Alien Skin Software's Exposure 6 now available

You're saying that film captures something digital doesn't because it distorts things more and that distortion is how we see.

That's not true.

There's nothing 'natural' about the distortions of film. You're just used to them. Just as the 'sound' of vinyl is just compression and distortion some people like.

It's fine to love the look of film. It just means you're old or nostalgic. It's rubbish to suggest it's a true representation of reality because it's distorted.

None of the benefits of film, like high dynamic range with soft clipping, can be added by a filter. These filters only add the stuff film shooters spent careers trying to avoid.

…feeling a scene is not standard colour only, it is a blend of light forms (color) and feelings towards what we are looking at. Those feelings are manifested in color distortions that accentuate drama.

During film-only days, creative results was obtained for example by using high iso film for its granular characteristic to emphasize feelings by distorting the standard. Professionals also used graduated nd's and colour filers, soft focus filters, nuance, colour boosting, to capture the feeling they experience in relation to th subject whether in landscape, portrait or other, not just its standard colour. Many went farther by doing cross-processing e-6 in c-41 and vice versa, sepia type and tons of other colour distortions in the darkroom.

Modern or traditional filtering, it is the distortion of standard colours to express not only the ordinary of things that some get confined with, but also th feeling. in hope to help you b more creative..

I'm all for filtering and editing. I just don't see why flaws need to be rehabilitated as assets. Grain isn't desirable, it was just unavoidable. Nostalgia for something doesn't make it art, it's just old.