Second childhood or going senile
Sep 26, 2021 19:19:09 #
I've owned just about every Canon digital camera ever made, but just never found any real pleasure in using them. It's not that they weren't great cameras. It was with each one I found less satisfaction in photography.
It was no longer me creating the image, but the camera doing all the work.
I've gone back to film. The not having instant gratification of knowing if I got the shot and having to wait till I processed the film and made a print has brought back the fun I had when I first started in photography sixty years ago with a Kodak Brown and Kodak Tri-chem packs processed in an old coal bin and printed in a print frame has returned, but now I have a dark room and enlarger that I've brought out of storage.
Photography is fun again. I guess it's a sign of senility - but who cares.
It was no longer me creating the image, but the camera doing all the work.
I've gone back to film. The not having instant gratification of knowing if I got the shot and having to wait till I processed the film and made a print has brought back the fun I had when I first started in photography sixty years ago with a Kodak Brown and Kodak Tri-chem packs processed in an old coal bin and printed in a print frame has returned, but now I have a dark room and enlarger that I've brought out of storage.
Photography is fun again. I guess it's a sign of senility - but who cares.
Sep 26, 2021 19:35:52 #
I spent 3 years on various deployments designing a dream darkroom. The Navy let me out, we bought a house and I build it. Plenty of long, slow hours in there. We could do B&W and color. I still have all the negatives.
That said, I don't miss it a bit. I'm thrilled with the Photoshop and collection of Lightrooms. I can shoot with a phone, a few fascinating digital cameras and even video!
I've scanned negatives where I still had prints from the darkroom. The inkjet prints from the scans are better than the darkroom prints.
So, since you asked, I think you are going senile.
That said, I don't miss it a bit. I'm thrilled with the Photoshop and collection of Lightrooms. I can shoot with a phone, a few fascinating digital cameras and even video!
I've scanned negatives where I still had prints from the darkroom. The inkjet prints from the scans are better than the darkroom prints.
So, since you asked, I think you are going senile.
Sep 26, 2021 19:46:58 #
You may already know this, but if you have Canon EF lenses from your digital days, an EOS-1n or v will let you shoot film with all your old EF lenses and AF to boot (something I find pretty much indispensable with these aging eyes). I have a darkroom that I’m not ready to give up either, and that was my solution.
Sep 26, 2021 19:51:04 #
Sep 26, 2021 19:52:02 #
obeone wrote:
I've owned just about every Canon digital camera e... (show quote)
If you not a pro, then why do it if it's not fun? I am glad you reconnected with the fun part! It's not senility to have fun with your hobby.
FYI - I have never stopped shooting film. I shoot a roll now and then with my F100. I took the F100 on a mini vacation last week used it exclusively for one of the days of the trip. ;)
Sep 26, 2021 20:05:24 #
Sep 26, 2021 20:12:17 #
obeone wrote:
I've owned just about every Canon digital camera e... (show quote)
Last time I looked, you can shoot digital cameras on full manual and create the image you want, just like with film.
Sep 26, 2021 20:20:53 #
JohnSwanda wrote:
Last time I looked, you can shoot digital cameras on full manual and create the image you want, just like with film.
Clearly, your idea of fun and his are different. And even if you shoot manual, and never chimp, it ain't film, and computer and printer aren't a darkroom. I can come close to the look of film, but not the experience of the film process.
Sep 26, 2021 20:27:35 #
obeone wrote:
I've owned just about every Canon digital camera e... (show quote)
You can't understand those menus to set the cameras either huh!?!?
Sep 26, 2021 20:36:32 #
It's not a sign of senility....it's a sign you like to be involved in the art of photography. It's like driving a stick shift automobile instead of an automatic.....you become involved in the machanics of it.
Sep 26, 2021 20:52:02 #
Sep 26, 2021 21:37:10 #
JohnSwanda wrote:
Last time I looked, you can shoot digital cameras on full manual and create the image you want, just like with film.
Except it’s not film. Oops.
Why does it matter? Because it’s a different recording medium. Film records light differently from
digital. Film has what is termed a “soft shoulder” exposure characteristic. It doesn’t blow out highlights instantly like digital. And you never heard of Moire patterns with film because of the random distribution of the crystal grains on film.
I’m not saying it’s better, but I am saying it’s different.
And yes it’s digitized on the back end for printing but just like with audio recording, the front end makes a big difference in the end result.
And one more thing. Are you under the impression that film cameras don’t have auto modes? Just like with digital M mode is a choice with an SLR.
Sep 26, 2021 21:43:15 #
obeone wrote:
Photography is fun again. I guess it's a sign of senility - but who cares.
No, it isn't, and you know that. Taking on a passion challenge stimulates the mind.
Old Guys Rule.
Sep 26, 2021 22:09:21 #
The best thing about film is your memories get better even if the pictures didn't.
Sep 26, 2021 22:11:04 #
RiJoRi
Loc: Sandy Ridge, NC
"Photography is fun again."
That's what's important 👌
"I guess it's a sign of senility - but who cares."
Nah - it's a sign of maturity - you know what you like, and don't really care what the kiddies "think".
(And, we can have ice-cream for breakfast if we want! 😋)
--Rich
That's what's important 👌
"I guess it's a sign of senility - but who cares."
Nah - it's a sign of maturity - you know what you like, and don't really care what the kiddies "think".
(And, we can have ice-cream for breakfast if we want! 😋)
--Rich
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