Do you Shoot Film or Digital?

Do you Shoot Film or Digital?

  • All Film

    Votes: 190 19.8%

  • Mostly Film, Some Digital

    Votes: 358 37.3%

  • All Digital

    Votes: 55 5.7%

  • Mostly Digital, Some Film

    Votes: 357 37.2%
  • Total voters
    960
I voted mostly film some digital. To the guys who say stupid things like 'the war is over-digital won' I say grow up. There is no war just personal preference.

Lots of professionals have gone digital for speed and ease of use.
About eight years ago I went 100% digital and then realised that the pressure on both time and the client constantly wanting to shave margins was meaning I was working more hours for less money.
I'm back using film for the main and now people actually seek me out because I shoot film, and I can charge a premium for that.
Now I prefer to earn more and pick my jobs, I'll leave the £250 for a wedding and DVD to the hoards–I'm not interested in that market.
 
Last year it was 99% digital (Nikon D700). Now that I have a 44-inch fine art printer, I'm 100% film. Digital just doesn't stand up when you're printing 44-inch x 60-inch prints.
 
I rarely shoot digital nowadays. And when I do, most of the time it's with my iPhone. The feel of film just suits me way better.
 
Spanik said:
For photo's I want to enjoy film, photo's for the net or a documentation (model building, taking stuff apart) digital.
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This is similar to my experience.

I document at work with a digital but for personal photo's, I use a mix of digital and film. It varies all the time with differing amounts of one or the other depending what I'm doing. Right now I am much more into film since I recently purchased some nice film equipment. That could change at any time.

I would really like to begin a long term project but have not decided yet what it will be.
 
I shoot both. I just bought a NEX-7 but this weekend I bought a used Contax T2, and did I ever have fun with it shooting in the streets of Seattle Sunday.
When we went on our vacation in Europe last spring I brought along both a digital camera and a film camera. I used up all my memory card space and used up my battery, -that ended my digital camera shooting. It seemed like every tourist convenience shop had lots of film, both Kodak and Fujifilm and I didn't have to worry about batteries. My advise, if your going to take a vacation and use digital, you had better take a film camera for back up.;);)
 
All it's likely to prove is that we tend to have a "preference" one way or the other. As of today (19/09) only 30% are either one or the other. Personally, I have never understood the need to nail my colours 100% to just one mast as there's a lot of fun to be had shooting both mediums. My preference (not that it's important) is film.

My concern is that, as with vinyl records, we will reach a tipping point where newbies won't have a clue what film is, what it's benefits and drawbacks are and, therefore, they'll have no reason to try it and see if they like it.
 
Lately I'm about equal on both in terms of number of exposures.

With film cameras, once the film is developed, the rest of the rendering process is all digital.
 
I got myself a used Alpha 900 a while ago. I have maybe used it 5 times now because I always grab a film camera instead. I bought the digital for studio and portraiture and for family events. There where not many lately so that may be the reason…anyhow, even my new Minolta Rangefinder excites me more and I cannot wait to shoot it :)
 
My M8 is a year old, My M9 is is 30 days. The M9 is fabulous, the M8 almost fabulous , but I just could not get along with it until I got the Whi Bal card and set up some custom settings. Don`t like the crop factor either. But the images are superb.
 
I prefer film...

I prefer film...

I started with a digital camera (Nikon D90), but I sold it with the lens for a Leica M6... Now, I shot 90% film (Leica Mp and summilux 50 LA) and 10% with a leica x1 (great camera!)
 
Just got rid of my OM-D and seriously considered a M8.2, but worried about reliability problems. Got a X-E1 now and very happy with it. Just got a Leica M6 TTL yesterday. Couldn't pass up the deal as I've been really wanting to try film again and process at home. I have a rental CV 50mm f/1.1 on the way for a 5 days. I plan on shooting 2 rolls of B&W T-Max 100 and 2 rolls of Portra 160. Can't wait.
 
Most of us perfomr the tasks in digital way because it has become almost the requirement of the work other wise i personally still miss and like films.
 
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