If it wasn't for digital ...

[Keith]

If it wasn't for digital....we wouldn't be spending a lot of our free time on websites. You have 16,000 posts???
I know, I do it too. But sometimes when I'm about to sit down for another hour of surfing the net, I force myself to put on shoes, get the dogs, grab a camera, and take a walk or drive.

That's true of course but I'm still able to take plenty of photographs in the spaces during the day and this is where digital is so convenient. Plonking myself down in front of the computer and processing a few Merrill files is simple ... processing film and scanning just seem to get the better of me when I'm tired which is a lot of the time at the moment.

Working full time again wasn't part of my plan up until a couple of months ago and I'm only a few years away from retirement so I can live with it and the money is good. There is a lot of film in my freezer and it will wait until I have the time and energy for it ... I really enjoy the analog process and look forward to getting back into it eventually.

 

[OurManInTangier]

If it wasn't for digital I think my wife would have left me by now.

Locked in the bathroom, a perma smell of dev, a freezer with more film than food and a shower with films drying left, right and centre. Digital saved my marriage. 🙂

 

[Rangefinderfreak]

If it wasn't for digital I think my wife would have left me by now.

Locked in the bathroom, a perma smell of dev, a freezer with more film than food and a shower with films drying left, right and centre. Digital saved my marriage. 🙂

hehe, I got rid of all those women that were against my passions and likings. Now I am a free and happy guy, just walking peacefully to the sunset...

 

[robert blu]

If it wasn't for digital I think my wife would have left me by now.

Locked in the bathroom, a perma smell of dev, a freezer with more film than food and a shower with films drying left, right and centre. Digital saved my marriage. 🙂

This is another reason for which I quit the wet darkroom: in my working days until a couple of years ago I was leaving home on monday morning and coming back on friday and I felt very unsocial to close myself in a darkroom. Our apartment is organized as an open space: my wife can watch tv or read and I'm only a couple of meter from her working in front of the computer. We can chat if we like. It's ok like this for both of us.
robert

 

[noisycheese]

If it wasn't for digital I think my wife would have left me by now.

Locked in the bathroom, a perma smell of dev, a freezer with more film than food and a shower with films drying left, right and centre. Digital saved my marriage. 🙂

There's worse things that a married man could smell like, you know - other women and, uh, "exotic dancers" come to mind... 😉

 

[mooge]

Film need not be time-consuming!




(processes itself in an instant... or from 60-180 seconds, depending on the temperature)

(aside: I've begun to realize it's very important for me to shoot film now before all the cool stuff gets discontinued...)

 

[dblrifle]

I quit the DSLR world simply because of Digital requiring PC processing to achieve the max results just as Film requires darkroom work to achieve the same level. I have spent 40 years working with computers and actual learned in a rather short time to hate PC's. When involved with film I did zero,none,nada darkroom work as I hate it almost as much as PC's. So I went back to the simplicity of Rangefinder cameras and the simplicity of operation. Got my old M3 out of storage and bought some film but then when I found the paucity of processors and downright scarceity of places to purchase film I purchased a couple of M8's to achieve the same degree of Rangefinder simplicity. I've found it makes me little difference which genre I use, I take it right out of the camera. I have the film reduced to a CD so I can store all my stuff on the same laptop and print or see the pictures but absolutely do no post processing other than straight printing with maybe a little cropping. Don't know what more an old man could ask. But there is NO conflict between digital or film me at all, the question - if there is one - does not arise.

 

[Pioneer]

If it weren't for digital...

If it weren't for digital...

I absolutely love working with film, though I have no conflict with digital at all.
Film certainly is not as convenient.
And the feedback is slower.
But the cameras are certainly more interesting.
Though exposed film sometimes stacks high on my desk.
And months pass where I only add to the pile.
Eventually enough spare time accumulates.
To allow D-76 and the Epson to whittle it down

But if it weren't for digital I know that I would have given up film long ago.
Thanks to scanning I can now digitize what is developed.
My darkroom is no longer dark.
Though I still try, I have not yet mastered enlarging.
Ansel I most certainly am not.
Nevertheless, with the help of Photoshop and Canon,
my prints are now coming closer and closer to matching my vision.

Happy Holidays