4. May understand that photography is photography and not let the medium get in the way of what matters... photos.
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4. May understand that photography is photography and not let the medium get in the way of what matters... photos.
Cal, are you saying that if you make prints from an inkjet, you are not an artist? 🙂
But you haven't tried any alternatives yet... 😕
louisbrown08
Member
18, using digital for most of my 'work' photography e.g. events, weddings etc. as it calls for it, but for all my personal projects and work its all film, just how i like it.
Colin G.
Established
29; only film. Thinking of going digital with something on offer from Fuji.
Red Rock Bill
Well-known
I'm 69 and shoot a lot of digital photographs...however I'll be working on a color film pinhole project in NYC the latter part of Oct...so I'd have to say I use what is appropriate for the project.....regards,Bill
ramosa
B&W
i first shot film exclusively (back in the day) and then digital exclusively for more than 10 years. but recently i have been experimenting with film again ... a return of sorts, but i still have two digital cameras, as well. i'm not sure what will come of this experimentation, but i'm glad to have the opportunity.
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
I sometimes wonder what impression film makes on someone young ... a child of the digital age!
Seeing a negative come out of a developing tank is almost a religious experience for many of us ... how does someone in their twenties or younger perceive it when they see it for the first time?
Seeing a negative come out of a developing tank is almost a religious experience for many of us ... how does someone in their twenties or younger perceive it when they see it for the first time?
denizg7
Well-known
Keith I always had high respects for the elderly, when I was growing up i would listen to my grand father and my great uncle's war stories , and I always believed history was a reoccurring cycle and therefor it was the wisest thing to do listen up and don't do the same mistakes.
I see film as a reminder of the gold age where there was something reminiscent about the way it glowed to me. Then I remembered all the history I read about all the pictures from my great grandfather's and my grandfather's photographs that were archived in their navy chest.
I think using film reminds us symbolically where we came from , and how it started first for only the fortunate , before the kodak brownies , and it reminds us that we don't need the new features of digital cameras, faster zooming , faster auto focusing , but rather we have to return to our traditional values and what made them great in the first place. Most importantly less materialism.
c.poulton
Well-known
46 and exclusively a film shooter.
OK, I've been tempted by the 'digital siren call', especially with the release of the Leica MM, however the closer I look, the more I realise that I just don't like the 'look' of digital.
Also, I've been taking photographs for over 32 years with film and I'm so used to it that I just don't want to learn a new digital workflow. Unfortunately I had to give up my darkroom when I moved house years ago and would love to build another one some day, but for now I have got used to scanning my negs.
I also enjoy using 'old' film cameras - I get a great buzz out of going out with an old mechanical camera and capturing images every bit as good as any taken with the latest whizz-bang dSLR.
That's not to say I won't ever own a digital camera in my life time - the look of digital (especially with the leica MM for example) is getting more film like so my view is slowly changing......
But, for now, I am a film guy, through and through! 🙂
OK, I've been tempted by the 'digital siren call', especially with the release of the Leica MM, however the closer I look, the more I realise that I just don't like the 'look' of digital.
Also, I've been taking photographs for over 32 years with film and I'm so used to it that I just don't want to learn a new digital workflow. Unfortunately I had to give up my darkroom when I moved house years ago and would love to build another one some day, but for now I have got used to scanning my negs.
I also enjoy using 'old' film cameras - I get a great buzz out of going out with an old mechanical camera and capturing images every bit as good as any taken with the latest whizz-bang dSLR.
That's not to say I won't ever own a digital camera in my life time - the look of digital (especially with the leica MM for example) is getting more film like so my view is slowly changing......
But, for now, I am a film guy, through and through! 🙂
nighstar
eternal beginner
i'm 27, but my first cameras (although just cheap P&Ss) used film + Polaroid was very much around when i grew up, so film was never something entirely new to me. developing film myself, however, didn't happen until very recently and i have to say it is magical bringing your negatives to life with your own hands. 🙂
kossi008
Photon Counter
Funny thing is, it seems exactly the other way around here on RFF... go figure...
Photo_Smith
Well-known
I shoot both, I put mostly film I'm in my mid 40's. On a straw poll of friends and colleagues the older ones were mostly digital the 20-40 mostly film or both.
I think middle age makes us less likely to use film, because we have more disposable income, have grown up with film and develop a 'meh been there, done that-can't buy Kodachrome' attitude.
I would say I expect 20-40s to be film or a mixture and the 50+ to be mainly digital-just judging by experience.
I think middle age makes us less likely to use film, because we have more disposable income, have grown up with film and develop a 'meh been there, done that-can't buy Kodachrome' attitude.
I would say I expect 20-40s to be film or a mixture and the 50+ to be mainly digital-just judging by experience.
Exactly... film isn't exotic if you used it for a long time.
I'd say this is encouraging... I guess its the novelty factor / lifestyle factors coming into play here.
mike-s
Established
I am a bit surprised. The over 60s is the only group in which digital use is greater than film. I would have expected the results to be the other way round. I suppose we have to consider that fact that the respondents are all members of this forum so the results may be weighted in favour of film.
Michael Markey
Veteran
When I attended my local camera club I found that the over 60s were by far the most vociferous adherents ...there was always a sense of "we`re glad that we`ve left all that film stuff behind".
"This is better and we wish we`d had it back then."
The younger end just accepted it because its all they knew.
Out of about forty /fifty people ....80% over fifty there was only myself and another chap that used film.
The "attention" was tiresome at times and it was always from the old timers.
GaryLH
Veteran
These days mainly digital... At best in the past around 40% film.. The last three months more like 10%. When I shoot film, it is mainly mf format b&w, some 35mm... Still develop myself, Rodinal and hc110.. Put away my wet darkroom ages ago..
Gary
Gary
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
There's a lot more people in the over sixty group who have had hip replacements, have haemorrhoid problems, have failing eyesight, poor memory etc etc!
Why not digital as well? :angel:
😀
Roger Hicks
Veteran
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
wcurtiss
Member
I'm 37 and I use film almost exclusively these days. I have a digital camera and I do use it from time to time for quick facebook type shots but otherwise it sits on my shelf gathering dust. Film just has a certain look that digital cant quite reproduce. I really want to start developing my own film but my budget is limited right now for all the equipment/chemicals.