What’s the difference between shooting on film or digitally?

Scott k: What’s the difference between shooting a film digitally or on film?
If u shoot on film, could u upload that to your computer onto final cut?

Answers and Views:

Answer by Hermano
Not Directly, of course. Film is film which has to be developed and you could have the photo finisher give you a digital copy.

Answer by snowwillow20
No film has to be developed. Film is not digital. You don’t film to digital, you record to digital.

Answer by Scott
There are four forms of media used to record a video image.

Digital memory (Hard drives, DVDs, memory cards, internal flash memory)

Digital “film” cassette tapes (MiniDv, Digital 8, etc)

Analog magnetic cassette tapes (VHS and VHS-C, Beta, etc)

And photo-reactive films, still are commonly used. (Sized from IMax to split-8mm).

All except photo-reactive films can be fairly easily uploaded, though analog-digital converters are needed for some formats.

Photo-reactive film must be properly loaded, exposed with a camera, unloaded, chemically developed and fixed. It can then be projected and recorded, or scanned, to obtain a digital copy.