It's 2014, are you still using film?

[kshapero]

We have been down this road before, but the times they are a changing. Has the onslaught of cool digital cameras find you shooting film less and less or maybe not at all? For me I have entered the digital age but still shoot mainly film. What about you?

 

[SolaresLarrave]

So far, since the begining of this year, I haven't pushed the shutter release button on any of my two (gasp!) digital cameras (a Nikon D700 and a Fuji X100).

Wait... I take that back. I did take some twenty-plus shots in February, with my D700. But that's about it.

 

[thegman]

Not using digital for anything, well except my tablet for taking photos for eBay etc.

I just can't seem to extract the same sort of enjoyment from digital, as I can with film. Plus with film I can experiment with different things more easily an inexpensively. I can try out 4x5 (and have) pretty cheap, same cannot be said for digital medium format.

 

[kknox]

Color film is becoming more of a hassle for me. The cost of processing & the price of film. Been shooting almost all my color in digital, B&W on film.

 

[Takkun]

What Knox said.
Took some time off photography to do some editing and work on a huge project, but I'm back shooting probably 2-3 rolls a week on an architectural documentary project. Just picked up another 100' roll of Tmax!

My 'cool new digital camera?' An M8, since this is the year I travel more, and I'll concede that film isn't as flexible as I want on the road (or, rather, in the air).

 

[Michael I.]

all film, all the time

 

[Armando Salazar]

only film

only film

I work in b&w and color motion picture film (developed in c41)

A Salazar

 

[raindog61]

2014: the year I promised myself I would only photograph with film. Bought another Leica body, repaired my Widelux and purchased a Jobo CPP2 film processor.

Bottom line: I felt I was losing all of my acquired knowledge and craft as an art form.

_Harry.

 

[Mackinaw]

Sure I still use film (and digital). Why wouldn't I?

Jim B.

 

[colyn]

I couldn't vote since 90% is not an option but most of my color and B&W is film. As far as digital I've done more with the iPhone camera than with my DSLR and G-1 for the last several months..

 

[nikku]

Still shoot lots of film, and more transparency film than ever. I am still learning what films work best for my uses. Tri-X is my primary bw film, and for color I shoot Portra and Velvia (50 and 100). Unfortunately E6 prices have increased dramatically this year, which means I may start limiting my E6 shooting to 120.

 

[Bingley]

What a silly question. Of course.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Family pictures on film and digitally. It is easier to get dozen of keepers on digital for family album.
Reportage for public display, macro, wildlife and film gear for sale is quick and easy for me with DSLRs as well. Color is something special on film, but most of color photography I do is taken digitally.

But.
Here is no cool digital cameras for me. Some of them are nice tools to hold in hands.
Would check new ones and ... no emotions.
On opposite side, still remember how I hold slightly trashed M4-P for first time in used cameras department at the Downtown Camera store in Toronto.

To me film is for pleasure. Film RF even more pleasure. 75% and even often I have film camera only with me. Film is even more pleasure after picture is taken. It is only to bring it on the paper in the darkroom. Sure it is still film after scan, but wet print is the only true image if taken on film. Also making it computers free is liberating.

It is also pleasure to use exactly the same camera and lens I was using thirty years ago. Again, exactly the same camera and lens. Same one. The same...
I'm in different country, different continent, different life, different language and same camera in 2014 as in 1984. Because it is using film and it is RF.

 

[van_d]

My digital gear has been collecting dust for a year and a half now. Although I was hoping to get a decent digital compact to ease film costs, I find it hard to justify $1,300 for an X100S (the most likely candidate) when a used M6 can be had for a few hundred more. I've also taken a greater effort to look at digitally shot street photography and I still find it very hard to get on board with the more sterile look, especially for B&W. Colour, it seems, has an easier time replicating film, so I may end up just using a hypothetical future digital camera for colour only and leave B&W to the classics.

 

[FrozenInTime]

Less than 5% film these days - digital is just too accessible and my darkroom skills have faded too much with lack of practice.

 

[K14]

Yes...until they pry my barnack from my rigamortis hands.

 

[Pioneer]

I use my M9 and Pentax Q from time to time (my daughter's recent wedding is an example) but I am at least 75% film. Most of that has gone through my Barnacks so far this year.

 

[Noll]

You betcha. C-41, Slide, B&W 35mm & 120 - It's all still good.

I started on digital and didn't start using film till about 2009. Since then I find digital cameras less and less appealing (Though, for scanning B&W film, I find that a decent digital and macro lens are an invaluable tool).

 

[bfffer]

film-leica and digital-phone for me.

 

[kxl]

Color film is becoming more of a hassle for me. The cost of processing & the price of film. Been shooting almost all my color in digital, B&W on film.

Same here, and for the past few months it's been 75% color, 25% B&W