Would you give up film if?

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What kind of digital camera would it take, including cost for you to give up film for good? Or would you even consider going digital? Me I don't think could ever completely just stop using it....
 
Affordable full frame DRF with D700-like sensor.
Affordable DMF.

I don't see the second one happening (soon), so let's say I'll drop 135 at a drop of a hat, but will stick to 120 film.
 
cosmonaut said:
What kind of digital camera would it take, including cost for you to give up film for good? Or would you even consider going digital? Me I don't think could ever completely just stop using it....
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For a lot of us, this question makes no sense. Would I give up riding a Harley Davidson if I could just Star Trek myself to my destination? It is the RIDE, not the destination.;)
 
What a great question ... really had me searching my database for a minute and I think you've touched on a point that has definitely had me deliberating of late.

I don't think I would give up film by choice but I also don't dismiss the prospect of this happening at some stage ... and the process of even considering such a scenario has been driven by the two current digital cameras I own, the D700 and the X100!

My M8, when I had it, never came close to making me feel this way!
 
A digital camera with the same pleasure of use as film, with proper manual focus, aperture dials etc. Obviously there is the M9, but for whatever reason it just does not appeal, even at $1000, I wouldn't buy one, can't explain why.

At present I have no desire to shoot digital, for me they it's like Scotch whisky and Bourbon whiskey, similar in so many ways, but it's possible to like one but not the other.

I think for me to ditch film, it would take some kind of film based disaster, like if I shot 20 rolls on holiday and the lab ruined them all, I think that could do it.

Obviously digital has disasters too, but so much easier to backup in the hotel room each night, so you can only ever really lose a day's worth.
 
Would love to try an M9. Very happy with the Pentax K5 (and good Pentax lenses). But why should I give up film and the excellent film cameras I enjoy using?:confused: Film and digital co-exist very happily in my photographic universe!
 
I would give up film if digital got to a point where both the process of photographing and the end result would be indistinguishable from what I get with film.
 
I already shoot both. I have very good digital cameras and I am more than happy with their output, but I enjoy using film cameras - the process. The only thing that might stop me using film would be if the cost became ridiculously high and then I might just go out and use my film cameras without film in them - every shot would be a keeper, but I wouln't need to develop or print.:D
 
Leica M9 / Fuji X100 that's all it took... However, if the M9 goes in for repair, I will use a film M with slide film in the meantime. I'm not sentimental when it comes to film at all. Used it for many years when it was the only real option and now have no issue with digital whatsoever.
 
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I work physically with negatives and a darkroom (like a painter with canvas and a brush), so no improvements of digital would make me give it up.
But I wouldn't mind having a nice digital compact to go alongside me, it's improvement would simply come down to its aesthetic of the output. I'm not a big fan of what digital images look like at the moment, though the ricoh grd in b&w isn't half bad.
 
Digital sensors simply don't capture light with the characteristics of film, so the answer is none.
I quite happily use digital cameras (currently an M8 and a D90) alongside film, but film has a totally different aesthetic which simply can't be replaced by a binary algorithm of interpolated Bayer grid pixels.
 
Originally Posted by dave lackey View Post
For a lot of us, this question makes no sense. Would I give up riding a Harley Davidson if I could just Star Trek myself to my destination? It is the RIDE, not the destination.
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Koni Kowa said:
I love this argument. :D
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Yes teriffic argument and reflects perfectly what this forum is generally about ... gear!

The image itself being secondary. :)
 
For me to completely give up film, a digital camera would need to
- be lighter than 200grams,
- be entirely battery independent,
- have a 6x6 imaging area,
- and cost less than $35 (although I'll accept a $6.50 SD card as additional purchase..)

There, that's it.. not likely to ever happen that a digital will replace my Holga.
 
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The image is certainly not secondary for me, Keith. I like my tools but I would throw them all away for one good pic. But you're right about the forum : most of the threads are talking gear and only gear.
 
pvdhaar said:
For me to completely give up film, a digital camera would need to
- be lighter than 200grams,
- be entirely battery independent,
- have a 6x6 imaging area,
- and cost less than $35 (although I'll accept a $6.50 SD card as additional purchase..)

There, that's it.. not likely to ever happen that a digital will replace my Holga.
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LOL ... that was brilliant! :D
 
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