how many times you tried to go digital?

[Mackinaw]

Hard to deny the digital advantage when it comes to using high ISO’s.

Tomorrow I’m shooting some engagement pics. I’ll be using digital for color, a 35mm film camera for B&W, and my 4X5 loaded with Kodak Ektar for some (hopefully) dramatic fall color pictures.

I have ideas in my head and I use the appropriate camera gear to capture the image. I don’t care if it’s film or digital.

Jim B.

 

[KM-25]

It's funny how people talk about "going digital" as if it is a destination or a place of no return, lol! I never "went digital", I simply added it to the tool kit some 22 years ago.

I love all my digital tools, M240, D750, D810, iPhone 7+ & especially my Hasselblad CFV50c back. But there is no way in hell I will ever stop shooting film and thankfully I won't have to.

The two are equally awesome, life is good.

 

[thawkins]

I use digital for convenience and you must admit the versality of a DSLR is unmatched. However I don't like the cheap plastic feel of my D90, it's lack of ruggedness, it's size and the overnight obsolescence of any electronic product. I have had this camera for six years and it is falling apart. The battery cover hinge is broken, the filter ring has been repaired with glue and the shutter replaced once. Just as a modern auto is a computer on wheels, the DSLR is nothing but a computer that can take good pictures with little input from the operator. The modern auto is convenient and safe but a '57 Chevy is a lot more fun.
At the moment I am in Bozeman, Mt. on business and I am going to spend the weekend with a QL17 and a Minolta XD11 loaded respectively with Delta 100 and Velvia 50. The Bridger mountains have their first coating of snow for the season, the clouds are dramatic the old cameras are ready and so am I!!

 

[Landberg]

I have tried many times. I used Leica M2, M5, M4-P and M6, loved them. But i didnt have the time for developing and scaning. I tried the X100t, hated it. I bought the Leica M9, it's good but not like the film Leicas. Now i have the Panasonic GX80/85 with the Leica/panasonic Summilux 15 and i love it! The first digital i really like.

 

[richard_l]

I use both.

It took awhile to find digital cameras with what I consider to be sufficiently intuitive controls, and that turned out to be the Leica X series. Sure, they are P&S with APS-C sensors, but that doesn't matter as long as they do what I want.

For film, I use mostly 35mm rangefinders, and this, as always, remains my #1 interest.

 

[mynikonf2]

going digital or not

going digital or not

I've tried going digital more times than I care to remember. 😱 I try to convince myself that digital is the direction that all photography is headed but I suspect I'll continue to fail at that conversion .

Film photography is requiring more effort to obtain the film & then process it. However, the results of using film produce the aesthetic quality that I'm searching for. This aesthetic has an intuitive nature rather than the rigid series of ones and zeros that is digital (an example being the difference between the product of an ink jet printer verses the work of a calligrapher).

It is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain the type and quantity of film I prefer to work with, I anticipate this trend to continue. With that in mind, I will also continue to think about converting to a digital format but for as long as I can purchase film I will use the medium I prefer & love working with.

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[lawrence]

Hard to deny the digital advantage when it comes to using high ISO’s.

Agreed, this is for me the biggest gamechanger as far as 'going digital' is concerned. You can easily get images that you could only dream about when shooting a film camera handheld, so the solution is to use both.

 

[Ronald M]

One time, the years back. Still do 98% digital.


Working with film again just for occasional monochrome print. Miss the darkroom.

 

[Dwig]

Just once and never look back.

Same here.

I changed over a long period. I "studied" digital, doing more graphic arts orientated work and image work from scans, beginning in the mid-80s in that ancient BP era (Before Photoshop). I kept up with digital imaging from its infancy and bought my first digital camera around 1996 and by 1999 I'd replaced my everyday film cameras with a digital one. I haven't shot film in any form since about 2001 except one roll to experiment with an old film stereo camera about 8 years ago.

 

[kbg32]

I've been completely digital for about 14 - 15 years.

 

[f16sunshine]

As many times as I tried to "go" film. Once... They both just worked and still do 🙂

 

[dee]

Retired , I miss my Minolta SRT plus Contax / Kiev and colour slide films process paid - equivalent to jpeg ? - but I ma content with digital , helped by an M8 and recently , a Fuji X-Pro 1 , even my 1st DSLR - Leica Digilux 3 .
Without digital , I am unsure if I could afford much film ...
dee

 

[Jake Mongey]

I go through phases but i rarely shoot it willingly. Film is way more enjoyable for me

 

[ChrisPlatt]

Thanks Bill. I work with computers and automation every day at work, so it's not a matter of fear.
For the types of photography I am interested in doing the digitals are never superior to film.

Unlike classic film cameras digital camera controls are not standardized, and IMO there are too many of them.
Digital cameras are therefore more complicated to use, maintaining creative control to obtain similar results.

I don't want this to degenerate into another film vs digital thread. I'm just not interested in digital cameras in their current form.
But if they ever make a digital camera that replicates the standard simple control set of a classic film camera
and offers similar results I'll be glad to give it a try.

Chris

 

[daveleo]

I migrated to digital slow and steady over probably 5 years. I am now 100% digitized.
But as noted in the last few postings, in terms of camera handling and man-machine bonding, something has been lost, going from mechanical film cameras to digital cameras.
But, now that I think about it, that loss of "intimacy" (?) began when film cameras moved towards automation.