I took film classes, lasted only a week, once they show us the processing to develope, I quit after that. Too much work on developing, I'll stick to my digital and quad core............ :-)
I only switched to digital a year and a half ago.....and i went very begrudingly .....i loved film!!! and with film, i shot and was done....with digital...the process goes on forever!! Of coarse, i could shoot it and do very little and have it out the door, but I have come to love digital and the control that I have with it and the creativeness that it allows. It has brought me more business, more sales....I wont go back, not even to play. I am fully converted! ha ha But i cannot bring myself to get rid of my film cameras...you never forget "your first".
Old timer? Put a Nikon F6 to work and you will see and feel the fun for yourself.
Getting new clients because you have a digital camera?
How is that accomplished?
I still shoot B&W with film. I just recently bought myself a second hand darkroom set-up. Love it. Digital is great, but there is something so real and tangible about working with film. I especially love using my old Minolta X-500, though my EOS 30 is certainly not gathering dust yet!
I wouldn't necessarily use it for weddings as digital is more practical in that case. However, for B&W work digital just is not quite up there with film yet. You look at the world differently too if you know you have a B&W film in your camera. B&W just doesn't look as good converted from a colour image. But that is just my opinion.
kim magee wrote:
I only switched to digital a year and a half ago.....and i went very begrudingly .....i loved film!!! and with film, i shot and was done....with digital...the process goes on forever!! Of coarse, i could shoot it and do very little and have it out the door, but I have come to love digital and the control that I have with it and the creativeness that it allows. It has brought me more business, more sales....I wont go back, not even to play. I am fully converted! ha ha But i cannot bring myself to get rid of my film cameras...you never forget "your first". ...Show more →
This is very similar to my experiences and feelings. I was a hardcore, death before digital, you'll have to pry my enlarger out of my cold dead fingers, sort of film geek four years ago when I very reluctantly bought my first DSLR for a job where the client needed low res files emailed right after the shoot. I tried to hate it, but it rather quickly seduced me. Last year I sold my Hasselblad. I few months ago I shut down my bw darkroom, and gave away the last of my papers and chems. I've given away most of the film in the freezer too. Film is great, and served me well for many years; digital rocks and I'm loving using it and the results I get. The common canard is that people switch because digital is easier; I switched because digital is better in most situations.
I'll hold on to my remaining film cameras; they're worth more to me even if I'm not using them than on the used market. There are some that I'll shoot just because I love using them (Rolleiflex), or they're weird (Widelux), and it'll still be a few more years (5 to 10?) before I can afford a DSLR that matches sheet film quality so I'll keep the 4x5's dusted off. Other than 4x5 though, about the only instance where I'd rather be shooting film is if my exposure times are over 15 or 20 min. It's hard to beat a battery-less, mechanical camera for all night exposures.
It is interesting to shoot a wedding with B&W film in one body and a digital body around your neck as well. Getting both color digital and B&W film, at the same time and mixing it up that way.
With LR, I am not so sure digital has not caught up to B&W film. It sure is smoother to shoot the digital and convert to B&W but the real film grain can be missed.
I have seen entire weddings shot with B&W film and the grain and the way the whites go is real artsey.
