Film vs. Digital — What's the Difference?

A film, also called a movie, motion picture or moving picture, is a work of visual art used to simulate experiences that communicate ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound, and more rarely, other sensory stimulations.

Relating to or resembling a digit, especially a finger.

A thin skin or membrane.

Operated or done with the fingers

A thin, opaque, abnormal coating on the cornea of the eye.

Having digits.

A thin covering or coating

Expressed in discrete numerical form, especially for use by a computer or other electronic device

A thin, flexible, transparent sheet, as of plastic, used in wrapping or packaging.

Relating to or being a device that can generate, record, process, receive, transmit, or display information that is represented in discrete numerical form.

A thin sheet or strip of flexible material, such as a cellulose derivative or a thermoplastic resin, coated with a photosensitive emulsion and used to make photographic negatives or transparencies.

Relating to or being a service that provides information expressed in discrete numerical form

A thin sheet or strip of developed photographic negatives or transparencies.

Relating to or being a profession or activity that is performed using digital devices

A movie, especially one recorded on film.

Using or giving a reading in digits

The presentation of such a work.

Characterized by widespread use of computers

A long, narrative movie.

A key played with the finger, as on a piano.

Movies collectively, especially when considered as an art form.

Having to do with digits (fingers or toes); performed with a finger.

To cover with or as if with a film.

Property of representing values as discrete, often binary, numbers rather than a continuous spectrum.

To record on film or video using a movie camera

Of or relating to computers or the Information Age.

To become coated or obscured with or as if with a film

(finance) A digital option.

To make or shoot scenes for a movie.

(uncountable) Digital equipment or technology.

A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.

(music) Any of the keys of a piano or similar instrument.

(photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.

A finger.

A movie.

Of or pertaining to the fingers; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.

Cinema; movies as a group.

Of or pertaining to digits{3}; expressed in digits{3}, or using digits{3}; as, a digital display; a digital clock.

A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.

Performing internal logical and arithmetic operations by means of digits, usually represented as binary numbers. Contrasted to analog, wherein variables are represented as coninuous physical quantities such as voltages or the position of a pointer on a continuous scale; as, a digital computer.

(ambitransitive) To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.

Of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits;

(ambitransitive) To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.

Displaying numbers rather than scale positions;

(transitive) To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.

Relating to or performed with the fingers;

A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.

Hence, any thin layer covering a surface.

A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.

The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion, containing the sensitive salts of photographic plates.

A flexible sheet of celluloid or other plastic material to which a light-sensitive layer has been applied, used for recording images by the processes of photography. It is commonly used in rolls mounted within light-proof canisters suitable for simple insertion into cameras designed for such canisters. On such rolls, varying numbers of photographs may be taken before the canister needs to be replaced.

A motion picture.

The art of making motion pictures; - used mostly in the phrase the film.

A thin transparent sheet of plastic, used for wrapping objects; as, polyethylene film.

To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.

To make a motion picture of (any event or literary work); to record with a movie camera; as, to film the inauguration ceremony; to film Dostoevsky's War and Peace.

A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement;

A medium that disseminates moving pictures;

A thin coating or layer;

A thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things

Photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies

Make a film or photograph of something;

Record in film;