Do you Shoot Film or Digital?

Do you Shoot Film or Digital?

  • All Film

    Votes: 190 19.8%

  • Mostly Film, Some Digital

    Votes: 358 37.3%

  • All Digital

    Votes: 55 5.7%

  • Mostly Digital, Some Film

    Votes: 357 37.2%
  • Total voters
    960
Today I took some of my film gear for part exchange, watching the guy hold it and test it, load it with a cheap film and take a few shots... well, put it this way I still have it. 🙂 I just couldn't sell it, and tomorrow I'm taking it out loaded with Kodachrome, even though I'll never be able to get it processed!

Still buying an X100 though 🙂
 
40% Film and 60% digital

40% Film and 60% digital

My shooting was just the opposite last year but now is going toward the digital side. But I really feel alive when I'm shooting B&W film.
 
I've had a realisation, I don't like to process film in the winter. And so I shoot digital. In the summer, I really enjoy processing film standing in a sun spot by the window, so I shoot film.

Maybe I should just save it all up for summer 🙂
 
_larky said:
Today I took some of my film gear for part exchange, watching the guy hold it and test it, load it with a cheap film and take a few shots... well, put it this way I still have it. 🙂 I just couldn't sell it, and tomorrow I'm taking it out loaded with Kodachrome, even though I'll never be able to get it processed!

Still buying an X100 though 🙂
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Process your Kodachrome with regular black and white chemistry. It'll come out a bit flat, but that'll be good for scanning.
 
A year ago, 90% film. Today, 90% digital. Why? Digital is so convenient. Having said this, I am getting deep cravings to do a lot more film.
 
First of all I'd like to say hi to all. Nice forum..😉
My photography began during my time in Africa (1996-2003) and there I shot slides only. But back in Switzerland, I have started to shoot weddings and soon changed to digital which I still do. BUT, I just received my first Leica (used M7) and still wait for a rather old Mamiya 220 to get back into film and slides. Its all very exiting right now...😉
 
3rdtrick said:
I really like the idea of playing with all the old film cameras. It is just awesome what you can pick up for a few bucks...
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Beeing only a hobby photographer, I'm not under delivery pressure from any clients.

Perhaps this is one reason because I can afford the time doing my shots mostly on film and waiting a day for the processing. Or even 3 days if it will be sent to a specialized lab.

For а first survey I like the lab scans a lot. After many tries I did find a lab doing also the scan job very well. Few of them go (with minimal post processing) to my gallery. And for even less of them I go back to the lab and print some good quality copies (from the film master, not the scan!).

I would guess 80 % film is my game.
 
Digital killed photography for me for many years. Having built up a sizeable SLR outfit (Minolta) that was suddenly unsupported and worthless because none of the manual focus lenses worked on any digital body, I couldn't face starting again.

Digicams give awful results with their infinite DOF and have a "still video" quality, regardless of the resolution or colour accuracy. DSLRs have the same DOF problem unless they're full-frame and I'm not going to buy anything that expensive that will be obsolete that quickly.

I think film is reaching some form of stability. Kodak may stop making it (they seem to have stopped caring) but Fuji seem to be more firmly behind it and there is new stuff coming out of Eastern Europe. Look at vinyl records for an analogy; they're come back very strongly in the last decade. It's just sad that you can't get some of the wacky emulsions that used to be around; Konica SRG3200, HIE, EIR and Technical Pan. I can keep going indefinitely on Reala and Acros though.
 
Well, last time this poll came around I shot about 50/50 digital to film. Now it's more like 80/20 digital to film (I'm in love with my Ricoh because it's the only digital camera I've tried that gets out of my way and lets me shoot).
 
Exactly. For example, my patented processing technique (which is easily the worst ever devised) gives my negatives character. I can get yellow colours out of Acros 100 souped in Rodinal. ??

I'm scanning in a load of negs from my Contax G1 days, all out of focus (poor thing's autofocus was crap really) but they look 10x niver than my pin sharp digital SLR shots. They have a real ballsy feel to them.
 
Film is just lovely, I am shooting it nearly 100% for myself unfortunately my clients want and need digital and that is 95% of what I shoot.
If I had a day job and photography was only a hobby, I can't see a reason to shoot digital.

Kevin.
 
Canon PS then m43 got me back into photography after a long layoff. Now I have mostly film cameras, and some days shoot nothing but film (and so support our longtime local developer business for negs and CDs).The percentage is still probably weighted 60/40 digital if only b/c I pack a GRD III whenever I leave the house. But my first Leica arrives (+ a Canon P) this week, and I'll devote lots of time to what they have to teach.
 
Film 100% of the time now. Really not missing the digital world.🙂

Large files and processing would require a major cost in upgrading to a new computer, software and archival equipment. As a full-time photographer these days, I don't have to worry about fast turnaround as documentaries are ready when I say they are ready.😛 Sure a lot less stress!

Reckon I will keep on truckin' with the Leica M and R bodies and my old Dell computer for a long time.😉
 
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