'Kodak Survey Shows that Professional Photographers Remain Ardent Users of Film'

[bacchus96]

Well, there are quite a few B&W film slowly disappearing from the market but there are also new ones entereing the marktet. eg. CMS20 35mm - no digital camera can compete with that film. it has 500 to 800 lines -no grain at all and very sharp. (depending on develpoment and exposure) -- Another film would be the Gigabit Film which is i admit difficult to handle.

 

[Eric T]

The film business is rapidly shrinking and will soon only be a specialist industry. It may exist in the future - after all you can still buy a horse if you really want to ride one. But motorized transit is here to stay as are digital images. Digital has improved greatly in recent years and will continue to improve. There are too many advantages not too shoot digital. I will continue to shoot film occasionally but it only makes up less than 1% of my shots in any given month.
Eric

 

[Trius]

The film business is rapidly shrinking and will soon only be a specialist industry. It may exist in the future - after all you can still buy a horse if you really want to ride one. But motorized transit is here to stay as are digital images. Digital has improved greatly in recent years and will continue to improve. There are too many advantages not too shoot digital. I will continue to shoot film occasionally but it only makes up less than 1% of my shots in any given month.
Eric

Anounced yesterday: http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=2709&pq-locale=en_US&gpcid=0900688a807d5fe1

 

[d_ross]

that pretty much sums it up for now wouldn't you say ?

 

[40oz]

The digital business will soon only be a specialist industry. It may exist in the future - after all you can still buy an electric car if you really want one. But internal combustion transit is here to stay as are film images. Film has improved greatly in recent years and will continue to improve. There are too many advantages not too shoot film. I will continue to shoot digital occasionally but it only makes up less than 1% of my shots in any given year.

-Brent

🙂

 

[Trius]

Brent: Brilliant.

 

[jbf]

I will never shoot film for anything serious again unless there is a new means of archival safety. Something such as virtual indestructible and non degradable materials (at least relatively speaking... anything will degrade in a thousands years or so im sure at least to some degree).


All of this is coming from a 21 year old who until a year ago had only shot seriously in digital for his entire life.

 

[d_ross]

well exposed processed films have shown they last a very long time jbf. only time will tell if your digital files of today will be at all useable in a hundred years or even less.

The advantges of film should be obvious to anybody who has used both, as would the advantages of digital.

 

[d_ross]

photographers who shoot film will always work a subject well beyond the point they know they have "a shot" they will explore variations not even attempted when shooting digitally, because they never know when they have "the shot" and this will always result in a better image at the end of the day!

 

[d_ross]

I guess it all depends how broadly you look at photography.

 

[d_ross]

for example, I print photographs up to two meters square, I could never achieve this (with any quality) using digital capture.

 

[pachuco]

For me what matters is the image, not if it was film or digital. I will shoot film because I like it, like the look, like the feel. I have an assignment this weekend that I would love to shoot with tri-x but the client wants digital so that is what they will get and I will put the same effort into that assignment as I would if I was shooting with film. It is just a different tool available to photographers, no better, no worse. Just different 🙂

 

[d_ross]

but will you decide to finish shooting before or after looking to see what youve got 🙂

 

[d_ross]

but I agree, its all about the look thankfully the two dont look the same, and that is what I was referring to saying it should be obvious.

Why don't you shoot some Tri-X anyway on that assingment and show your client why you would like to, maybe then oneday youll get an assignmet they want you to shoot on tri-X

 

[pachuco]

but I agree, its all about the look thankfully the two dont look the same, and that is what I was referring to saying it should be obvious.

Why don't you shoot some Tri-X anyway on that assingment and show your client why you would like to, maybe then oneday youll get an assignmet they want you to shoot on tri-X

Shhhh....... don't tell them but I was planning on doing that 😉

 

[d_ross]

ahh the joy of moving slowly 🙂

 

[d_ross]

why does predominantly bad news have to travel so fast 🙂

 

[pachuco]

🙂

Well, I'm a PJ. I shoot an assignment, dump the CF card to my laptop and ftp the images over a cell modem to the office. The images are on the page in a layout program within 15 minutes. They would probably notice the delay with the Tri-X 😱

That is why I am shooting it digital as per the request. I will shoot tri-x as a side note. By the way, not all PJ's need to get images sent so quickly but you should know that since you are a PJ 😛

 

[mrtoml]

🙂

Well, I'm a PJ. I shoot an assignment, dump the CF card to my laptop and ftp the images over a cell modem to the office. The images are on the page in a layout program within 15 minutes. They would probably notice the delay with the Tri-X 😱

This is a valid and perfectly justifiable reason to shoot digital. Is anyone arguing otherwise?

One of my projects on the other hand is to document my daughter's life from birth until she reaches adulthood. The only medium that I know will definitely allow me to print the shots over a period of 18 years is film. I already have digital files from a few years ago that I cannot open or read and hence cannot print. So even if I am careful with my digital archiving it is still a big risk.

Barring a natural disaster I will still have the negatives in 12 years time and be able to realise my dream project. I doubt whether all the hassle and inconvenience of digital would help me to achieve this.

Yes digital has advantages, but it also has big disadvantages depending on your perspective and the type of work that you do.

 

[shadowfox]

The film business is rapidly shrinking and will soon only be a specialist industry. It may exist in the future - after all you can still buy a horse if you really want to ride one. But motorized transit is here to stay as are digital images. Digital has improved greatly in recent years and will continue to improve. There are too many advantages not too shoot digital. I will continue to shoot film occasionally but it only makes up less than 1% of my shots in any given month.
Eric

Sooo, does that mean you're going to sell your nice collection of film cameras? after all, what's 1% of your shooting going to need other than just one film camera? 😀