Transition to digital ?

[david b]

100% film.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

I may be buying a digital for school...we'll see. Otherwise, I'm staying 100% film until I can't do it anymore. I love black and white, grain is SUPPOSED to be there, and fixer is a great pick-me-up in the morning. 😉

 

[sf]

How about AWAY from digital - for the third time.

 

[Andy K]

How about AWAY from digital - for the third time.

Good idea, how about a poll asking how many are moving up to film from digital?

 

[FreddyF]

Good idea, how about a poll asking how many are moving up to film from digital?

That will be me then. (Though I did photography at school so I'm not completely new to film.)

 

[sf]

I have pretty much cleaned myself of all the digital gear I had, at this point, and shall not return in the near or foreseeable future.

 

[tedwhite]

my kinda guy, shutterlfower. I've got 300 feet of b/w in the freezer, and just got a Bessa R mit 35/2.5 . Looking about for some Leica LTM lenses, like maybe a 50/2 Summicron. Question: are they the same lens combo as the M-mount 50/2 Summicron?

 

[Fitz]

I hate to say I shoot digital because I only use digital because of the convenience when I travel light, or when the shots don't warrant the use of film.

For example the digital camera works at wedding receptions, business trips over the ocean, and quick shots that must be emailed.

Film is always along with the digital camera.

Film is more fun and I can get a much better print. I do use a digital darkroom far more than the wet darkroom.

Digital camera 25% of the time;
Film camera 75% of the time;
Digital darkroom 80% of the time
Wet processing 20% (this may increase if I get a Jobo processor)

- Fitz

 

[sf]

only time i use a digital camera (I don't own one, but might borrow my mother's or friend's):

when I'm taking pictures of a film camera.

I only have one film camera . . well, three really, but two of them are currently on ice.

SO for the same reason that mirrors and back scratchers exist, so exists the digital camera. For the same reason that the backs of our heads look foreign to us, we have digital cameras.

Only we have far less reverence for the digicam than we do for the good old back scratcher. The one with all the milage of honest service. Or that nice magnified mirror. How else would we ever examine our post nasal drip?

 

[Socke]

Yesterday I had an experience which shows digital in a desireable light.

First the lab decided to give a {brown smelly matter} on my order and framed my slides and add 4x6 prints, that adds some 16 Euro to each film and thus I should pay 112 Euros insted of 2! Of cause I raised hell in the store until they took the prints back, I had to pay 35 Euro for framing which I didn't want and what makes batch scanning impossible.

When I scanned the first roll I saw not only dust but what I can only describe as debris on my slides. Blotches of dirt which you can feel on the surface and which seem to be burnt into the emulsion and can't be removed short of cutting them out.

In one word, I'm pissed!

 

[erikhaugsby]

Funny story:

I bought a EOS 20D a few months back and then happened upon a M2 a few weeks ago.
My 20D hasn't seen an exposed frame since.