Five things I love about Film

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Five things I love about Film

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One of my favorite comments:

Rangefinder cameras!
Early on in my film photography experience I switched to using a Leica rangefinder and once I did, I never had any desire to use anything else. The rangefinder distills everything a camera needs to do down to its basic elements: aperture, shutter speed, focus and framing. Particularly on meterless models, there is absolutely no automation. Everything is manual. No batteries to worry about. A clean frameline which floats in space, allowing you to see your surroundings and compose accordingly. True, you can spend an absolutely obscene amount of money on one of today's digital Leicas, which will rapidly become obsolete, or you can pay a small fraction of that price for a used film model that will give you many, many years of service and hold - or even increase - its value over time.

 

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The reason I love film is simple.

It is pure & true to a fault.

Digital uses pixels which in the end are dots and 1 dot has to be the same color all the way through. This means your getting an image that is limited to the abilities of the one that did the programming.

But film is like water, no limitations in where the color lands. No pixels. Just the true image as seen through the lens. Yes, we can play with filters & gelatins & use different lenses to distort, but in the end the original negative is still pure & true to the original image.