Film vs digital cameras at PhotoLA

[nikon_sam]

If you happen to come across some guy with a Mamiya m645 and a back pack in the downtown part of LA...that's me...

 

[Keith]

I feel a need to investigate film popularity in New Zealand. 😀 All in the name of science, I make the sacrifice.

I have it on good authority from my sister who lives in Auckland that they are still trying to figure out the lithograph! 😀

 

[tunalegs]

the bummer is that you rarely see people taking photos with their film cameras. all around you, people are snapping away with cellphones, but the film shooters hold back to save money, making every shot count. it really is more of a fashion accessory.

I keep re-reading this trying to find some strand of logic to connect all the sentences. There just isn't one.

Phones are a fashion accessory? Or cameras are? What "it" are we talking about? Surely not cameras, because one can hardly engage in conspicuous consumption by holding back and saving money. So it must be phones?

 

[leicapixie]

Speaking to Millennial, one finds out they all own phones. The film camera is solely for 'photography" and prints. The old way. i never gave up film, but digital has often given me up! More cameras, more computers used and gone! My old enlarger from the 60's still in service, my M3 celebrating 50 years in pro use.
Toronto definitely see many SLR and Rf film cameras.

 

[bucs]

I see film cameras all over LA. If they are being used by kids I'll often give them a roll of film if I have any extras with me. Which I usually do.

I'll be visiting LA this June

Hope I run into to you for the free film 😀

 

[zuiko85]

Here at Olympia, Wa. film seldom seen, at least walking around the town. Lots of local artists display photographs, most digital, perhaps 5% original image on film. At least one young lady used a Mamiya C 220 and traditional wet darkroom for studio and some outside photography (I know what camera she used, I sold it to her) but I heard she moved to Seattle. Don't get out as much as I once did, still see a film camera about once a year.

 

[emraphoto]

"Throwing away paper plates is easier than washing china, but at Thanksgiving, we don't use disposable plates"

Going to borrow this if you don't mind 🙂

 

[emraphoto]

Speaking to Millennial, one finds out they all own phones. The film camera is solely for 'photography" and prints. The old way. i never gave up film, but digital has often given me up! More cameras, more computers used and gone! My old enlarger from the 60's still in service, my M3 celebrating 50 years in pro use.
Toronto definitely see many SLR and Rf film cameras.

This is why I now shoot film cameras exclusively. Beyond video I no longer purchase digital cameras. Over the past 2 years I have had over $3500 in digital cameras go belly up for reasons not attributed to every day use. For me (notice disclaimer) this is not acceptable.