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Film vs Digital
Donkey_Kong:
--- Quote from: Ken Layton on August 30, 2008, 11:32:19 am ---I still mostly use my 35mm Ricoh SLR camera. When I take a picture, I want it to last. My camera is almost 30 years old and I've shot hundreds of rolls of film with it and it's never broken down---ever.
All my friends have 'digital' (I call them electronic cameras) cameras and they're always broken. They go out and buy one and 3 months later it's broken, out-of-warranty, or costs too much to fix. So they throw it away and go out and buy another one! How stupid.
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We have a canon rebel xt and have taken about 40,000 pictures with it. Still works like the day I got it...the battery still lasts very long (though not QUITE as long as when it was new). I was just starting to wonder the other day what the life cycle of that poor thing is? Not only has it taken 40,000 images on the highest resolution setting...it's done so in some of the craziest environments...snowboarding, skateboarding, kitesurfing, roofing, wood carving (major dust storms) you name it...it's been there and done that. lol I don't think I will ever buy anything other than canon after this.
Oh, and could you imagine...40,000 prints?!?!?
mameotron:
I haven't used my regular camera at all since I got a digital one for christmas 4 years ago. at 4 megapixels it was way expensive, but it works as well today as it did the day I got it. Plus, I was really blown away at the quality of prints I get from my $40 Lexmark printer and decent Kodak film paper. Not professional quality, but close enough for my vacation photos.
My sister in law is a professional photographer, and at 24 years old she has never used anything but digital. You can't tell the difference in her work vs. someone who works in the old film media. I think digital has already won this contest.
ark_ader:
If I went back to black and white work, I could very easily set up my darkroom up again. My father, brother and I ran a successful camera/B&W processing store in Whittier, CA for many years. When Kodak started to up their prices, and Fuji cut back their film stock, we saw the writing on the walls.
I always had an interest to go back to mainstream studio work, like private modeling ;D or advertising and public relations, but the market isn't out there as most of these roles are done in-house now. I can very easily get the needed chemicals and gas dryer...well a small one. The draw back is the discoloration of your fingernails, which are kinda nasty. I cannot wear gloves. My water bill probably would go up too, reverse osmosis etc.
So I can understand the digital debate, as I could go digital for that work, but I think I tend to go with what I am used to, and stick to film like my old man did. Another thing I hate about digital is the corruption issue, where you spent all day shooting a wedding, only to find your work lost by some data corruption. Its near impossible to get a second chance to film a wedding a second time.
But here come the rub: Archiving is perfect for digital, and I move all my family photo albums to disc, yet if I had to search though all the mountains of negs I have in storage, and had them processed again it would be very expensive. Some of the negs have gone brittle with age. So that is OK as I'm not enlarging those prints. ;D
patrickl:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on August 31, 2008, 07:00:05 am ---Another thing I hate about digital is the corruption issue, where you spent all day shooting a wedding, only to find your work lost by some data corruption. Its near impossible to get a second chance to film a wedding a second time.
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Indeed. That's why I don't go for the 8GB (or bigger) cards. I just use a bunch of 2GB and 4GB cards. Also, get good cards. Ones that come with software to recover (most) corruption that might occur. It makes no sense to save a few bucks on memory cards when you just spend hundreds of dollars on a camera (or maybe even thousands if you go for a dSLR with lenses).
I've had cards come out of washing machines and they were fine.
Blanka:
Since the D3 and D700 from Nikon I throw the towel in the ring. My Provia and Velvia's cannot keep up to these mofo's.
The big problem with digital is that it hollowed out the profession. Someone with cash buys a 3D, and shoots 10000 pictures at a wedding (the shutter only handles 300000 shots, so that is 30 weddings to earn your D3 back!), and then chooses 100 'nice' ones. Professional photographer? Yeah right.
Try to duck-tape the LCD, use a flash card that only holds 100 shots and then do a wedding! If you succeed that, you know what you're doing. I like to come home from holiday with 30 rolls and not knowing what is on them and where I took them. Now the whole bunch is geo- and time-tagged and uploaded to flickr before you know it. A lot of the fun is gone.
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