What happens when I get angry.

[Stephanie Brim]

He's right, though.

This place is for both and it should stay as such. I love talking to people here. I just cracked. 😉 I do that occasionally.

So yeah. This is why you don't try to convert me to digital and I won't try to convert a digital user to film. Different strokes for different folks. Do what works for you.

 

[Flyfisher Tom]

Stephanie,

I understand your feelings.

Just keep in mind that online forums have the ability to make you either more vitriolic and angry, or make you even more unflappable and resistant to irrelevancies. Make it the latter, and you will become an instant Buddha 🙂

cheers

 

[jaapv]

Glad to see by your signature you decided not to sell the Canon, Stephanie.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

The Canon will never get sold. Given, perhaps, at some point when I have an M2 and a 35 Nokton, but not really sold.

 

[varjag]

Well, i think is not the same thing post process in photoshop and have high sensitivity sensors.

Correct, but nor there are any commercial films around with true speed above 1250 ISO. The process that Finder described is a digital version of pushing.

 

[Chuck A]

Alright Stephanie, Well said. I actually switched to digital and have come back to film for most of the reasons you posted. Another is that I find the vast majority of digital cameras to be a hinderance to the photographic process. Too many buttons and menus to think about and the viewfinders are horrendous. The only digital camera that I would even consider worthy is the R-D1 and its price is just too far out there for what you get. I have come back to manual rangefinders and love it.

 

[Socke]

Want to hear a funny storry?

A friend aproached me to shoot her fashion show, she's designing mostly shirts and some dresses.
Since my dSLR broke down recently, note to myself beer on the hotshoe isn't good for TTL electronics, I told her I would shoot with film and have to check lighting two days before and I want to be at the rehearsal so I can judge where I can get the best shots and that I have to see the choreography how the, non profesional, models walk over the stage so I can get my focus points sorted out.

The answer was "Oh, well, than I ask somebody else".

🙂

 

[Nachkebia]

Socke 😀 I guess she was right 😀 (Loughing realy hard)

 

[Stephanie Brim]

Wouldn't you really want to go in there and do that prep anyway? I know I would regardless.

 

[kbg32]

Do what works for you.

This is the truist thing you've said.

 

[c.poulton]

I think that we should just do our own thing, film or digital, and don't worry too much about what other people think or do themselves.

 

[Socke]

Socke 😀 I guess she was right 😀 (Loughing realy hard)

Jep, otherwise she'd get pictures like those 😛

 

[Pherdinand]

🙂)Socke, the first one is a real gem! Fashion show, eh?🙂)

 

[Rayt]

I know where you're at but the recent London terror scare and no checked baggage rule really got me thinking about switching. I live in a place where you pretty much need to fly to go anywhere. Go digital and the terrorists win.

 

[SteveM(PA)]

That new Duran Duran song "Girls on SmartMedia Card" just isn't very catchy. 😛

 

[rogue_designer]

Well thought out Stephanie - I have, and shoot both. But often get told when I bring a film camera to a shoot buy some rent-an-assistant that I should switch. Gets frustrating trying to get across the "choose the right tool for the job" message, and I usually have to revert to preference (which, I suppose, if I were honest, is what it boils down to most times for me anyway). 😀

Feels good to get it all written down, no?

 

[SolaresLarrave]

A while ago someone asked me the same question, arguing that "digital is the best film."

I laughed.

However, there are very serious people shooting digital these days. They don't go around converting anyone. Those who do and spark lines like yours do not really deserve your attention. Like you, I shoot digital just because, but I am contemplating the use of a digital camera sometime in the future...

If I still want to.

BTW, I'm not a deity either.

 

[Stephanie Brim]

This is mostly aimed as a rant that some people can relate to about other digital users constantly questioning use of film, not necessarily the digital users that don't do that. 😉

I'm well aware that my stance is sometimes extreme and, in some cases, it may seem wrong. But it's my stance and I stick by it. If you can't stick by what you say, don't say it.

It interests me that I've only had one anonymous comment so far, though. I like the fact that everyone else is sticking their name by what they say as well.

 

[Socke]

Stepahnie, I'm under the impression that those who will not use any digital camera are on the defense.

I don't care if anybody never will use a digital camera, only thing I can say is they may miss something which is worth trying.

 

[mc_vancouver]

I was talking to my barber yesterday (12 bucks, which balances out the over 60 bucks my wife spends on her hair) about the troubles I had had lately with my IIIf, selling it, refunds, you may have read the stuff here for a few brief glorious inflammatory hours before it was removed, thankfully...anyway, my barber said, Why you no shoot digital? Why all this expense with old technology? Film is wasteful. You don't like picture, you have to throw in garbage. Me, I press button, is gone, like that (he snapped his fingers).
Yeah, I replied, but I'm used to film and I don't want to shoot three hundred shots, just thirty-six decent ones (if I'm very lucky).
He stopped cutting my hair and looked at me in the mirror. You can shoot only thirty six on digital, you know, he said.