It's 2014, are you still using film?

It's 2014, are you still using film?

  • Yes 100%

    Votes: 198 35.6%

  • Yes 75%

    Votes: 116 20.9%

  • Half and half

    Votes: 112 20.1%

  • Only about 25%

    Votes: 90 16.2%

  • All digital baby!

    Votes: 40 7.2%
  • Total voters
    556
  • Poll closed .
I haven't shot a single frame of film this year. That may change, but in 2013 my film use was 75%. Then I got my first DSLR late in the year, and my film use plummeted. Expense and inconvenience of film are major reasons.
 
90% film here...but with a full time job, two young kids and doctorate studies, time is a bit short for everything photography.
 
kknox said:
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.
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I am finding that colour film is only getting easier. In the my favourite labs would process and send negs and scans back on CD, I was happy with that.

Now I'm in Australia my favourite lab puts the scans into Dropbox, so I get them so much faster.

Cost seems roughly static in my experience, but then I buy my film mail order, if I bought from my nearest stockist, it would cost twice as much.
 
An occasional pack of Impossible film in my Polaroid.
A very occasional roll of 120 in the Hassels.
An even more occasional roll of 35mm film in one of the other film cameras.

I've made 4200 photographs with E-M1 and A7 so far this year.
And likely 45 with film cameras.

I like using both. But the magic is in the photographs, not whether I work with film or digital. Each has its specific charm.

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As I sit here typing this response my Minolta Multi Pro is chugging away scanning 24 rolls of 120 Acros and I'm loving every moment of it.

Yea, I still shoot film but it's digital for colour.
 
It seems that my film cameras spend a lot of times on the shelf. I can't say that I shoot as much as 25% film. A friend and I are organizing a group to shoot film. There are about 8 or 9 that interested in doing this. I am not sure what to use - F2 or R3A. Maybe both.
 
What counts is film, not still, but again; I loaded the first b&w films after 10 years of color film & digital family photography.

Since I still shoot family in digital, I ticked 75% film. 75% is not the number of frames but the relevance ;)
 
I was thinking going 100% to film, but then I learned to tweak my leica M8 images to look like film: 650 iso-2/3 stop underexposure, max contrast, max sharpening. Now the "grain" looks like the Double X Eastman 5222 I am using with acufine. So when shooting with leicas (M3 hybrid, M6, M8) it is most of the subjects 50%/50% Film / Digital. I am scanning my film with hasselblad Flextight high end scanner so the film looks great also. The middle format (Hasselblad V series and XPan) is all film. I sold the CFV digital back, didn`t like the way images looked. Too much fiddling with Photoshop. I have about 6 rolls of 500ft 70mm Aerocon II B&W film in the fridge.. hard pressed to use that up, before I am too old and weak to carry the Hassy`s
 
I did the jump. Finally. After so much time.

I freezer is full of bulk film, scanner sitting on my desk, cupboard full of chemistry.
All color btw, no bw.

Got tired of the Frontier color rendering and the Noritsu scratching my film.
Future looks bright now.
Got about 120 rolls of film and chemistry.
 
Debating with myself over wether I should sell my last decent 35mm camera, a Contax RX with planar 1.4 to fund some fuji X lenses. I'm travelling nearly non stop all year and film is not really practical to develop, though I will be doing the odd bit of medium format.

I'm in HK right now and I'm pretty blown away by how cheap film and processing is here - 120 Porta 400 is about 3.50 USD a roll from one of the sellers at Sim City in Mong Kok.
 
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