Comment on "why film"

[Vics]

I very much like the sentiment expressed at the top of this thread. I'm glad to know that there are others who love the photographic "process." I do too, and like you, I don't think it has anything to do with digital imaging or the pros or cons. I just like working with film and a camera and one lens. No meter, no batteries, just the camera, the film and the subject, or my idea of the subject. Well you said it better than I ever could.
Thanks,
Vic

 

[thomasw_]

Absolutely. I just find it interesting that people will spend after work time at computers talking about how they don't want to spend after work time at computers.

off-topic...sorry OP.

Hehe, yes it is a paradox. But like any paradox the apparent contradiction dissolves upon a clear explanation. This case in point: the relaxed browsing of the Net and reading/writing about something we take delight in doing is quite different from the type of work most of us have to use our computers for at work. It is not about the means, rather the use of the means.

Analogously we can look at reading. I read a lot at home and at work; the type of reading I do at work is definitely not the type of reading I do at home: but they both involve decoding words or 'reading'. As I get sick of all the reading I do at work, it seems paradoxical that I would go home to read still more! Again it is not about the means; it is about the use of the means.

end off-topic....

Reasons to use Film...look of results, handling, the way it makes me think; the type of cameras/lenses I can use with film....

 

[imajypsee]

I use both film and digital at the moment

I use both film and digital at the moment

and I use each for different reasons. In fact, I gave all my film equipment away about three years ago only to realize that I like the look of film and now I own a whole lot of old analog cameras... for the FUN of it and the FUNK of film. The thing about film now is that I need to order the stuff that I can't buy locally. I'm traveling this summer and trying to store a stock of film and cameras loaded with film in the HOT sun in a HOT van (when it's parked out of the shade) is a major PIA. When I was getting ready for this trip I thought seriously about not bringing any film equipment... but, I did. (I use cheap foam coolers to store my cameras and film in the van.) And, since I'm scanning my own negatives I have to haul a scanner. Not so convenient, but times have changed.
I use my digital SLRs and digicams for convenience, but I often find I want a different look and that takes PSing it.
Thankfully, I have the opportunity to choose; and film is "hot" with young people and being used as advertising props (commodified).
See here:
http://www.pbase.com/image/101385095
http://www.pbase.com/jypsee/image/101385049
http://www.pbase.com/jypsee/image/101385046
http://www.pbase.com/jypsee/image/96185198

Mary in the UP of MI til hurricane season is over in FL