wwkw
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What's lacking in a color film or slide that you'll favor the results of a digital camera, but still prefer black and and white film over a digital conversion?
Ko.Fe.
Lenses 35/21 Gears 46/20
WB and RGB are handy.
Darkroom prints.
Darkroom prints.
Spanik
Well-known
Who said I prefer digital for colour? There is nothing of a well exposed and projected slide that digital can touch. Certainly not of a MF slide. B&W is an aquired taste, just like vegemite.
nightfly
Well-known
I don't develop my own color film so digital gives me more control and saves me the time and cost of sending out.
Since I started using the M9 I get color that I actually like as much as or more than what I used to get with film without resorting to filters, extensive post processing etc.
I still prefer black and white film as I develop it myself and have gotten to the point that my process yields better results than I've been able to get digitally. However this probably points more to the years of shooting and developing film than to an inherent limitations of the digitial medium (though I suspect this is a factor as well).
Since I started using the M9 I get color that I actually like as much as or more than what I used to get with film without resorting to filters, extensive post processing etc.
I still prefer black and white film as I develop it myself and have gotten to the point that my process yields better results than I've been able to get digitally. However this probably points more to the years of shooting and developing film than to an inherent limitations of the digitial medium (though I suspect this is a factor as well).
wwkw
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Did anyone?
wwkw
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I don't develop my color film either. Do botched RAW files in Adobe CR or LR get you father than the same slide or negative stop for stop when trying to recover whatever it is you messed up during exposure?
icebear
Veteran
I prefer digital for black and white but I don't convert 
Noll
Well-known
For me its a lack of instant review when shooting technically challenging subjects like macro. Also where speed and high frame counts matter. For most other color shooting, I prefer the film look and wouldn't attempt these subjects with bw film.
edge100
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I shot with many digital cameras, and nothing has come close to the look of Provia 100F, which is absolutely perfect for the photographs I make. The Leica M-E was close, but not quite.
Why would I shoot digital when Provia already gives me everything I need/want?
Why would I shoot digital when Provia already gives me everything I need/want?
wwkw
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I prefer digital for black and white but I don't convert
I hear some wine tastes great straight out of the box, too... .. . I'm not trying to squash the merits of anything, though.
wwkw
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Aside from few rolls of 135 as a kid, I started off shooting digitally, went all black & white, and am now at point where I'm wondering if the preference I've made myself sure is exactly how I want, has more to do with me being able to compose and read a meter. Then I'll look at any image I've ever shot with digitally, even today, and they don't seem to come close to what I know is a good photograph. It makes me wonder if there's a crutch I don't even know that I'm hobbling on.