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 .
50/50 of film & digital for me overall and 80% B&W when it is film versus color. although I have been doing some B&W in JPEG, high ISO on my only digital-x100 and I like the images, they only need minimal PP tweaks and they are good to go.
Strangely though my keeper rate is far higher in B&W film…. which would be a good poll on its own: which is a higher keeper % on B&W film versus digital…
thanx.
 
I have some very good film cameras I've been using for many years. Shooting with them has become second nature. I also have a digital point & shoot I think of as the present-day Kodak Instamatic. I just use it for snapshots. The 127-page instruction manual explains all its capabilities, but I'm too impatient to read it carefully.
I'm obviously a Luddite old fart.
 
Have had my Monochrom for 2 weeks and my plan is B&W in digital and slide film in my M6. Would expect 75/25% split digital/film. SO far loving the Monochrom so that makes B&W film a little more redundant to me currently.
 
In the late 1970s when I first got into film it was great walking into one of the five or six camera shops in Newcastle, the wall of film in varied and brightly coloured boxes, the choice was mind boggling. Today camera shops are sparse on the ground and the choice of film even sparser. I now mainly shoot ilford fp4 and hp5 and I hope film is arround for a few more years yet. Incidently, if anyone can recommend a processing lab based in the UK with a postal service I would be very greatfull
 
Using film more than I have ever done, despite me shooting instant film almost exclusively now and it being more expensive per shot.

Still shoot digital, but its mainly for social shooting and family stuff, though I'm sure I'll be using it more later in the year.
 
lxmike said:
In the late 1970s when I first got into film it was great walking into one of the five or six camera shops in Newcastle, the wall of film in varied and brightly coloured boxes, the choice was mind boggling. Today camera shops are sparse on the ground and the choice of film even sparser. I now mainly shoot ilford fp4 and hp5 and I hope film is arround for a few more years yet. Incidently, if anyone can recommend a processing lab based in the UK with a postal service I would be very greatfull
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Peak Imaging. They are great, have mailers and a fast turnaround.
Peak Imaging
 
Just developed and printed b&w 4x5 film first time...in the last 18 months. So this year I'm using 35mm, 120 and sheet film. Digital for ebay sales and ade memoirs.
 
Photo_Smith said:
Peak Imaging. They are great, have mailers and a fast turnaround.
Peak Imaging
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I'll second the above and add www.ag-photolab.co.uk (not as quick as peak but good and less expensive).

Regarding the poll, I haven't shot any film this year so far, but I just won a Yashicamat 124 G so I will be shooting a few rolls in the next week or two. I'm generally happier with the results I get from 120. Hard say what percentage film and digi as it tends to go in phases, but I will keep on using film.
 
lxmike said:
In the late 1970s when I first got into film it was great walking into one of the five or six camera shops in Newcastle, the wall of film in varied and brightly coloured boxes, the choice was mind boggling. Today camera shops are sparse on the ground and the choice of film even sparser. I now mainly shoot ilford fp4 and hp5 and I hope film is arround for a few more years yet. Incidently, if anyone can recommend a processing lab based in the UK with a postal service I would be very greatfull
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Ilford run a lab too, and can make lovely B&W prints. It's fairly expensive as far as processing and prints goes, but I did find the standard very high indeed.

http://www.ilfordlab.com/
 
It is great to see how many have chosen 100% film. I voted 75% because there were nothing between that and 100%
At the moment 90% would be closer to my use of cameras.
I have a great D800 with two of the 3 holy trinity lenses and some older primes but the whole process with digital just does not give me the pleasure i have with film. It's been film on and off for more than 40 years so it is difficult to leave that behind. I have come to the conclusion that as long as i can have film in the freezer and i guess that will be roughly 10 years after i last stocked up i will be using film as my primary image making process.
 
Except for product shots with a Nikon D700 (which is way too much of a heavy lump to use anywhere other than on a tripod in a makeshift studio) I'm 100% film. Use it or lose it !!!
 
I think I'm around 50 %. I never got into the nice process of developing and printing myself. This might be the reason because I also hate wasting time in digital post processing. Hence my series are ambivalent mixed with colour, b/w, digital and film.

My best shots don't depend from the media but from the spirit and the right mood I was that day. Being a hobby photographer I use whatever gear I like and can do the job. I don't need hundreds of machine gun images of the same scene just to select the few best in post. I'm used to a slow pace taking images and this is one more reason I actually don't care if I'm using a film or digital camera. It has just to feel good in that particular situation.

Be it 120, 135 or digital: What I like is the result and the nice feeling when I use well designed gear. Be it a sensor or a film stripe in...
 
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