Eight years ago I spent a month here in Umbria and used 5 rolls of film. This year I will be here for three months, so far —in six weeks— I have made over 5,000 digital exposures, probably more than I have done in my previous 50 years of photography. I have files of all the film I have taken, should I have the same approach to digital?
I need to do some editing. Remove the obvious mistakes, the failed experiments, most of the time I bracket —for framing if not for exposure— best of three if that. So that leaves maybe 1,000 frames. Even allowing that local and documentary interest there are probably no more than 100 photographs of any value. Perhaps there are two dozen worthy of a photo essay, One or two real pictures, I don't know. I need to put the camera aside and look at results so far.
Today I was looking at the photos I took eight years ago: Film, Canon EOS1, scanned: I realise how poor the definition and colour is compared to the X100. I am unlikely to go back to film, I need to learn a new way of managing the abundance of digital.
