Digital or Film?

[Robert]

I love taking photos. I hate the workflow that can go along with it, especially with digital.

I would rather browse the internet, wash my car, do anything than sit and sort out my photographs on the computer.

Family and friends joke about never seeing my photos.

With prints and a rangefinder camera I have photos to show around and give any duplicates away but please don't ask for enlargements, I'm usually too busy to sort the negatives to scan.

I would take a notion and print several photos on my R800 printer then do nothing for days.

Am I unique in this or are there many members with the same lethargic approach as me.:bang: :bang:

 

[Nachkebia]

Film but without digital, straight enlarging, you can smell magic! you can always scan small files just for internet.... as for making copy`s, look at it as a painting 😀

 

[c.poulton]

Nope, that's me all over! 😉

 

[Robert]

I haven't printed traditionally for years. Now days I don't think I would have the patience.
A couple of years ago I bought several things from Ebay to get my darkroom running again but I just stuck to the digital printing.

 

[Nachkebia]

I don`t think digital printing for film is fair, you are better of with digital files 🙂

 

[Magus]

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[Nachkebia]

Magus unfortunatly I am not at this stage yet, I am waiting to move to new apartment to setup enlarging factory (can`t wait for my first print) I have never seen how printing happens (only in movies) 😀

 

[Magus]

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[Kin Lau]

Lethargic.... yes. I've got rolls of film from 2005 that I just recently developed and there are still cameras with film in it over a year old.

Once I have them dev'd, I usually scan them within a couple of days.

I usually cull my digi shots in-camera.

 

[Nachkebia]

hehe I remember I could not sleep alone after watching that movie! I also remember guy with Nikon 😀

 

[Pherdinand]

Yeah..Not even the scanning, but the work after... Dust-spotting, levels adjustments... can take a painfully lot of time.
But the results are great and probably well worth it 🙂

 

[Socke]

I love taking photos. I hate the workflow that can go along with it, especially with digital.

I would rather browse the internet, wash my car, do anything than sit and sort out my photographs on the computer.

All those things I can't do while I develope my films.

Family and friends joke about never seeing my photos.

With prints and a rangefinder camera I have photos to show around and give any duplicates away but please don't ask for enlargements, I'm usually too busy to sort the negatives to scan.

Nothing beats prints, a sofa and a girl to whom you show your prints while sitting on said sofa 🙂

OTOH my sofa is too small for friends and family, I have to be very selective there.

I would take a notion and print several photos on my R800 printer then do nothing for days.

Am I unique in this or are there many members with the same lethargic approach as me.:bang: :bang:

Get somebody else to do your digital printing as you obviously do with your analoge printing.
Why work more on a digital image than on an analoge one?

 

[traveller]

I'm a lucky guy because I solved this problem with a traditional darkroom 😀

 

[Socke]

1. Bulk load film
2. Shoot film
3. Develop film in store-bought chemicals (in kitchen)
4. Scan film with a Nikon scanner at 25% size, auto levels
5. Put film in clear sleeves, in archival folders and store in archival box
6. After reviewing all scans, I pick my favorites and rescan them at 100% and set the levels myself
7. Have digital C prints made of best files
8. Receive prints in mail
9. Complain about how much better a wet print would look
10. Repeat process

Sounds familiar, although I skip step one. But I can add buying supercheap Fuji C200 film in a supermarket and then complaining about the weird colors and lack of resolution.

 

[Pherdinand]

Does not necessarily mean it is a fault, in those movies.
Movies cut a lot of time-consumign details out of human activities, to fit within a reasonable time., Some fail in this even with the cutting.
E.g. hwo many times have you seen somebody going to the toilet and sitting there five+ minutes, unless there's something important ahppening in that toilet? But still nobody comments that film directors don't know how to poo.
Or, when fueling a car. They never seem to have to remove the cap of the fuel tank.
Etcetera.

 

[Pherdinand]

"4. Scan film with a Nikon scanner at 25% size, auto levels"
Ara, what does that mean? 25% of the 24x36mm is rather small...