Votrepear wrote:
Any film shooters out there? If so what do you shoot with? I shoot mainly medium and large format B&W.
Used to be a film user. In high school/college, I used:
Several amateur box cameras and two Polaroids (as a kid)
Canon FX
Nikkormat FTn
Nikon FTn
Yashica Mat 124G
In my school portrait/yearbook company employment as a multi-image AV producer and creative services photographer, I used:
Nikon FM
Nikon F3 (2)
Bronica SQA
Camerz Classic (long roll portrait camera with 35mm, 46mm, and 70mm full frame magazines, plus the corresponding parallax cams, periscopes, and appropriate portrait lenses)
Camerz ZII (long roll portrait camera with Split-70mm magazine, zoom lens, and periscope)
Canon A1
Bronica ETRSi
Fujifilm 6x17
Calumet 4x5
Most of that was 1979-1988. From 1988 to 2000, I held a series of systems management roles and marketing product development roles in our school portrait lab. I got an inside look at the photo industry, and quite an eye-opening education.
From 2000 to 2005, I worked in our film/digital school portrait lab, running the digital production departments (film scanning, color correction, CD-ROM burning (for yearbook staffs and school admin systems), school "service item" printing (ID Cards, dated stick-on file prints, and many more), plus portrait package printing, wide format inkjet printing, class composite prep and printing...). When we got that working smoothly, I moved on to field training of digital photography (and field operations training and sales training).
I switched to digital in 2003. After that, film had little appeal.
I had learned enough about digital imaging from working through the film-to-digital lab transition to comfortably put my film gear away. It's all in a glass case, as conversation pieces. These days, my only contact with film is to digitize negatives from my youth.