Why hire us for your project?

Besides the obvious reason, experience, we believe in giving a lot for less.   Our studio utilize only digital equipment for video and photography.    Film photography such as medium format or 35mm available upon request at a different rate. 

Modern technology gives us the ability to provide high quality product with less time and money.   ADA Video takes advantage of this to full potential.

Figure above:   We have all the format above available upon request.   We prefer to shoot in digital.  The larger the film, the better the picture quality when you enlarge the photo such as larger than 30x40 inches.   If you're not intended to print anything larger than 30x40, our digital equipment can do the job just fine.   Call us to make an appointment and see our work and judge for yourself.

Film versus Digital

  DIGITAL FILM
Instant gratification, proof available immediately yes no
You pay nothing to send files to friend and family yes no
File available for download, manipulation, email, printing....all can be done by yourself without paying the lab yes no
File archive on CD-ROM or DVD-ROM yes no
All your memories can be transfer to whatever the modern archive media yes no
You pay less because of lower overhead cost yes no
Photograph can last as long as your want, if original destroyed, you can reprint from the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM which we gave to you yes no

 

Myth About Digital Photography

Photo doesn't last as long as film photography.   This is not true.   If you use photograph paper, the life of photograph is the same for both film and digital.   Digital has the advantage of reprinting if the original got destroyed or lost.   Because we give you a copy of the original files, you can reprint them anytime you want.   Digital is easy to duplicate....where film is a lot harder to duplicate.   Imagine if you house is on fire or flood, your photo album will be gone forever!!!  Or may be your kid spilled drinks on it, your photo album will be gone!!   Even if none of the natural disaster occurs, your photograph tend to change color over time.   This is normal for chemical reaction with all man-made product including your photographs.  

Now, think digital.   100 years into the future.   We know that something better will come along.   It is easy for your descendant to copy from CD-ROM or DVD-ROM to whatever that new technology is.    Your photographs in digital files will be archived indefinitely.   Most likely, you will have a copy and the in-law has a copy and we have a copy.   What is the chance that all three of us lost all the original files?   Unless there's a nuclear holocaust and if that's the case, may be we got something else better to worry about.   :-)

In term of digital photography has problem with memory storage, this can be true with film photography where film gets stuck or camera failure.   In both cases, either film or digital, they are not perfect.   They have their own glitches.   It is up to the operator (photographer) to anticipate this type of issue and create a backup system.

 

 

updated:  Wednesday, 28 May 2003