film or digital and age

[gho]

Is film or digital usage related to age here at RFF? Are the younger ones using predominantly digital and the older ones predominantly film or is it the other way round? Or event totally different? Let's find out!

 

[begona]

I am 24 and I am using film. In my photographic "career" I used digital only cca 6 months.
B&W film has better dynamic range than digital and that is main reason why I am using it.

Now I am looking for some digital camera with great BW DR but it is hard to find... :/

 

[FrankS]

Sure, there is likely a positive correlation between an older age and higher film use because that's what us old guys were brought up on, and vice versa. However, there are many old guys switching over to digital, and some young ones trying out film.

 

[jesse1dog]

I might be one of the 'older brigade' here on RFF!

I feel an urge to use film until .......I realise the time and effort needed to just set-up the processing needed let alone doing it. And waiting for a roll to be taken, sent off, and returned, doesn't give me the satisfaction (or otherwise) of seeing the results in the evening that I took them. So I guess it's really convenience and immediancy that takes me to digital.

I know the results even from film will never be quite as I imagined the scene I photographed, so what really matters to me is the picture I subsequently produce. Interestingly I still have a film outlook where every single shot needed to be so carefully considered because of the costs involved for a poor student and then low earner. It is a digital luxury to be able to take a second or third shot of a subject, and I find I still don't. But now I do take more 'risky' shots.

jesse

 

[TXForester]

Interestingly I still have a film outlook where every single shot needed to be so carefully considered because of the costs involved for a poor student and then low earner. It is a digital luxury to be able to take a second or third shot of a subject, and I find I still don't. But now I do take more 'risky' shots.

jesse

That's where I am. I'd love to shoot more film. I'd love to do that until there comes a point where I just can't find film that interests me.

 

[Stuart John]

Well I'm 41 mostly digital with some film for fun. My film use is likely to increase though as I enjoy B&W film much more than digital B&W. I am intending to try to make the most of B&W film while it is still easily available and reasonably priced so I will look to use digital much less.

 

[zauhar]

What is truly surprising is that (as of this moment) the only age category that is 'primarily digital' is > 60!

Randy

 

[sepiareverb]

I'm about to be 50, I shoot perhaps a little more film than digital these days, but not a lot more at all.

I've been contemplating the MM, but would miss the darkroom too much. A lot of investigation into the available digital enlargers has convinced me it's not time yet.

 

[gshybrid]

interesting results so far... highest film use is with 20-29, I wonder if that will hold?
I'm in the 50-59 tier and I shoot more digital images but spend a lot more time(and enery) with film.

 

[Murchu]

Right now, I am predominantly film. My film/ digital balance swings back and forth though, with strong spells of either, and 50/50 over time would be a fairer reflection.

 

[leicamshooter]

Digital if I have to.... but film is the only reason I'm on this forum. Love it!

 

[denizg7]

WOW IM THE 1 PERCENT YAAY <20, predominantly film 1 1.43%

 

[Sid836]

40 and mostly digital (but not exclusively). Funny that my fallback to film has started in my 40s (just wonder if it signals anything).

 

[John E Earley]

I'm in the most mature group and although I voted "film," I also use digital almost half the time.

 

[Vics]

This is shaping up to be pretty interesting!

 

[Vics]

WOW IM THE 1 PERCENT YAAY <20, predominantly film 1 1.43%

That's two of us, except I'm 67.

 

[ruby.monkey]

I'm 42, and usage is working out to be roughly 50:50.

 

[traveler_101]

At this point the old group (including me) is primarily film--no surprise there; I entered adult life before the digital age, before PCs were a part of everyday life. Among those 40-60 digital use by percentage is mush higher; this is the generation that came of age with computer technologies. But those in the 20-40 age group who take computers for granted have shifted back to film. They are choosing film over digital. A wonderful sign! Of course, this poll is hardly a scientific study.

 

[Adanac]

After more than 30 years of darkroom work, for a stretch of time paid to do it (used to do catalogue photography for an in-house design department of a manufacturer) -- my lab is packed up and will shortly be donated to a local photographer.

I was shooting almost all film just a couple of years ago but was progressively less active with each passing year. I didn't hold on to film that long because I'm a luddite; in fact I've been in the IT industry for a long time now. It just took me a while to adopt digital photography, partly because I had to let go of my own preconceived notions of stepping down from medium format. That in hindsight I see as a mistake for me.

I'm 51, now working with an all digital process and have no regrets as I'm having as much fun and enjoyment as ever. This year I'll even embrace... egads, autofocus. 🙂

 

[back alley]

i love autofocus...


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