noimmunity
scratch my niche
Learning to soup my own negs has increased the percentage of film.
I'd shoot even more digital if there were a better-than-the-M8 digital platform available ($$$) to me for my M lenses.
I'd shoot even more digital if there were a better-than-the-M8 digital platform available ($$$) to me for my M lenses.
Chris101
summicronia
I would have answered 100% film six months ago, but now I find myself embroiled in a project that requires 100% (or so it seems at the moment) digital. Oh well, six months from now who knows, I might be painting.
jan normandale
Film is the other way
toyota, Just curious... what "high quality and precise camera systems" are you using?
CSG123
Established
Since about 2003-4 I've been shooting strictly digital. Then, a few weeks ago, I just had a notion to shoot b&w again. Digital conversions are good but not the same. Having a variety of film SLRs and a Kodak Retina IIIc and Minolta 7SII I decided to consider shooting some film again. It's been 30 years since I was in a darkroom but decided to sign up for a couple classes at the local community college where they have nice scanners and a good darkroom.
Haven't actually shot anything yet with the old stuff but I did get four rolls of 24 exp. Fuji 200 color film at Walmart for $6.50 and am thinking of getting some 400 too. It's dirt cheap compared to many of the online places and it's all fresh stock.
However, my real interest is shooting film b&w not color. While I think digital excels at color it doesn't excel at b&w. Still, shooting color film again might be kinda fun too.
All this is really an excuse for me to buy a Leica M3/2/4.
Haven't actually shot anything yet with the old stuff but I did get four rolls of 24 exp. Fuji 200 color film at Walmart for $6.50 and am thinking of getting some 400 too. It's dirt cheap compared to many of the online places and it's all fresh stock.
However, my real interest is shooting film b&w not color. While I think digital excels at color it doesn't excel at b&w. Still, shooting color film again might be kinda fun too.
All this is really an excuse for me to buy a Leica M3/2/4.
jan normandale
Film is the other way
Jan,
35mm: 2x Contax G2 systems with 16mm to 90mm, Nikon F4s 2x with 15mm to 600mm (only prime lenses), Fuji GW 690 III with 3.5/90mm and GSW 690 III with 5.6/65mm, Plaubel 69W ProShift Superwide with Schneider Super-Angulon 5.6/47mm, Arca Swiss F line monorail with Rodenstock lenses from 45mm to 240mm.
All lenses with either zero (Zeiss, Fuji, Schneider, Rodenstock) or only marginal distortion (Nikon), no or marginal (compared to digital) chromatic aberration.
And yes, I am prepared to deliver technical data for the resolution of film - even for 35mm - compared to digital
That's a pretty nice line up. We both have some overlap. I've a Contax but it's the G1 with the 28,35,45,90 ; Fuji BL G690 with 65, 100 180; LF Toyo A 65 - 210.
I'm purely amateur though I recall you shoot pro. Do you have any client issues shooting film and time taken for processing vs competition using digital workflows?
Mudman
Well-known
I'm mostly digital for work, film for fun. I work for newspapers, and film is too slow for the job du jour unfortunately.
sepiareverb
genius and moron
I voted based on my personal work- more film than digital there. Work work is all digital.
Turtle
Mentor
Hasn't film done well! I am quite surprised by the poll, but suspect lots of oppressed film users voted whereas all-digital-ninjas might have been less inclined to bother - you know, being full members of the new order.
Although I curse the darkroom when things dont go well, I still cannot get over the magic of hitting the lights and seeing a beautiful, gleaming print in the tray. Printing digital feels like waiting for passport booth photos to emerge
I use digital for happy snaps and to copy silver prints for the internet/digital usage.
I have been shooting a long-term project over several years on film and it has been seriously hard work, but I still get all tingly when I see the finished results. I will be thinking hard about digital cameras for serious use over th next few months tho.
Although I curse the darkroom when things dont go well, I still cannot get over the magic of hitting the lights and seeing a beautiful, gleaming print in the tray. Printing digital feels like waiting for passport booth photos to emerge
I use digital for happy snaps and to copy silver prints for the internet/digital usage.
I have been shooting a long-term project over several years on film and it has been seriously hard work, but I still get all tingly when I see the finished results. I will be thinking hard about digital cameras for serious use over th next few months tho.
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meanstreetshooter
Established
Film...
Film...
Still old school. No real desire to change.
Film...
Still old school. No real desire to change.
kshapero
South Florida Man
90% film, 8% Iphone4, 2% other digital.
Lss
Well-known
Mostly digital rangefinders, then film cameras, then DSLRs, then digital p&s (~20 pictures a year), then cell phone cameras (~10 pictures a year).
I think I should add a film SLR and see if I will use it more than the DSLRs. Or perhaps LF and see if I think I can afford to use it more than the cell phones.
I think I should add a film SLR and see if I will use it more than the DSLRs. Or perhaps LF and see if I think I can afford to use it more than the cell phones.
Dave Wilkinson
Mentor
As digital has-and is-improving in leaps and bounds, and film is in its 'death throws', it became an easy ( if in some ways regretable ) decision!
gb hill
Mentor
100% film because I have so much cash tied up in film & cameras I can't afford to go digital!
Bike Tourist
Well-known
For me the war is over and digital won. The lower costs and greater convenience of digital blossomed just in time for my retirement.
dave lackey
Mentor
I don't get it...why is it always "one or the other"? Why not both?
gnuyork
Well-known
I voted mostly film, some digital. But even a few years ago it was the opposite.
pvdhaar
Peter
Gravitating back toward film again.. There's something about the pictures that I can't seem to get with a digital camera. It's not that film is superior, it's got its flaws, but I just like it better for people pictures. Maybe it's because it reminds me of shooting with a clunker SLR in the seventies..
mathomas
Well-known
Lately, if I do a "photo walkabout", that is, for "art", I use film (Fuji 690 or M2). If I'm shooting around friends/family, it's generally digital (M8 / DLUX4 / etc).
But I have to admit over the last 10+ years, it's been mostly digital.
But I have to admit over the last 10+ years, it's been mostly digital.
Ti29er
Member
The question may well have been:
Of those earning a living from photography, does anyone shoot film, and if so, what % and what is the subject matter. <2% at a guess
Most working photograhers have left film in the gutter. I don't know any who still have film cameras even (some landscape photographers not withstanding). This is a niche market, even more so RF film cameras.
Film is for personal projects only; clients aren't interested in waiting a week to see results!
Of those earning a living from photography, does anyone shoot film, and if so, what % and what is the subject matter. <2% at a guess
Most working photograhers have left film in the gutter. I don't know any who still have film cameras even (some landscape photographers not withstanding). This is a niche market, even more so RF film cameras.
Film is for personal projects only; clients aren't interested in waiting a week to see results!
dave lackey
Mentor
A week? What kind of lab takes a week? My mom and pop shop only takes an hour!
Takes me that long to batch process all the digital images I shoot and I hate computer work, I would much rather be making images.