appeal of film over digital?

[PetPhoto]

i cant afford color film photography. I have a few rolls in the freezer but wont be using them anytime soon. I can afford 15-20$ per roll processing, and the risk of shipping in hot weather, or stuff getting lost. And not all labs doing film give a shit.

I had a batch of black and white film go out, about 30 rolls of various brands and speeds, the film lab developed ALL of it as 400 iso. Ruined some beautiful kentmere 100 shots of deer fighting. that made me develop my own film.

 

[Godfrey]

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People put more emotional impact into film ...

If you consider using a digital camera as meaningless, thoughtless, and put no thought into what you're doing with a digital camera, you will get garbage photographs with it. Which is exactly the same thing that happens when you do the same thing with a film camera.

People who start using film today usually do so from the standpoint of wanting to get more from doing photography and so they put a lot of thought, care, and effort into what they shoot and how they treat their film cameras, and then treat their digital cameras like junk. So of course they get thoughtful, emotion-filled photographs with their film cameras, and they get trash with their digital cameras.

The machines don't think, don't care: they just do what you tell them. And whether the recording material is photosensitive emulsion on plastic or an intricate little machine that records photons is completely irrelevant ... either will do exactly what you tell it to do to the limits of its design and nature. It's up to you as a photographer to learn what each of your little light-capturing-machines can do, and then how to tell the machine what to do, in order to get what you intend.

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[PetPhoto]

If you consider using a digital camera as meaningless, thoughtless, and put no thought into what you're doing with a digital camera, you will get garbage photographs with it. Which is exactly the same thing that happens when you do the same thing with a film camera.

People who start using film today usually do so from the standpoint of wanting to get more from doing photography and so they put a lot of thought, care, and effort into what they shoot and how they treat their film cameras, and then treat their digital cameras like junk. So of course they get thoughtful, emotion-filled photographs with their film cameras, and they get trash with their digital cameras.

The machines don't think, don't care: they just do what you tell them. And whether the recording material is photosensitive emulsion on plastic or an intricate little machine that records photons is completely irrelevant ... either will do exactly what you tell it to do to the limits of its design and nature. It's up to you as a photographer to learn what each of your little light-capturing-machines can do, and then how to tell the machine what to do, in order to get what you intend.

G

the first two paragraphs you typed out are merely proving the point I made about how people view film photography as some zen like perfectionist dogma, and digital as some random 10 year old taking pictures of any and old random crap in the drive way. a spray and pray of digital versus the modern bias of "holy saint ansel" carefully creating film shots