how many times you tried to go digital?

[jbielikowski]

Just for yourself, don't count that Big Bad Black DSLR for paid gigs. I think I tried at least five times, most recently with M9 and X100 I just decided to get rid of after like three weeks.

 

[ktmrider]

I am still trying as I have both M9 and M2's. I had X100 but sold it last year and thinking about selling the M9 as I post this. Photoshop is still a strange application to me and I do not use my phone for photos.

Technology has its advantages but I am an analog watch, film camera and fountain pen kind of guy. The best aircraft ever designed was a DC3 and the best helicopter was a UH-1.

 

[vladimir]

Just once and never look back.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Did it once it become available at reasonable price. It is practical way to save on film and time.
Now I have digital for pictures I need and film for pictures I want.

 

[Bill Clark]

I've been using some black & white film lately.

I mix film and digital together. I like them both.

 

[Pioneer]

I have tried to go just film or just digital several times and it has not worked.

I finally quit worrying about it and now I use both, for different purposes of course. They each add value for me.

 

[tightsqueez]

Yup... isn't it great for those who are a little more evolutionary adapted; can shoot both film AND digital at the same time. Isn't it great being an omnivore?

I seriously do not get the psychological issue with digital vs. film. When have we forgotten good images? The moments? Many GREAT photographers have done the same transition.

 

[Godfrey]

Just for yourself, don't count that Big Bad Black DSLR for paid gigs. I think I tried at least five times, most recently with M9 and X100 I just decided to get rid of after like three weeks.

I have no idea what "don't count that Big Bad Black DSLR for paid gigs" means. I've never 'tried to go digital'.

I have been working with digital images and digital image processing since 1984—professionally, as part of my work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. I started scanning my prints, then my negatives, at home in 1993-1994 or thereabouts. I bought my first useful digital camera in 2002. I still have film cameras, still process film, still scan and render my film images; just bought another film camera recently, haven't had a chance to use it yet. My Leica M-D and SL are used regularly too.

I just do photography, eh? What's the difficulty?

G

 

[Pioneer]

Yup... isn't it great for those who are a little more evolutionary adapted; can shoot both film AND digital at the same time. Isn't it great being an omnivore?

I seriously do not get the psychological issue with digital vs. film. When have we forgotten good images? The moments? Many GREAT photographers have done the same transition.

It is certainly a terrific time in history to be a photographer.

Professional grade film cameras in many format choices are available at fire sale prices.

If you can wait two or three years, most high budget digital cameras are on sale as well since they become obsolete in so many people's minds.

The Canon EOS 1Ds and Nikon D2X can both be had for under $400. That is unbelievable for cameras that cost at least 10 times that much when they were introduced.

 

[sara]

3 or 4 I think, and then I tried to force myself to like it but it didn't happen. Lol.

 

[narsuitus]

how many times you tried to go digital?

I never tried to go digital. I use digital and I use film.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I use digital for all of my color work and have done so for several years.

I still shoot film for black and white.

 

[helen.HH]

Countless !

Have enjoyed them for a Quck Fix BUT then become Bored
then the Gear goes up for grabs here on RFf
and I'm back with Film

 

[pvdhaar]

No matter how often I tried to get rid of analog gear and sold it off, it somehow manages to replace itself time and time again. At some point I even happened to buy back the 6x6 SLR I sold 5 years earlier.. This analog thing, it's like a leaking boat, it's hopeless..

 

[p.giannakis]

Twice. Still have the EOS 10D, I use it to take pictures of my film cameras that take pictures i like.

 

[mod2001]

I tried it several times too, simply not working. Small reasons? Many. Much too clean files (same reason I don't like T-max), cameras with thousand buttons, their prices (at least the new ones I like), post processing, backup orgies, you name it.

If I had to go digital these days, Canon's Queen mum and Leica's M8 would be on my list first, still thinking sometimes to buy on of these for color stuff as I don't need high ISO, but, and this ist the biggest but, I simply find no real connection to digital files on a computer, somehow they don't have any value for me. The same reason why I don't use an e-book reader. It gives me no satisfaction when reading this way. Think I'm an analogue guy, same with music, never stopped buying vinyl.

Don't think that one medium is per se better than the other, they are just different.

Yogi

 

[Bruno Gracia]

every 30 days or so, constant struggle.

 

[John Bragg]

I have stuck with film right through. My only concession is that I now scan negatives and hence I am a hybrid photographer. I love my film cameras and all the tactile experience that is involved in their use. I really enjoy the experience of developing film and would still print with my enlarger if time and space permitted but I am more than happy with my hybrid output. I have the best of both worlds, digital files to share and negatives on file to archive or re-visit at leisure.

 

[telenous]

Never, in the sense you ask the question (I've used digital for paid gigs). But I don't carry this like a badge of honour. I have friends who do awfully good work with digital and I am mightily tempted. Then I ask if digital solves a particular problem I have with my existing setup and its intended purpose, and, mostly, it doesn't. Were I shooting more colour than I do, however, I'd have gone full throttle for it.

 

[Fjäll]

I'm about to go all film. Just got my X100 and GR yet to be translated into a 50 summilux.