Mix of film and digital (2010 update)

Mix of film and digital (2010 update)

  • 100% film

    Votes: 100 29.2%

  • 75% film and 25% digital

    Votes: 89 25.9%

  • 50%:50% film and digital

    Votes: 55 16.0%

  • 25% film and 75% digital

    Votes: 77 22.4%

  • 100% digital

    Votes: 22 6.4%
  • Total voters
    343
  • Poll closed .
id have to say im 95% film, 5 % digital. i hadn't shot digital in 6 plus months till a photo class i am taking this semester.
 
In the last six months 100% film although I have shot some digital over the past year. I like mono and, to me, digital mono just doesn't look nice and anyway I like grain even when it's invisible.
 
I've been a 100% "Shooter of Film" since 1976...
I don't count when others have asked me to photograph them with their digital cameras or my cell phone camera of which I have taken (maybe) 10 shots...
If there comes a day when I have to go Digital I'll go there but until that happens...Film...
 
Dang dupe! I hear the siren call of digital occasionally, but I'm much happier with the physicality of film. Considering a darkroom now.
 
I use digital:

1.) mostly when I get behind scanning
2.) or when want to make a one-off shot and for the shot need ISO flexibility

That makes me about 50%-50%.

JP
 
Well, getting into RF's in the 10 months or so has meant I've shot a dozen or so rolls of 35mm, of which 2 B&W and the rest colour. First film I've shot since I got my 300D in October 2004.

I reckon in the same time frame I must have taken about 4000 shots on various digital cameras (300D, 400D, G10, SX1-IS, R-D1 and in the last 60 hours, M8)

I'll keep my Vito CLR as a beautiful piece of engineering, and my Bessa R at least until I've used up the HP5 in the fridge, but I don't think I really want to go back there. A Bessa III would tempt me, if I found one on my doorstep, but otherwise my heart beat is 01 01 01 01 01 etc

Guess I'm way untypical hereabouts!
 
In a perfect world, it would be 100% film for me, but right now it's 75% digital 25% film. Why? --

1) Film requires too much time and/or money. (I am very busy, and film processing is pricey here in NYC.)
2) With the Panasonic GH-1 with the 20mm f1.7, the results are quite pleasing: finally, a digital I can live with.
 
100% film here. Recently sold my digital stuff after getting into medium format film. After medium format, crop-sensor digital just couldn't meet my expectations.
 
I'm not sure that I'd be shooting any digital at all if I wasn't getting a little money to do so ocasionally! It's a bit of a 'catch 22' situation really ... I don't really fully embrace digital but I do like being paid to take photographs.
 
So far, the breakdown is remarkably similar to the same survey done back in 2007/08. It seems that this community hasn't changed much despite a number of exciting development in the digital photography's front in the last 12 months, most notably the mirrorless single interchangeable lens camera...e.g. G1, E-P1, etc. whatever it's being called now.

So far, it also seems that we are still biased towards film, with nearly 75% of respondents shooting at least 50:50 or more film.

Then again, it may have some inherent selection bias, since film shooters maybe a bit more motivated to respond 🙂 Being a film shooter myself got me interested in proposing this update survey in the first place!
 
back alley said:
actually, it seems the majority shoot at least some digital...
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The thing is how many of those sixty people who claim they only shoot film have a little point and shoot digicam that they use for what they probably regard as 'not taking real photos?'

Ads, ebay etc!

Whatever the purists say about camera phones they take 'real' photographs that are more than a match for the results from those little film disposables we all used to buy for holidays and special events etc!
 
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