Bifurcator wrote:
[1]Is film really dead ? or going to be ?
It\'s half dead. I bet in another 10 or 15 years it\'ll be almost all gone.
[2]What do you gain in terms of convenience compared to digital? what do you lose ?
You lose everything! Some people say that it paces them but to me that\'s pretty lame. No self control? Don\'t want to use the advantages of digital?
Do airport scanners destroy film ? how do you protect it ?
Yes, Led film bags. I assume they\'re still readily available anyway.
When Nikon became unable to produce new products over the past year or two, I began buying historical film gear. It\'s a LOT of fun, and I\'ve learned a lot using it. I have a number of premium film cameras but four of them are a 1914 Kodak Special No.1, 1937 Voigtlander Bessa RF 6x9, 1942 Lecia IIIc, and 1951 Rolleiflex MX-EVS. I love all of these! Three of them are 120/medium format, and the Leica is of course 35mm. The Leica is special--very sexy and has a very high \"cool factor.\" I have half way gone back to shooting film, including 4x5. The Leica is just plain cool, but for the same amount of effort you could shoot something like the 645 rangefinders and get a negative nearly three times bigger. Film is ultimately more archivable than digital--that\'s its main advantage.
Now to address points above:
1. I don\'t see film being \"gone\". Slide film, yes. Color, no. B&W, certainly not.
2. I don\'t shoot film for convenience. I shoot it for the classic look I can\'t get from
my Nikon DSLR, and because of its cachet. You pull out a Rollei or a Leica,
and everyone around immediately ignores the guys with the D4 and start hang-
ing around you.
3. Up to ISO 400, the security scanners are OK. Do NOT NOT NOT put film into
checked baggage. I usually hand the airport guards my film, in a clear plastic
bag, and ask for a hand check. They have obliged me, including in England &
Iceland. If you put film in a lead bag, they just dial up the power of the scanner
to see what\'s in the bag and destroy the film.
I shoot film because (1) It is cool (2) I got burned out on the digital look (3) I wanted to do something different from the rest of the herd (4) I love the aesthetics of using a camera from another time. I often wonder who the original owner was, what they photo\'d, and what happened to them. I especially wonder about this when using that 1942 Leica.........
Kent in SD
Aug 05, 2012 at 10:04 AM
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