Does Film Photography suffer the same pitfalls as Digital Photography and Visa Versa

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Photo of a Dublin Bus taken from a Pixel 3a smartphone. Unfortunately, the display does not come out?

Is this an issue with Film Cameras, or does it only blight Smartphone users and lesser spec digital cameras?

[CelticRambler]

Not sure what you're asking, and the photo's not showing in the post either! Is that what you mean by "the display does not come out" or are you referring to a display (panel) within the bus?

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Display panel on the bus

[Hairy-Joe]

I can't see the photo either

[CelticRambler]

Still tricky to know what "pitfall" you're referring to, but it sounds like it's either a problem with the settings you've used. From a purely photographic point of view, the process of capturing an image is the same - the camera opens the shutter to a certain extent, allows in a fraction of second of reflected light and closes again. Whether that light then falls on a piece of celluloid or a digital sensor is "after the fact" and (probably) not relevant in this situation.

Two possible explanations if you're not seeing text/images in your photo where they were visible in real life -
(1) the intensity of the light emitted by the display board is very weak, especially if the rest of the image includes daylight coming through windows, or even LED/fluorescent light panels in the ceiling. This would be a problem of composition and metering. Some smartphones, if using HDR, might "fix" the problem of low intensity light in some parts of the image; a film-camera expects you to do the work.
(2) the display may not be a static image, but refreshed at a rate that's too fast for your eye to notice. If it's a very bright display, and you're using a fast ISO film with automatic shutter speed, then the camera just might have captured the space between two successive images on the board (variations of this effect used to be seen a lot in older video film - e.g. waves of lines on CRT displays).

[Hairy-Joe]

One thing dawned on me. Is it related to the refresh rates of the display and the phone? If you see some videos of LED's on TV, they can look like they are flashing.

Human eyes have a refresh rate of about 17 frames per second (I think). So, anything faster than 17 frames per second looks like a movie film. However, a lot of LED displays and lights have a flicker refresh rate faster than 17 frames per second and it looks like a continuous stream to your eyes. However, the photo was probably taken in between the flickers (they your eye can't see).

Again, Im only guessing as there's no attachment.