Is digital boring to you?

oh, I like both. nothing wrong with that. I think the pure film people get very defensive these days. It's a great time for both!
 
film for me is way of spending time, have a hobby. if I must get photo from travel or occasion, its always digital because of convenience and avoid of risk of loosing the situation (bad exposure with manual cameras, mess up the devel or scan etc..).
 
The thing I don't like about digital is a necessity of digital image manipulations and all sorts of
programs like Photoshop. I'm computer programmer by profession, and I don't like to spend extra hours behind the monitor to prepare photos for printing. Digital cameras are "computers with lenses". There is too much computers in my life, so I enjoy simple and pure mechanical cameras, and analog photo process, as an escape from digital civilization overkill.

From shooting perspective, there isn't much difference between digital and film camera. You hit the same shutter button. You can switch your DSLR to full manual mode, and don't use back LCD screen, and it will be pretty much the same as film SLR, with exclusion of crappy focusing screen.
 
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i wouldnt call it boring. i just dont see digital photos as photos. when i see something that i really like i just cant shoot it with digital - if i do that it is same to me as i didnt shoot it at all. i dont know how to explain - but i have empty feeling when i shoot digital. my friend have a dslr - so i have a chance to shoot whenever i am with him , but i really rarely do it. and if i do it i just take some snapshots. with film i always have fun...
 
With the right kind of software and a little knowledge, one can produce stunning results with a correctly exposed raw digital file, in just a few minutes. Much, much faster than my darkroom days.
 
At only 2^16 -1 shades and seeminly infinite permutations, digital can be fun. And definitely not boring when the hard drive crashes.
 
leicasniper said:
"i just dont see digital photos as photos. when i see something that i really like i just cant shoot it with digital - if i do that it is same to me as i didnt shoot it at all."

That's kind of sad, I think. So when film either goes away or gets too expensive to shoot, you will give up photography? Is it the process or the image that is important to you? This isn't a flame. There are many people who enjoy the process more than the ultimate image. But what happens when the process goes away?
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You'll see the same thing when another technology supplements digital imaging. Something like images seen through glasses and transferable by bluetooth and appearing in other people's glasses.
Many people will say "digital was best" and then a person will say, as you said:

"That's kind of sad, I think. So when digital either goes away or gets too expensive to shoot, you will give up photography? Is it the process or the image that is important to you? This isn't a flame. There are many people who enjoy the process more than the ultimate image. But what happens when the process goes away?"

You see?

Basically, the problem is more in the lines of "you don't miss what you never knew".
 
velvia is hard to beat with all possible digital tricks. I think the disadvantage (maybe advantage) of digital medium that you have process every picture and you have to know exactly what colors you looking at and have right contrast (often much higher than we believe or dare adjust for digital files). To increase saturation is a must if we want harm film.

for B&W, really no contest. very really.........much possible DR for future digital is not even enough. it is something with silver emulsion :D like in nature all looks chaotic

funny that digital flatness, linear curve force us to be computer wizards lol

it is not enough if you point and shoot with digital .. buy most expensive monitors to computers and sit 10 hours with computer at nights:)
 
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Digital boring... wouldn't that hurt your fingers? I like my analog drill :D
 
i dont know what i will do when film is gone. i think i will maybe use digital - but i also know it wont be fun like with film. i simply like mechanical type of things, i love old factory machines more than computerized factories. i like clocks without batteries, LPs more than CDs... to put it simply - i love mechanics(maybe because i understand it), and i dont like electrics(i dont know anything about it-and too stupid to learn how electric things work).
 
I've had a lot of digital cameras, but I don't own one right now. I'd like to get an M8, but it isn't in my price range. My last camera was the D200. I got a lot of good images from it. I shoot mostly B&W, and I always here film is better for B&W because of the tonality? Is that true?
 
I use both... But, I dont know, I think film is better. I had a dSLR, used for about four months and then I sold it. Now I have a Ricoh GX100, I love the results in BW that I get from it, but I guess I will sell it soon. Since I prefer rangefinders and Leica, I guess the perfect digital for me is a M8 or a RD1. But it is too expensive for me.

But I guess the thing I dislike the most in digital is not how the image "looks"... I really dont like the LCD screen. I dont want and I dont need to see the shot in the moment that I shoot. But the screen is there. And it is a temptation. And I ALWAYS see the shots.
 
digital can produce great results but I find the process less interesting. I prefer film prints for mono, but digi can be great in colour. Overall I like the fidelity of film and the fact that you concentrate on the next image not the last one captured.
 
I just can say that when I shoot digital, there's always something missing on the results. It is difficult to say what.. (seems too plastic, like junk food ehe)
 
Hello, my first camera ever was a MINOX GT-E...(back in 1989) great camera, always with me! Few years ago (2004) I've purchased a digital nikon p&s (Coolpix 7600 with ED lens), but then... after one year and +1700 digital shots, I went back to the fantastic GT-E and unused Contax gear (I like quality portable cameras). Two months ago, the professional film service I was using in Milan, near home, stopped film development... So I've managed to find a new film service, even better than the previous one. But the real problem is cost!!!
Now that I have a child, $ is important... but until now, I've managed not thinking about it because of film results with excellent Contax/Zeiss that always gave me emotions never matched in digital. Plus, in the last years, I've started using Kodak BW400CN (c41), great film. Last week, while buying dvd for my son in an electronic super store, I've have found an out of production new Ricoh GRD (1)... I must say that just shooting .jpg without any manipulation (maybe just "enhance" in iPhoto) and with Ricoh's excellent fixed lens (a 28mm equiv) I'm really happy with the results.
I will continue using my film gear, but I must say that with the image quality of the GRD, I've started loving the digital world...
To answer you question, I you have the opportunity to have image quality, digital is not boring at all!!!
Cheers.
Womby

first GRD shoots:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/womby68/2483429442/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/womby68/2483444576/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/womby68/2483448022/
 
Digital boring? Yes, sure it is. With digital you're always rattling off too many shots because it's so cheap, and what you get is never the 'peak of the action'..

Film boring? Yes, sure it is. With film you're always economising on those 36 on a roll, and you're shooting too few when it counts, and what you get is never the 'peak of the action'...

(mmm.. I'm getting a deja vue.., what was the question again?)..
 
Leica realised digital photography was boring ... that's why they bought out the M8 and introduced a whole new set of emotions into the process!

1) will it turn on? (anticipation)

2) now that it's on ... will it freeze? (anxiety)

3) damn ... is that black sweater synthetic I wonder? (confusion)

That's before you take the photo ... then afterwards!

4) is that a line of dead pixels I see there? (paranoia)

5) oh sh*t ... I knew I should have taken an IR filter! (disappointment)

Nothing boring about taking pics with an M8! :p
 
There are no worthy digital rangefinder cameras. The Epson is just a digi CV and the M8, well it takes pictures that are nice, well very nice, but it not the same same as holding a M or Barnack.

If you think too many images are a problem with digi, be more selective when you push the trigger. Then there is Lightroom and synchronise in CS3 ACR + actions and batch automation to handle all the excess. Even with film, it needs to be scanned or contact printed just to edit it properly.


I have some Delta 100 that needs using. I did a figure skating show of my grandaughter last Sunday. I did the machine gun with auto-focus thing. No manual focus camera would have ever worked.
 
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