Film to Digital Scan (Page 4): My street shooting, yes.

Spirit Vision Photography Loc: Behind a Camera.

Architect1776 wrote:

More than a few.
Interesting, so yours are primarily people.

My street shooting, yes.

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

Stan Fayer wrote:

Is it worth shooting Film if all your going to do is scan and digitalize your negatives, or is it self defeating.

If you need to ask the question you probably should not be shooting film. Dedicated film shooters should know why they ae shooting film, and how they plan to process it to get the results they want.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Stan Fayer wrote:

Is it worth shooting Film if all your going to do is scan and digitalize your negatives, or is it self defeating.

Film is an addictive drug for some. They like the process of making images with physical media.

They claim the images look better (but after 45 years of using film and the last 19 years using digital cameras, including five years leading production teams in a large pro portrait company as we moved from film capture/optical printing to digital capture/digital printing, I will dispute that!).

My use of digital tools to copy film is limited to archiving my extensive collection of slides and negatives from 1960 to 2005, and helping select others do the same.

Here's a PDF file of the whole process I use, detailed in a photo-illustrated white paper:

Camera Scanning.pdf opens in your favorite PDF reader.
Attached file:
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burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Spirit Vision Photography wrote:

A few of my street snaps.

View my photos at: https://www.spiritvisionphotography.com/Street-Life

SPV

NICE WORK!

OldCADuser Loc: Irvine, CA

With respect to my archive and database, here's a link to a topic I started where I talk about what I did including an image showing what my forms page looks like:

https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-688357-1.html

Note that the only thing that has changed is that the 'Archive' entry is now simply the name of the sub-folder where the images are stored on my local hard-drive and my archive drive. I've stopped using DVD-ROMS as my offline storage a couple of years ago and now use a small 2TB drive, kept in my safe, as my disaster backup. My son in Texas has a couple of high capacity memory sticks (which I replace every six months or so) as my ultimate disaster backup.

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Architect1776 wrote:

If there were a local lab.
Many do not have that luxury.
Curious, why wander streets?
Is there that much variety or perhaps a large city.
Sounds like fun if a large city with plenty of unique features and architecture.
You are very lucky.

FWIW, I find wandering less productive than choosing my spot and letting subjects do the wandering. I choose context, setting, light etc and then wait. Not so different from a birders blind. Everything below is bagged by adopting a spot for its opportunity value, and then just waiting and watching.

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burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

User ID wrote:

FWIW, I find wandering less productive than choosing my spot and letting subjects do the wandering. I choose context, setting, light etc and then wait. Not so different from a birders blind. Everything below is bagged by adopting a spot for its opportunity value, and then just waiting and watching.

Nice work! Great all around. Bresson took that same tactic of planting himself, observing, and waiting for the moment to happen.

therwol Loc: USA

User ID wrote:

FWIW, I find wandering less productive than choosing my spot and letting subjects do the wandering. I choose context, setting, light etc and then wait. Not so different from a birders blind. Everything below is bagged by adopting a spot for its opportunity value, and then just waiting and watching.

Many clues. Albany, NY. Nice pictures, by the way.

Spirit Vision Photography Loc: Behind a Camera.

burkphoto wrote:

Nice work! Great all around. Bresson took that same tactic of planting himself, observing, and waiting for the moment to happen.

I have tried just waiting for something to happen as I perched myself in one spot. However, I found that when I go to where the action is, it’s much more productive for me. I have attached some of my “wandering” images. The Foggy Morning Run was shot with a digital rig. All others shot on B/W film.

therwol Loc: USA

Spirit Vision Photography wrote:

I have tried just waiting for something to happen as I perched myself in one spot. However, I found that when I go to where the action is, it’s much more productive for me. I have attached some of my “wandering” images. The Foggy Morning Run was shot with a digital rig. All others shot on B/W film.

Nice. Still using film? Just curious.

Spirit Vision Photography Loc: Behind a Camera.

therwol wrote:

Nice. Still using film? Just curious.

I went to digital not long ago. But I still sometimes burn B/W film when street or rodeo shooting.

mtbear

I only use film for 120 6x9 format. I use a Mamiya universal for its back movements. It's more about the function of the camera than the film.

Spirit Vision Photography Loc: Behind a Camera.

mtbear wrote:

I only use film for 120 6x9 format. I use a Mamiya universal for its back movements. It's more about the function of the camera than the film.

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TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

JohnSwanda wrote:

The only way I would use film now is if it were B&W and I developed and printed it in a darkroom again. I think a great B&W silver darkroom print is better than any digital B&W print I've seen. But with digital I have come to love color anyway and I have no interest in B&W any more.

I agree. To my eye, a good B&W silver print is preferable as well, which is why I still have film cameras and a darkroom. I quit color film when Cibachrome materials became unavailable.

petercbrandt Loc: New York City, Manhattan

NO ! Simply buy a good digital camera. You may as well join the gang !