Film vs Digital
Mar 2, 2021 10:46:43 #
Darkroom317 wrote:
Acrylics didn't replace oils. Photography didn't replace painting. Increasingly with everything being digital and processed and viewed on computers, there is a desire for tangibility. Not only is film making a small come back but the past decade has seen a renaissance for alternative and historic processes.
As for historic processes, my great grandparents cooked on a wood stove, not gonna happen.
But some people do get into antiques.
Digital basically has replaced film. When all us old folk die off, who will be shooting film?
Mar 2, 2021 10:47:35 #
Longshadow wrote:
As for historic processes, my great grandparents cooked on a wood stove, not gonna happen.
But some people do get into antiques.
Digital basically has replaced film. When all us old folk die off, who will be shooting film?
But some people do get into antiques.
Digital basically has replaced film. When all us old folk die off, who will be shooting film?
I'm 31. Take a guess who will be using it.
Mar 2, 2021 10:53:13 #
Darkroom317 wrote:
I'm 31. Take a guess who will be using it.
Cool, including you, that's one.
Mar 2, 2021 10:55:30 #
I don't go back to film I never left. Film is fun to use but it's expensive and much more harder to do than in the old days. But film is fun and I do photography for fun.
Mar 2, 2021 10:58:34 #
Longshadow wrote:
Cool, including you, that's one.
I knew that was coming
Mar 2, 2021 15:27:50 #
I enjoy using many of my film cameras, especially the TLR's. In many ways it is a different experience than working with a digital camera. Why should I care about what most people are using or what's trendy? I also enjoy painting with real brushes, paint and canvas, although I'm no stranger to digital art with tablet and stylus. As I'm neither a professional photographer nor a professional illustrator, I feel no need to pretend I'm one and as such, restrict myself to digital only. That's the freedom of being a hobbyist - I can take any approach that brings me enjoyment.
Mar 2, 2021 16:37:14 #
rook2c4 wrote:
I enjoy using many of my film cameras, especially ... (show quote)
Yes, agreed.
I don't care about new, trendy, or gee-whiz-bang either, nor what Joe Schmoe has, I use what I want.
Not getting a mirrorless;
my Sony H-1 is 15years old;
my Canon T1i is 11 years old;
my Galaxy S-III phone is 9 years old;
my car is 10 years old;
not getting Windows 10 until a computer breaks.
The freedom as a result of being able to control G.A.S., and be happy with what I have.
And they all still work, as my AM radio from 1964 does.
Both need and want are relative.
Life is good.
Mar 2, 2021 16:39:16 #
Mar 2, 2021 17:41:10 #
BebuLamar wrote:
I don't go back to film I never left. Film is fun to use but it's expensive and much more harder to do than in the old days. But film is fun and I do photography for fun.
I am sorry but how is it more fun than digital?
Mar 2, 2021 17:47:30 #
I don't believe it was stated as being more fun. It's fun. How? Simple, there is the processing of the exposed film and seeing the images captured when the film is pulled from the wash and hung to dry. I find that feeling of successfully capturing a scene and seeing the result of the processing is magnificent.
I have the same elation when I process digital photographs and see them come to life.
But, as Shel stated, "Some folks likes ham hocks and some folks like pork chops and some folks likes vegetable soup."
I won't try to convince you away from your opinion. Don't knock those of us who enjoy film as a medium.
--Bob
I have the same elation when I process digital photographs and see them come to life.
But, as Shel stated, "Some folks likes ham hocks and some folks like pork chops and some folks likes vegetable soup."
I won't try to convince you away from your opinion. Don't knock those of us who enjoy film as a medium.
--Bob
taxslave wrote:
I am sorry but how is it more fun than digital?
Mar 2, 2021 18:38:36 #
taxslave wrote:
I am sorry but how is it more fun than digital?
Back when I did my own B&W I had a blast doing it!
Watching the image develop. (I didn't do color.)
I'd spend hours in the darkroom sometimes.
Had friends work with me some times.
The digital darkroom is so much easier though.
I can work on it anytime, and in color.
Mar 2, 2021 18:40:56 #
mwsilvers
Loc: Central New Jersey
CHG_CANON wrote:
The only people shooting film in 2021 are fossils, the idle rich and hipsters from Brooklyn.
And the occasional artist.
Mar 2, 2021 18:41:57 #
taxslave wrote:
I am sorry but how is it more fun than digital?
It's a lot more doing. Although I shoot only in color and don't have the ability seeing the image appearing on the prints but I develop and make color prints in my own darkroom. That's all the fun.
Mar 2, 2021 20:17:19 #
BebuLamar wrote:
It's a lot more doing. Although I shoot only in color and don't have the ability seeing the image appearing on the prints but I develop and make color prints in my own darkroom. That's all the fun.
I used to develop color and b&w. I also made prints from slides with a process called Cibachrome. It was a way to an end - that being the final result of the print. I guess there was some fun involved but I don’t miss it. I can get the final result now with a lot less effort. Even a phone call was a lot more effort back then but I would never go back to a dial phone and long distance charges. I’m glad though that you are exploring the process of film development. Have fun!
Mar 3, 2021 05:51:01 #
rmalarz wrote:
...I don't look at it as a contest...It's two different mediums...It’s two different tools...
--Bob
...I don't look at it as a contest...It's two different mediums...It’s two different tools...
--Bob
I don’t shoot any digital other than with my cell phone. Mostly use 8x10 and now experimenting with glass plates, just for the sheer joy of the photographic process and creating a beautiful image once in a while. It is all photography like Bob said.
Jerry
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