Where do we stand on film/digital?

Where do we stand on film/digital?

  • For prof. work, I use mainly digital

    Votes: 78 22.3%

  • For prof. work, I use mainly film

    Votes: 20 5.7%

  • For prof. work, I use about 50/50

    Votes: 15 4.3%

  • For personal hobby, I use mainly digital

    Votes: 59 16.9%

  • For personal hobby, I use mainly film

    Votes: 183 52.4%

  • For personal hobby, I use about 50/50

    Votes: 95 27.2%
  • Total voters
    349
  • Poll closed .
I guess the last film for commercial work was three years ago and then about three years before that. All my commercial work is digital and can't imagine shooting film again. certainly no film given the quality of MF digital now.

I am still 100% film in my xray art and will remain film.

Personal work became 90% digital early last year. I'm doing more color rather than black and white now and E6 color just isn't practical. Everything has to go to Atlanta and cost can go out of sight particularly if you shoot LF. Also I just needed a change from B&W.
 
5 °F. Digital P&S here and there but usually I just shoot b&w film. I'd say 99% but that concept is luckily foreign from my point of view.
 
Film only for me. Honestly, shooting film is the main reason I am getting professional assignments.

P.S.

My only digital camera is Leica X1 - my wife is photographing my kiddo with it, I shot may be 60 photos with it.
 
shoot 100% of the time as hobby

started with d40 (4 years ago)
then a week later, i got an olympus xa
fast forward 2 years, i sold d40 and got a d90
continued using the xa
decided to get an m6
most recently (2 days ago) bought an m8


i simply cannot afford to keep both the m6 and m8. the d90 never gets used. simply answer is to keep the m8, and sell the m6, but the m6 feels so good in my hands!

forgot to answer the question. i shoot film whenever i can. when i don't have film, i shoot digital. with the current dilemma, looks like i'm gonna have the m8 with the olympus xa, which seems like a good combo to have i guess.
 
Rangeman133 said:
shoot 100% of the time as hobby

started with d40 (4 years ago)
then a week later, i got an olympus xa
fast forward 2 years, i sold d40 and got a d90
continued using the xa
decided to get an m6
most recently (2 days ago) bought an m8


i simply cannot afford to keep both the m6 and m8. the d90 never gets used. simply answer is to keep the m8, and sell the m6, but the m6 feels so good in my hands!

forgot to answer the question. i shoot film whenever i can. when i don't have film, i shoot digital. with the current dilemma, looks like i'm gonna have the m8 with the olympus xa, which seems like a good combo to have i guess.
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what are you doing with your nikon gear?
 
Shooting 100% digital for work -- that's the way the business has gone, and that's what commercial clients expect. They want it uploaded the next day (or the same day!), and if the client is on location with you, they want to see it on your laptop immediately for review. I've done shoots in which the client is in another city (or country!), and they want me to email/upload the shot as I'm on location so that they can review it and critique it right away. Film just wouldn't work in those situations. As well, no more waiting two minutes for a Polaroid to see if the lighting etc is right, then making further adjustments, pulling another Polaroid and waiting another two minutes. Unfortunately, the way things have gone, commercial clients want things quicker, and in business if you don't adapt, you'll be left behind. I don't know of a commercial client that would hire me because I shoot film -- just wouldn't work nowadays for me or them. Interesting that not too long ago, film was the only choice!

For personal work, however, I go back and forth between digital and film -- using the M9 for the digital stuff, and a variety of vintage cameras for film. This week, the film camera is a Pentacon Pentina -- one of the few in the world that actually works!
 
I voted: For personal hobby, I use mainly film. I guess I called it a hobby fifty years ago but I was a professional for several years a long time ago and since then I have sold my prints in a couple of galleries but I am not doing that now. I still just think of it as mainly as what I do nearly every day. I don't really do anything else that I could put a label on. If someone asks me what I do I still say that I am a photographer. If I were a working professional again I am sure I would shoot mostly digital. Jim
 
From here on out digital only gets cheaper and easier and better, and film only gets more expensive and harder.

Digital isn't going anywhere. It will be there when you want it.

But if you value any of the unique properties of film, the time to shoot it is now.
 
As an amateur, it's always (= 14 years) been B&W film for me. I never thought there was anything wrong with film. The quality is there and I enjoy the whole darkroom process, so I continue to use it.

I do use a small Panasonic digital camera to photograph the negatives and prints coming out of the fixer tray for my film photography blog...ironic 🙄
 
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I am shooting 100% film, but I will use a digital camera if I can ever find one I can tolerate. At least for color.

Currently in Philly it is 40° F, and sort of crappy, expected to get crappier by end of day.

Greg, it's 'option-shift-8' on a Mac. ;-)

Randy
 
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