Where do you stand?

Where do you stand?

  • 80-100% digital

    Votes: 142 18.0%

  • 80-100% film

    Votes: 281 35.6%

  • both film and digital

    Votes: 286 36.2%

  • hybred: film with digital printing

    Votes: 80 10.1%
  • Total voters
    789
I honestly cannot think of a good reason to use a digital camera, except when the end goal is to post a photo on the internet.
 
tunalegs said:
I honestly cannot think of a good reason to use a digital camera, except when the end goal is to post a photo on the internet.
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Or illustrations for magazine articles/books. Yesterday I shot 5 pics for a magazine. Before digital I'd have had to load slide film; shoot; process; mount; wait 'til the post office opened again; mail originals (heavily insured)...

Cheers,

R.
 
Digital cameras are nothing more ,or less, than a tool and there will always the 'right' tool for any given job. I shoot digital for commercial work and film for my own, I've shot for many years with film in commercial situations and digital is certainly faster and convenient but for the pictures I want to look at for a while then for me it has to be film.
 
My professional work is now all digital and has been for some years. I shoot advertising/commercial work specializing in health care. Have been working in this field for 22 years now. Most of my work is used for ads, billboards, annual reports, some surgical procedures, etc. Still love film especially med and large format. I have been shooting all digital for my personal work now to for several years. I downsize my living arrangements some years back and no longer have the 500C/Ms or the darkroom and yes I do miss it at times.

The cameras I use are all just tools. A way for me to get my vision to a final stage.
 
I take my digital when I go to work. I take my film when I take my kids and want to have extra love in their photos.... Film rules my heart!
 
johnnygulliver said:
mostly M8 for convenience, speed and quality, MP and film for quality too and colour (digital doesn't do reds) plus Nikon Coolscan 9000 and fun. I do like the M8 though, I have to say.
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I have a Hasselblad 6x6 and a X-pan 11 and a M6 and ....a M8 for two years. I Love My M8. Clean and fast results . Now -a-days I am archiving all my negatives and Love all my past works in the shoe boxes. I have recently bought a new lenses for Blad 6X6 and hoping to do more Negative shooting.:)
 
Roger Hicks said:
Or illustrations for magazine articles/books. Yesterday I shot 5 pics for a magazine. Before digital I'd have had to load slide film; shoot; process; mount; wait 'til the post office opened again; mail originals (heavily insured)...

Cheers,

R.
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And heavily be depressed when film was stolen or badly treated or destroyed. I will reactivate my jobo rotating machine. mainly for 70mm work or special film/developping or comfort b+w-rotations at normal temperatures.
At the end of this year history of optical quality in FF must be rewritten anyhow when zeiss will offer their HQ-lenses. we can already begin saving 3000 euros.. They will have MF-quality. Zeiss-in an interview in a german photo-magazine said they were forced not to offer best possible quality.
on the other hand:Ilford will offer delta 100 and hp5 plus on Unperforated 70mm film
 
I use both digital & film but I also use film and then scan. Already with my vote where I cannot vote for both options is inaccurate:)
 
Red Robin said:
Chris, Film is my favored format. That said , I have yet to set up my own darkroom, and yes someone at CVS does at times, leave a print on my print! Ugh.:bang:
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Don't think for a minute that having your own darkroom will mean the end of film mistakes. I'm mishandled more film in my own space than I think I've ever entrusted to the labs. I have touched, mal-exposed and down right stepped on many good negatives. But sometimes that's the best part:
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100% film here.

I just never found digital cameras and photography very interesting.

I enjoy the simplicity and reliability of film photography - and the process.
 
tunalegs said:
I honestly cannot think of a good reason to use a digital camera, except when the end goal is to post a photo on the internet.
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Except for speed, quality, cost, consistency and if you want to make any money as a photographer (fine art photography etc maybe).
I'm all for shooting film but you are 100% wrong, and unless you are wet printing and not scanning- which is a whole other issue in the digital v film debate.
I find shooting film fun but only because I know longer have to do it to make a living.
 
I started off with digital, but have now moved 100% film as I simply like the look it gives much more, as I always felt digital was too 'cold' looking. I also feel that I don't rush shots because either way I have to wait and develop them and I know each frame costs money.
 
Film for me, Argus C3 (1957), Nikon 6006, Yashica GSN, made me (helped me) learn the basics of photography, f stops, speed, ASA, etc.
Digital starts out almost like a Brownie, (I also had one of those along with a Dick Tracy Detective camera when I was a kid) just point and shoot.
Now I like to mess around in manual to see what i get with my new GRD IV. So, its like learning photography again if you stay away from that auto thing.
I like both, and once in a while I'll load some B&W film just to pretend like I know what I'm doing. That's my fantasy.
 
Digital or Film for street photography

Digital or Film for street photography

Steet photography seems to be a favorite for Rangefinder Forum folks. So today I had a couple of free hours and thought I would try some street. I live only 15 minutes from Fremont St. in Las Vegas, so that was my destination. I have several versions of most top cameras in sizes from Minox to 4x5, but for this I thought to take some light cameras. I selected Minolta CLE, Leica CL for film with rolls of Fujifilm 400. For digital I decided on the Nex-7 with assorted lenses. However when I got to the location, I realized that the film cameras would be a pain to use. Rangefinder focusing with moving people and crappy exposure metering slows everything down by 10X. And of course with film, the number of exposures is limited. So right there I decided to take only the Nex and try it out. I uploaded samples of the exposures I got. These will blow up to Costco's 8.95 20X30 size with no problem and processing was complete within an hour of returning home. I just don't see how I could have gotten any of the shots I just posted using 35mm film. You may see them in my gallery. http://www.rangefinderforum.com/rffgallery/usersummary.php?uid=32545
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I recently sold my FF digital gear and now use an M4 for 35mm and Mamiya 7 for MF. A Rolleiflex is currently getting repaired as well. I use film mostly because it's more fun to use and developing my own film helps me get more involved in the photographic process. I prefer the look of film as well. Might get another digital camera someday, but as of now I'd rather put that money towards good lenses.
 
I had about $8,000 in Nikon digital cameras and lenses about a year ago. I sold them all and bought a AGFA 5x7, Mamiya RZ67, Argus C3 and a Eastar TLR.

Couldn't be happier. My number of keepers have skyrocketed, and my photos have a feel and look I could never achieve with digital. I'm slowing down to the point where I can shoot an entire "shoot" one one sheet of film.

Since then I've acquired a Speed Graphic, a few folders and a Nikon F4. Thinking of selling my RZ and getting a Leica something in film.

I will NEVER go back to digital
 
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