NEW Film vs Digital Forum

Look, here's how it plays out for me: I can still buy most of my favorite film types, and can still get them processed competently and quickly, without going through major gyrations. I already have the cameras I desire to load said film into, and photograph to my heart's (or occasional client's) content. When I feel like it, (or absolutely feel compelled to), I pick up a digital camera and "do" photographic stuff with it. But I prefer film by a country parsec. Got it? No barroom brawls, no snarky, backhanded Internets bon-mots, it's all rock n' roll.

(Who just stuck his tongue out???)


- Barrett
 
I earn my living with a camera. Work output is almost all digital. The photos I take for myself are 95% on film.
 
A problem with having a specific forum for film and digital users to duke it out, is that most of the unpleasant stuff happens when someone of the opposite camp bombs a thread started by someone using (and touting) a particular medium.

These don't turn into FvDs until the second or third page.

By the way, I see everyone is playing nice there right now. I wonder how long that will last?
 
Shrug. I had a bit of cash to spend on myself the other day. I made Ilford stock owners happy.
 
We should call it 'The Bull Pen!'

I hope the carpet's easy to clean ... and stain proof! :p
 
Good idea. But I agree with Chris, the Dig vs Film quarrels often don't start as such, but a benign thread suddenly turns into one. Sometimes they are fun and lighthearted, though not always.

Personally I don't want to go on about which is best. For one thing I don't have the best of equipment in either camp, which makes things difficult to make fair 1:1 comparisons, and secondly I don't really care. I like digital for its ease of use, and film for its sedating effect on me.
 
But ... I've noticed the new film v digital forum doesn't take a place on the home page ... much like the 'off topic' forum!

What a subtle way to sanitise volatile subject material ... keep it out of sight.

Congratulations!
 
The 'Evil' posts do appear on the main page unlike 'off topic' and the new 'digital verses film' forum but what the Evil forum doesn't have is a link in the shortcut menu on the left of the main page and I believe it's time it did.

The 'FSU' forum has a link there but it's not exactly active these days, not like it was ... in fact if you open the main page of the FSU forum there are are a total of 1475 posts being shown ... do the same for the 'Evil' forum and you'll see there are 3270 posts.

Yes ... I just counted! :p
 
SimonSawSunlight said:
maybe call it "THE PIT" or "THE CAGE"? :)
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How about "The Den of Ultimate Pointlessness"? Film v. digital is right up there with Mac v. Windows for sheer waste of time and braincells.

The best one can say for it, is that it'll act as an intellectual flypaper to catch those with too many opinions and too few manners.
 
ruby.monkey said:
How about "The Den of Ultimate Pointlessness"? Film v. digital is right up there with Mac v. Windows for sheer waste of time and braincells.

The best one can say for it, is that it'll act as an intellectual flypaper to catch those with too many opinions and too few manners.
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But I scan film into my mac, so I must be cool, right?


Sorry, not true as I don't have a mac. But then I don't have a functional PC either at the moment. Irritating things.
 
So that's the area where we can do what they do in Fight Club?

(I suddenly felt the urge to watch Fight Club:))
 
Keith said:
We should call it 'The Bull Pen!'

I hope the carpet's easy to clean ... and stain proof! :p
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I think most of us, who have seen the two sides of this "crazy" argument, at odds with each other, will just check in now and then to see how the battle is going.

p.
 
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Keith said:
The 'Evil' posts do appear on the main page unlike 'off topic' and the new 'digital verses film' forum but what the Evil forum doesn't have is a link in the shortcut menu on the left of the main page and I believe it's time it did.

The 'FSU' forum has a link there but it's not exactly active these days, not like it was ... in fact if you open the main page of the FSU forum there are are a total of 1475 posts being shown ... do the same for the 'Evil' forum and you'll see there are 3270 posts.

Yes ... I just counted! :p
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It had to be set up like that, apparently, George Mitchell was too busy to come onboard as a mentor ... he took the easy job in the middle-east, perhaps when he's solved that one .....



:D
 
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