip to town and a weeks wait for a small print with someone elses fingerprint and hair on it.
 
At the size shown there, not a hope. Give me an A3/12x16 print, and I'd give it a try.

That said, my experience with colour film is such that I think I could pick out a Kodachrome slide from others, but colour print films all look the same to me - there's more variation in processing than the films to my eyes. And I know that that isn't the accepted position over in F&C.

The same applies to a lesser extent with black and white. I feel that the printing has more effect than the film, until grain becomes visible. It takes a reasonable size print for me to see the differences. I've never managed a black and white from digital that comes close to my scanned film/inkjet output prints.

I'm sure I'd fail this test.
 
What purpose is that then?
 
I'm not disabling adblock to have a go, but I bet I could tell
 
Of course I can tell the difference between film and a preset, everyone can.

I can touch film and put it in the camera. But you can't touch a preset.

And finally: Only dummies use presets. :exit:
 
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