A friendly observation regarding digital & film M bodies

[Archiver]

All true, but would you shoot 10 rolls of film a day? And when do you have time to look at 7350 pics? After a two or three week trip I find even a few hundred pictures time consuming to process and select.

You're right, I most likely wouldn't shoot 10 rolls of film a day. More like two if I pushed myself.

As for the digital work, when I got home I just ran the dng files through Lightroom and 7350 (mostly) autocorrected jpegs popped out. I then had the option of going through them at my leisure to select the ones I wanted to process individually.

While I might not 'need' hundreds of photos every day, I like having that option. Actually, I took about 650 images each day as I was also using a Ricoh GRD III. I really like having that almost minute by minute documentation, as does my friend with whom I traveled. And even though I was almost constantly taking photos, I was amply enjoying the trip as well.

 

[bobby_novatron]

Archiver -- I read your posts with interest and fully support your use of your M9 during your travels. I know how intense traveling can be, and how there is a desire to shoot lots of frames in the event of getting some 'keepers'. I did the same when I went to S. E. Asia for a 3 month visit in 2009 ... I think I ended up taking close to 12,000 frames.

And did I take my Leica M6? Nope. I took a Canon dSLR. Why? For the very same reasons you took your M9.

But in normal day-to-day, week-to-week shooting (I'm a hobbyist and shoot for pure pleasure) I only go through a few rolls a month. Some C-41, some B&W that I develop myself. I shoot film because I love the look of it, I love the personality of each film + developer. It's my indulgence, my passion away from the 'tyranny of the mundane' that otherwise permeates our everyday lives.

And heck -- takin' pictures is just plain fun!