ricnak
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Keith's 7 day challenge has got me back into it.
digital users...what would entice you back to film?
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coelacanth
Ride, dive, shoot.
+1.
When I post on "what are you carrying right now" thread, I have both film and digital cams most of time.
-doomed-
film is exciting
I'd go back to film when I no longer have to shoot digital for work.
Bill Clark
Veteran
These are qualities I like about digital:
Capture stage equipment has improved tremendously.
Process stage can be very creative. Computers/Software/Internet have allowed this to take place.
Photographs can be viewed on various platforms.
These three processes can be used to help an image as well as over do it. I see many photographs today that are overdone.
Capture stage equipment has improved tremendously.
Process stage can be very creative. Computers/Software/Internet have allowed this to take place.
Photographs can be viewed on various platforms.
These three processes can be used to help an image as well as over do it. I see many photographs today that are overdone.
I'm in a slightly different spot to what the OP's question asks - I ask myself these days, what needs to happen in order to continue using my digicam? (The place of film in my world is safe as houses, at least for as long as there is film available). One thing that I think will help me continue to use my digital camera (D90) is that I've finally figured out how to switch the bleeding LCD off. 😀 So, no more chimping! Getting a D800 would be another thing that would keep me in the digital world (though it's a bit too dear for me now). However, film will always have more love from me, if not for any other reason, then for the smell of those chemicals! Also, I actually don't mind scanning, it does take a lot of time, but then again I don't watch any TV, so finding time is not that much of the problem (at least on weekends). Now I also dream of getting a Zeiss Ikon ZI (in addition to my Nikon FE2), and when I manage to do that, my use of film will certainly go up.
So, I'm trying to get the best of both worlds here, and in addition to keep a very tight leash on the use of Photoshop (and other processing software), as I do agree there's heaps of overdone stuff out there.
So, I'm trying to get the best of both worlds here, and in addition to keep a very tight leash on the use of Photoshop (and other processing software), as I do agree there's heaps of overdone stuff out there.
Jamie Pillers
Skeptic
Nothing really.
Nothing really.
Not 35mm anymore. Digital offers too many benefits and the downsides, if any, are too minor to be bothered with. Being able to shift ISO at any moment, B&W or color, no expensive and time-consuming trips to the lab (or darkroom), and (maybe most important for me) instant feedback on errors of judgement.
Medium format may still hold a bit of sway with me, but not for any real practical reason. Just one last emotional connection to film, so it might as well be a big negative that I get out of it. 🙂
Nothing really.
Not 35mm anymore. Digital offers too many benefits and the downsides, if any, are too minor to be bothered with. Being able to shift ISO at any moment, B&W or color, no expensive and time-consuming trips to the lab (or darkroom), and (maybe most important for me) instant feedback on errors of judgement.
Medium format may still hold a bit of sway with me, but not for any real practical reason. Just one last emotional connection to film, so it might as well be a big negative that I get out of it. 🙂
FrankS
Registered User
I've never given up hope for you, Joe.
Godfrey
somewhat colored
It's interesting ... When I first started shooting seriously with digital (2002), I sold all my 35mm gear and bought medium format gear. Shot with both for a year. When I bought my first 6Mpixel DSLR, I knew I could get the quality I wanted out of that and it obsoleted the medium format gear.
What I mostly like working with in film nowadays is 35mm (out of nostalgia probably) and ultraminiature formats, like Minox 8x11, which returns unique aesthetic qualities that I like a lot.
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
jky
Well-known
Medium format
Rolleiflex 2.8 + a very good friend that will process and scan for me.
ElectroWNED
Well-known
If I had the ability to stay in one place long enough, I'd buy developing and printing equipment that would allow me to move back to film.
As it is, I simply move around too much, and the cost and inconvenience of having film developed and placed onto a CD are simply too great.
I'd love to be able to shoot medium format and develop and make huge prints... 🙄
As it is, I simply move around too much, and the cost and inconvenience of having film developed and placed onto a CD are simply too great.
I'd love to be able to shoot medium format and develop and make huge prints... 🙄
sepiareverb
genius and moron
Having spent the last few days in the darkroom printing after a serious consideration of the M-Monochrom I'm sticking with film for B&W. I've been all digital for color for a few years now, but I don't think I could give up the darkroom, or the look of a good B&W wet print - that is something I'd miss...
But for color I can't imagine going back. The control one has over the process is so much more complete than it ever was with film & wet prints. And while I know it could be the same with digital B&W the surface and depth of a B&W fiber print trumps what an inkjet spits out. If there was only RC B&W paper I would absolutely feel differently.
But for color I can't imagine going back. The control one has over the process is so much more complete than it ever was with film & wet prints. And while I know it could be the same with digital B&W the surface and depth of a B&W fiber print trumps what an inkjet spits out. If there was only RC B&W paper I would absolutely feel differently.
Contarama
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I never left in the first place. 🙂
ReeRay
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That's exactly where I am. I love rangefinders and medium format but simply cannot afford the digital versions. So film it is. That's not to say that film is a compromise though. In have a vast complement of digital gear but I find it's immediacy counter productive. The slow and deliberate use of film, coupled with it's costings, puts a greater demand on me and is invariably beneficial. Try as I might, I just cannot introduce this discipline into my digital approach.
Another issue is time. Being retired I have lots of it. Filling the day becomes a real issue in retirement. Digital shooting does not fill the day. A days film shooting and subsequent developing, printing and scanning keeps me gainfully employed for several days.
loquax ludens
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I have a digital camera (X-Pro 1) and I like it quite a lot. But I'm in love with film and darkroom printing. Using my digital camera just doesn't satisfy me the way that using my film cameras do. I'm fixing up a Fujimoto CP-31 right now so I can make RA-4 prints from my color negatives.
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Nikon Bob
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Sadly, not much would get me back to shooting film again.
Bob
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gavinlg
Veteran
Wow really? Are we talking technical stuff or what really counts, the image? Film isn't that hard to use.
Godfrey
somewhat colored
That's an awfully confrontational statement.
I'd shorten it to just "Film takes more work." and add "I like the way the photos I make with it look." rather than load up my opinion with so much aggression. 🙂
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