I simply love film

[shadowfox]

Yes, digital photography is excellent, so clean, rich, vibrant, and life-like...

Wait, life-like? life-replica you mean...

But sometimes I don't want a replica, I just want to remember a lazy evening walk with my daugther...

Not a replica of what I saw, but it's just the way I remember it...
I love film.

 

[CC72]

Here, here. Absolutely.

 

[otaku]

well said! (this goes not only for photography but movies to I hate stuff shot digitally)

 

[Hélix]

Indeed well said!

 

[robert blu]

...visual poetry...
rob

 

[shadowfox]

Thank you all, it's nice to see others who share the same sentiment

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

I really need to start developing the dozens of rolls I've got in my backlog.

But here's a few

In color...

Leica M6 + Nikkor 3.5cm f/2.5 LTM / Agfa Vista 100

In B&W (of course)...

Leica M6 + 50mm f/1.4 Summilux pre-asph E46 / Ilford HP5+ @ISO 800 in Diafine

 

[lushd]

I say - well said. Voigtlander Bessa R, Delta 400, Color Skopar 35mm, Paris:

 

[shadowfox]

Nice photos guys!

keep 'em coming.

 

[pesphoto]

Here's a few random pics.

 

[Tuolumne]

"I really need to start developing the dozens of rolls I've got in my backlog."

This is what keeps me from a wholehearted embrace of film.

/T
P.S. But I love the shots that eventually do see the light of day.

 

[shadowfox]

"I really need to start developing the dozens of rolls I've got in my backlog."

This is what keeps me from a wholehearted embrace of film.

/T
P.S. But I love the shots that eventually do see the light of day.

That's why I leave the development to the lab
... at least until I can develop myself, then I'll have the same complaints as you do

Let's continue, shall we?

 

[zuikologist]

Great photos, especially the first ones Shadowfox. Very evocative.

 

[shadowfox]

Thank you, zuikologist, waiting for yours

 

[raid]

Thank you all, it's nice to see others who share the same sentiment

I agree with you.

 

[charjohncarter]

Here is one of my dumb images. It would have been nada in digital, but you will at least look at it in film. You are right on, Will

 

[shadowfox]

John, no dumb images allowed here

Here I only see a well exposed sharp and colorful picture! The vignetting is lovely.

More please.

 

[mackigator]

I think this is hitting on one of film's clear strengths.

I rarely want a copy of reality in a photo. I want the idealized perfect version of an event, not the event as it actually occurred. I want the woman in my minds eye, so to speak, to appear. Give me the dream, printed, so I can show it to the world and perhaps have a few admit that the world could indeed be a better place.

Film has helped me approach that goal.

OT: While in D.C. over Thanksgiving, I saw the Snapshot exhibit and the Edward Hopper exhibit at the National gallery. Also the Ansel Adams and Annie Leibovitz exhibit at the Corcoran museum. Wow. If you're nearby, you should go see this stuff. Inspiring at the minimum.

Sundog

 

[venchka]

Tis the season

Tis the season

A fall memory. Thanks for looking.

 

[zgeeRF]

I always loved film... and more so after having tasted digital. Never appreciated C-41 film before being able to scan and work on it myself though. The store prints were always dull compared to home-baked B+W..
Here is a sample of a store scan adjusted at home.. (Walgreens film, Konica hex. 35mm)