It's hard to shoot film

[ChrisPlatt]

Never underestimate the power of the latent image! 😉

Chris

 

[Larry Cloetta]

With film, the color balance is never wrong.

 

[kiemchacsu]

I wish there was a "film only" photography forum, and "film vs digital" threads were outlawed. There would be a lot fewer threads and posts and pictures to sort through, weeding out the digital images and digital gear discussions. Yes, I know it would be a less colorful forum.

used to be: APUG.ORG (Analog Photography Users Group)
and now photrio.com
I sometimes visit their B&W forum for updates of Film photographic in general. That forum is quite active https://www.photrio.com/forum/forums/b-w-film-paper-chemistry.85/

 

[kbb]

...can digital photography be practiced with the same shooting simplicity and attention to the subject as film photography.[?]...

Yeah. I don't see why anyone can't set ISO, shutter speed, aperture and then take pictures all day. I do it every single time I shoot, always with a modern DSLR or a Fuji X. It helps that I manually focus only and that I shoot only raw files. If I need exposure compensation, I do it with my brain and hand directly turning the controls.

 

[CharlesDAMorgan]

With film, the color balance is never wrong.

With one exception - daylight vs tungsten balanced film.

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

I wish there was a "film only" photography forum, and "film vs digital" threads were outlawed. There would be a lot fewer threads and posts and pictures to sort through, weeding out the digital images and digital gear discussions. Yes, I know it would be a less colorful forum.

Dave, I feel your anger, or maybe it's just frustration. I feel your strong dislike for all things digital! Just the word "digital" leaves a vomit-puke-poop like taste in my mouth too!

However, the way I see it, one should not worry too much about what one can not control.

These are just the rambling thoughts of a retiree with a camera and some free time on his hands.

All the best,
Mike

P.S. I actually like film and digital equally. Sorry!

 

[Lughmatic]

Same here -- I shoot B&W film because I want to print the negatives in the darkroom -- I spend 40+ hours a week "playing" with some of the finest computers out there, and therefore do not want to spend more time in front of a monitor.

Exactly the same reason here. I'm plugged all day to different consoles, IDE's etc... there's always some LED/LCD in front of me, I've to type or click to do everything.


Doing something with my hands, getting an image framed from start to the end, openning a canister, getting wet in the lab.... without any digital involvement is as magical as therapeutic for me.

 

[Larry Cloetta]

With one exception - daylight vs tungsten balanced film.

I know, my comment was a joke, of sorts. Ektar is going to look like Ektar and 400H is going to look like 400H and never the twain shall meet, but you always know exactly what “color balance” you are going to get with a given roll, no need to make the model hold a grey card for the first shot, and no time spent in post processing necessary to “get it right.”
I shoot film and digital, but color is one area where film is a bit easier than digital because what you get is what you get, and you know what you are going to get when you pop the roll in the body. No temptation (or at least less) to spend the afternoon moving sliders around. (Even this can be argued, I suppose.)

 

[Skiff]

Exactly the same reason here. I'm plugged all day to different consoles, IDE's etc... there's always some LED/LCD in front of me, I've to type or click to do everything.

Doing something with my hands, getting an image framed from start to the end, openning a canister, getting wet in the lab.... without any digital involvement is as magical as therapeutic for me.

+1.
My job is already too much dominated by computers and monitors.
In my rare free time I don't want to be a "digital slave", too.
I don't want that the world-dominating digital companies control my entire life.
Using film means freedom and independency from all that. And much more fun for me 🙂.

 

[davidnewtonguitars]

I have no anger at all, I don't know how you read that. I am just a film camera only photographer, and a simple one at that, and the hybrid nature of RFF is only a slight bother.

Dave, I feel your anger, or maybe it's just frustration. I feel your strong dislike for all things digital! Just the word "digital" leaves a vomit-puke-poop like taste in my mouth too!
All the best,
Mike
P.S. I actually like film and digital equally. Sorry!

 

[zuiko85]

No harder than it ever was, not really, and no less rewarding. People seem to be more easily than ever put off by small inconveniences. But, if film is tooooooo haaaaaarrrrd, there’s always a digital camera. And if even that is too taxing, there’s a phone. If even pulling that out, waving it around at your cat, and pressing the button is too much, there’s always staying in bed and moaning about the difficulties of what all.
Film, it’s fun. Just do it.

Thank you Larry! And I think you hit the nail on the head.

 

[ptpdprinter]

It is not hard to shoot film. It is not hard to process film. It is not hard to scan film. If you want to shoot film, just do it.

 

[Highway 61]

It is not hard to shoot film. It is not hard to process film. It is not hard to scan film. If you want to shoot film, just do it.

I am back from ten wonderful days spent in Italy (where I use to go on a regular basis every year and several times a year if possible) in October.
I have just developed the 4x 120 and 12x 135-36 films shot during this recent journey.
Now I am at sorting them out and scanning. Some photos may benefit from wet printing on FB paper during the forecoming winter.
Nothing "hard" so far.

What you said.

 

[Erik van Straten]

It is not hard to shoot film. What is nice, is that you can make gelatine/silver split grade prints from negatives on film. As far as I know, split grade is not available digital.

Leica III black/nickel, Summar nickel, 400-2TMY, split grade printed on Adox MCC 110.

Erik.

 

[Kai-san]

I wish there was a "film only" photography forum, and "film vs digital" threads were outlawed. There would be a lot fewer threads and posts and pictures to sort through, weeding out the digital images and digital gear discussions. Yes, I know it would be a less colorful forum.

Check out Filmwasters.com.

 

[Nokton48]

I wish there was a "film only" photography forum, and "film vs digital" threads were outlawed. There would be a lot fewer threads and posts and pictures to sort through, weeding out the digital images and digital gear discussions. Yes, I know it would be a less colorful forum.

www.apug.org Analog Photographers User Group Now called Phototrio

 

[seany65]

I used to find it hard to shoot film. Partly because it cost a bit more than I could afford at the time, but mostly because I didn't have the nerve to think I could produce any decent images.

I've now come to accept that I probably won't produce anything I actually think is "good", but I'm more able to take the plunge and actually send the film off anyway and hope that I've done a couple of "passable" ones.

 

[helen.HH]

It’s harder to shoot digital
If You don’t nail exposure your doomed ... blown Hilights are a constant dilemma
Film is so forgiving , longer latitude, so easy to shoot

 

[CMur12]

I'm a longtime user of slide film, so I don't find film forgiving. I don't find it especially difficult, either.


Slide film is probably the film that behaves most similarly to digital, but film cameras are way less complex and there is no post-processing involved, unless one scans and does digital prints of slides.


- Murray

 

[Huss]

Mr. Bill Pierce, is that it? An opening and closing statement in one?

😉