digital users...what would entice you back to film?

[totifoto]

Moving from Iceland, prices here on anything related to photography are ridiculous, even if I order from over seas I have to pay 25.5% taxes on everything + shipping that is most of the time huge amounts. 😡

Example: Kodak Trix costs me 8$, and that is the cheapest one I can get here, the highest price I have seen is 22$.

 

[Ranchu]

Digital delivers infinitely better than film could ever hope for...as long as we have electricity!

No, you made that up. Very clever tactic. Let's compare the pictures on the opening pages of these two flickr groups, SHALL WE?

http://www.flickr.com/groups/canondslr/

http://www.flickr.com/groups/573182@N24/

Tell me how much you prefer the digital shots, go ahead.

😛

 

[fotomeow]

"digital users...what would entice you back to film?"

I do shoot film off and on. I have found that I just really dig trying new film cameras, shooting some film,
learning about them and their pictorial characteristics, then eventually selling them, and buying another,
and so on and so forth.

right now it happens to be a IIIF with my LTM lenses. I've got a replacement Minox GL to try out, etc. Its kind of like a bucket list thing.
There are camera outfits I have drooled over for years, so I try them, live the dream, then move on.Down the road, I will eventually cave for a
Rolleiflex TLR and a Hassy/Fuji Xpan, Widelux, etc.... the list goes on and on ...... thats the beauty of this perpetual hobby.

 

[peripatetic]

Mainly, simply being able to afford to buy film and send it off for high-rez scanning.

The bit between clicking the shutter and having the image to work with in PS is just a PITA, though I love the end result of a great film scan.

Oh and also being able to get 220 roll film. 10 frames per roll is beyond annoying. Slowing down doesn't help me. If anything it screws up my shooting. I agree that all that counts is the end result.

IMO a very large percentage of LF & MF shooters spend a whole day making just a few terrible images and convincing themselves they were the best possible images that could have been captured. I can take hundreds of bad photos in the same amount of time! Thousands if I'm shooting digital. 🙂

 

[Godfrey]

I'll respond to this thread again a different way.

I use both film and digital cameras. I'll continue to. What I love about some film cameras, beyond the medium and the photographs, is how they work, how they feel in my hands. Same thing I love about some digital cameras.

So yeah, if a really nice film camera happens into my hands, I'll shoot with film just for the pleasure of using it. 🙂

 

[Ronald M]

Availability of proper hardware and chemicals. Chems have been getting difficult for 30 years now for color, paper is not made by Kodak for home darkroom.

Scanners are priced obscenely, good ones anyway.

Monochrome stuff is still plentiful or at least available.

Guess I have gone over the darkside and most likely will not return. Spouse is thrilled to get me out of the darkroom.