Film or digital

Film or digital

  • 100% film

    Votes: 189 33.7%
  • 75% film 25% digital

    Votes: 145 25.8%
  • 50% film 50% digital

    Votes: 92 16.4%
  • 25% film 75% digital

    Votes: 108 19.3%
  • 100% digital

    Votes: 27 4.8%

  • Total voters
    561
I only use the digital p/s for family stuff-birthday parties and the like. The rest is pretty evenly split between bw film, chrome, and C41.
 
shutterflower said:
I take more shots with the little Canon P&S digital, but I keep alot more of my RF645 film shots.

Similar to shutterflower.
I bought a Pentax *istDL2 "for the wife":angel:, but I prefer film - and get more keepers with it.

Best regards,
Uwe
 
My preference is for B/W. The Didge gets used for color. My guess is that I'm presently shooting a 70/30 ratio of film versus digital. That's for personal use. At work, my work flow is 90 percent digital.
 
I voted 75/25 Digital over Film, but really it's more like 98% digital, 2% film. Mostly I have a lot of film cameras that I like, so there's always one with some film in it that I'll occasionally fire off just for the joy of using the camera. Or sometimes because I want to use B+W film.

j
 
75 - 80% Digital. 20 - 25% film.

Digital for work. Requires fast turnaround and upload to news server. Papers are all going digital these days.

Film for hobby and simply to keep my hands on shooting film.
 
50/50. I love both for different reasons, and often use them together. For anything that requires tweaking (like lighting with flash), I'll get everything worked out using the DSLR, and then pull out the 6x7 or 4x5. A DSLR is a killer light meter.

The DSLR is also great for social/party shots and concert photography. Plus, the film version of your DSLR usually costs less than a battery for your digital. I picked up a featherweight EOS Rebel Ti recently for $20. It's nice to shoot full-frame without having to pay for (or lug around) a 5D. 🙂 Loaded with neg film, the Rebel Ti is also a one-shot HDR camera by digital standards. I went to Vegas recently and didn't even bother taking a digital camera -- only neg film can handle the signs without blowing out.

I love my Mamiya 7, but I love the luscious 6x7 negatives and transparencies even more. There's no portable digital camera that can come close. It's a monster.

For portraits and other more carefully-composed shots, you can't beat 4x5. I think of my Super Graphic as a $300, 100 megapixel camera. Or in other words, Super Graphic: US$3.00/MP. Rebel XTi: US$68.00/MP. Leica M8: US$465.53/MP...

Ha 🙂
 
For the sheer convenience of it, I shoot about 75% digital, about 75% of that with an ultracompact digi and the other 25% with a DSLR. I use film mainly for B&W and on the film side shoot about 40% with RF, 40% with SLR, and 20% with medium format.

Gene
 
No intention of going digital... 100% satisfied with my Leica M6 and Tri-X or Neopan. I love the traditional darkroom process from start to finish and nothing will change that.
 
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