Loving mechanical cameras and manual lenses. Love the results (Ilford black and white for me).
When I brought three rolls in for developing to the local lab today there was another photographer unloading maybe thirty (!) rolls of 35mm and a bunch of larger format films.
Seeing this, I dont worry about the future of film.
But no photograph is produced... that would be more for camera lovers!
Charlie Lemay
Well-known
Thanks for posting my website Timor,
I didn't post it here because just clicking on my name lets you choose to go to my web site. If you google my name, it comes up first as well.
Charlie
I didn't post it here because just clicking on my name lets you choose to go to my web site. If you google my name, it comes up first as well.
Charlie
valdas
Veteran
Why do I shoot film?
I love the process of using old cameras;
I love processing film;
And most important aspect - I love the output from film better than digital. Maybe one day I will fall in love with digital, but not yet. I keep on looking at test pictures from M8, M9, now x100, xp1 etc. etc. that you guys post here - it just does not look the way I like (unless a lot of post processing is done to simulate a film). Not yet.
I love the process of using old cameras;
I love processing film;
And most important aspect - I love the output from film better than digital. Maybe one day I will fall in love with digital, but not yet. I keep on looking at test pictures from M8, M9, now x100, xp1 etc. etc. that you guys post here - it just does not look the way I like (unless a lot of post processing is done to simulate a film). Not yet.
timor
Well-known
That, how I found it. Now I am looking at your instructions. Looks like great stuff worth trying.
FrankS
Registered User
Peter_S
Peter_S
A)
- I love the look of FP4+, Delta 100 as well as Kodak Elite Chrome (I know, need to stock up).
- Film is so smoooth....
B) Easier to handle. Yes!
I come home from a trip, develop my negatives (4 roll-tank), and scan with Epson 4990 & Silverfast LE. FP4+/HP5+ profiles work fine (b/w) for me now. Scan, apply profile, adjust curves slightly, then a few adjustments in LR3. Takes me less time on average than fixing up an M8 or DP2s file in LR3 and Silver Efex.
Photos I need to have published/printed large I sent to a high-quality scan service (Hasselblad X1) where a pro knows what I want. They are essentially ready-to-print when I get them back.
C) Gear....
- my favourite focal length is 50mm and my favourite lens is the 50mm Sonnar C. I cannot handle the crop of the M8 or X-Pro 1, and cannot afford an M9.
- I shoot in a lot in cold mountain ranges. My M6 and Contax T3 simply work.
- The lens characteristics and rendering of the Sonnar on the Contax T3 loaded with slide film or Delta 100 have not been surpassed by any digital. So I stick with it when I need a very compact performer for double-page spreads.
- I can afford to shoot medium format with it. Rolleiflex...yummie.
- I love the look of FP4+, Delta 100 as well as Kodak Elite Chrome (I know, need to stock up).
- Film is so smoooth....
B) Easier to handle. Yes!
I come home from a trip, develop my negatives (4 roll-tank), and scan with Epson 4990 & Silverfast LE. FP4+/HP5+ profiles work fine (b/w) for me now. Scan, apply profile, adjust curves slightly, then a few adjustments in LR3. Takes me less time on average than fixing up an M8 or DP2s file in LR3 and Silver Efex.
Photos I need to have published/printed large I sent to a high-quality scan service (Hasselblad X1) where a pro knows what I want. They are essentially ready-to-print when I get them back.
C) Gear....
- my favourite focal length is 50mm and my favourite lens is the 50mm Sonnar C. I cannot handle the crop of the M8 or X-Pro 1, and cannot afford an M9.
- I shoot in a lot in cold mountain ranges. My M6 and Contax T3 simply work.
- The lens characteristics and rendering of the Sonnar on the Contax T3 loaded with slide film or Delta 100 have not been surpassed by any digital. So I stick with it when I need a very compact performer for double-page spreads.
- I can afford to shoot medium format with it. Rolleiflex...yummie.
filmfan
Well-known
I use film because it is light sensitive and can record an image that I can turn into a photograph.
newsgrunt
Well-known
yuuup, uh huh.
ColSebastianMoran
( IRL Richard Karash )
As did I. And many others. I think it will be fun. That's reason enough.
Jubb Jubb
Well-known
But the more I keep hitting my head against the wall, the better it feels when I stop.True, I'm a bit touchy...but I am secure. That has nothing to do with this matter though. To me, photography is photography... great work has been made in all mediums and formats and that has not changed with digital. This notion that digital is fake photography is just so silly that you keep roping me in. Next time, I'll just realize it's you posting again and ignore it.
Well, film kinda is the "real" thing. You can touch it, hold it, hold your neg/slide up to the light.. try doing that with your memory card.
Whenever I shoot film, I always feel more involved in the photography process than what i do when shooting digital.
timor
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I never said that digital is a fake photography, I said it is not a photography, it is something else, a digital capture which similarity to photography ends with the shutter. Behind that exists totally different, algorithm driven virtual world of information. I know, there are hybrid technologies, where you can print "digital negative" and then in the darkroom a real, baryta photograph could be made. But for that digital camera is not needed, any computer generated graphic file will do. Digital camera is just the quickest way to acquire the initial image. This is never less wonderful technology with great potential and is good, that we have it. I just don't use it for my hobby.
When comes to "roping" you are doing it yourself, initially in this thread I agreed with you, I don't think that "digital=dull", very much the opposite.
newsgrunt
Well-known
I'm very curious to know why you don't consider it photography ? I know the words people use but I fail to understand the reasoning.
and to add further confusion, there's a thread about Thomas Dworzak using an X100. Does this mean he and Alex Majoli for example, aren't making photographs ? If not, what are they making ?
FrankS
Registered User
Aw com'on, let's not go there again.
newsgrunt
Well-known
I'm being sincere Frank, I simply can't understand the rationale. As long as this view is being put forth, I want to understand it. I think this is germane to the thread but I understand your concern as to which path this can go.
TXForester
Well-known
You have a mirrored ball hanging from the living room ceiling, don't ya?
FrankS
Registered User
It is merely semantics. Photography to some people means traditional film. For those people, digital capture is not real (traditional) photography. (and it is a different process to acheive an image) It's just how they choose to define the words. No biggie. No need to get twisted up.
Dirk
Privatier
For the same reasons as Zuiko85. I couldn't have said it better. In addition, I like the look of film. Digital looks clinical to me.