Jeanhdl

OK, not to start any trouble or anything, but all I can think of is:
How did you all feel when the change happened from film to digital??
Honestly I was in college then for film and we all hated it. Took all of my classmates quite a while to even consider digital, an art form!!!! I had to re-think it as a separate art form... Then I was OK. We just need to understand art covers a lot of ground and each IS different than the other....... But all is worthy.....
Let's just enjoy the ride............. and look at each others art and appreciate it for what it is!

les_stockton Loc: Eastern Oklahoma

It's just another medium. I was fine with it. In fact, I would've immediately switched so that I could get more timely results from my shots, but there was the expense to get the higher quality. So I stuck with film up until 3 or 4 years ago.

JimH Loc: Western South Jersey, USA

McLuhan said the medium is the message but he was wrong when it came to film vs digital. It opened photography to a wider audience. Did authors have a hissy fit when we switched from lambskin to paper? Or pens to typewriters? Or typewriters to PC word processing? Saying "film is better than digital", just because of the medium, is horsehockey. That's like saying 'Hamlet' wouldn't have been 'Hamlet' if old Billy S. had written it in Word.

gizzy.whicker Loc: Cumberland Co., Illinois

Sorry... I'm WAY too young to remember film cameras. I looked it up on Wikipedia, but I still don't understand how it works... something to do with putting a roll of some kind of plastic stuff in the back of the camera, where the LED screen is supposed to be, and then after 36 shots you had to take the roll of plastic out and send it off somewhere to have pictures make out of it. I mean... Holy Cow, you'd have to ask someone like Gessman if he remembers film cameras.

Jeanhdl

EXCUSE ME, what is this sending off crap??? I had the pressure of then processing it! :-) It does sound kinda crazy, doesn't it! And I am not THAT old!!!! :-)

RiverNan Loc: Eastern Pa

My first SLR was a gift. It was a Vivitar Kit with multiple lenses and flash. I loved it. I was very excited to get a Canon Eos with auto focus lenses. Quite frankly when digital came out, I was a little annoyed at first. It seemed like just something else to upgrade for big bucks. I held out a long time. Finally, I purchased a fancy Olympus point and shoot with 8x optical zoom. It was small and convenient and light weight and fit easily in a large purse. I have recently upgraded to a 26x zoom...still Olympus and I love it. The older I get the more I like light weight and convenient and my Olympus has both.

gizzy.whicker Loc: Cumberland Co., Illinois

LOL... You've got a good string going here. This is fun.

Jeanhdl

Well, Mr. Gizzy, you are right, this could be a really fun thread! But I am still young, well, kinda, almost, well, feel young anyway! I am not sure I will EVER grow up! Thanks for sharing in this idea of mine!

Tricktech Loc: Wisconsin

I have to agree in that one of the hurdles for me was the expense of digital initially. I knew long before digital became mainstream that it was inevitable. The technology just wasn't here to start, but when the likes of Nikon and others began finally producing pro quality gear, it opened a lot of doors, but then these rigs were also the cost of a nice car! It's really only been since the development of sub-c dslrs that rivaled the capability of film for under $1,000 that the digital doors opened for me.

Let's face it, with the advances in digital post production available, it's only the "film purist" that clings to the idea that film is still superior. There aren't many delivery methods for mainstream photography that require film, in fact they are predominantly digital so the need for conversion is all but inevitable anyway.

I guess the biggest point I can argue here is this: the quality and ability of modern equipment is such that the "new" techniques and effects a purely digital medium allows have only served to expand the art form to new heights. I don't consider it a new art form or even a different one... It's an art form taken to the next level... So long as my pocketbook can keep up!

robertperry Loc: Sacramento, Ca.

I didn't think digital was going to explode in the professional side of photography like it did. I was eager to learn digital, however, the learning curve has been a difficult and frustrating process. Years later, I still don't even have email figured out. Good thing my computer doesn't understand the words that come out of my mouth :)))

James123 Loc: Texas right now

I was quick to embrace digital, though still lament I have two hindered roles of Velvia in the icebox! Started out a Nikoncool Pix 9050 (I really liked that camera!), then Minolta DiMage 7X, Konica Dimage A2, and finally retired my film SLRs and started shooting with the Sony digital SLRs. My only regret is that I wasn’t using digital sooner, and of course that was because it wasn’t as good in the late 90s early 2000 time period. Things sure changed fast!

gizzy.whicker Loc: Cumberland Co., Illinois

Actually, robertperry, there are some pretty good voice recognition software packages out there, so you might want to be careful what you say too close to your computer. The other day when I said a few unkind words to my digital wizard here it spit out a CD disk at missile speed, narrowly missing one of my vital parts. I could well have been singing soprano come Sunday choir had my reflexes been a micro-second slower.

steve40 Loc: Asheville/Canton, NC, USA

I started taking pictures, when Kodachrome was still ASA (iso) 10. For those who don't know! it was 1950. My first camera, was a vintage 1938 Kodak Brownie six-16 folding bellows camera. It was called a pocket camera :) that was if your pocket was large enough to hold a brick, and two ham sandwiches.
Over the years I had many, in fact too many cameras to mention. SLR's, Rangefinders, Poloroids, and snapshot box cameras. All some type of roll film.

I never considered digital, until film began to get too high for me to justify using it. My first digital camera was in 2002, and was a Fuji A-101 a 1 mp camera with a fixed 35mm lens. My last 35mm was an Olympus OM-2, a real nice little jewel. Its gone now but still remembered, and not forgotten.

For me digital, will never replace film in my heart and memory. You can teach old dogs new tricks, but they never forget the old ones or let them die.

Jeanhdl

:-)

Jeanhdl

I think I love you........... I still have boxes and boxes of negatives..... Is that a bad thing?????