Journalist...the expense was on someone else's ticket, not his own. One 4x5 is equivant to a full roll of 135, in relative film cost and processing cost.
Journalist...the expense was on someone else's ticket, not his own. One 4x5 is equivant to a full roll of 135, in relative film cost and processing cost.Saw a journalist photographer in a movie once and she was shooting 4x5 handheld with range finder, changing sides and refocusing every 5 to 10 seconds.
The only readily available family photos I have are (mostly) Kodachrome slides. My Dad's starting in the 40's, mine starting in the 70's, I processed my own Ektachrome, briefing before going back to Kodak processed Kodachrome.And in a year or two, wondering what to do with 10^5 digital snaps and RAW files, and how to back up to the latest version of hard drive or cloud, and how to annotate the EXIF data on each file. And then wondering if when you die, will your descendants look at your 10^5 or 10^6 perfectly preserved files?
THIS is perfect! Appreciation of what is right before our eyes.Either way, my post wasn’t to start an argument about which format is slower, or how one person thinks themselves better than the other. I only posted simply to state that *I* have never slowed down enough to really appreciate what I was photographing, and the constraints of what I was doing yesterday opened my eyes to just how much I might be missing.
carry on.
My Bolex can do up to 48 frames/sec. 100' of film gone in a few seconds.Journalist...the expense was on someone else's ticket, not his own. One 4x5 is equivant to a full roll of 135, in relative film cost and processing cost.
Me too. If I shot film like I do digital I would be bankrupt in less than a year.
This is my main reason for slow-going with film and I believe many others will say the same.
The "slows me down" thing is BS. It's how film snobs convince themselves they are better photographers because they use film as opposed to the "spray and prey" approach. The same nonsense is often uttered in the large format world: "large format slows me down...." going on to explain that it forces them to concentrate more on composition etc. etc. baloney.
If you enjoy film, excellent. That's all there is to it from an art perspective.[/QUOTI tend to think a lot beforehand - but work pretty fast when actually shooting.
Don't forget to avoid looking at the screen on the back.I think I might scrub the layer of dust off the D700 and take it out and act like it’s the RB, avoiding any technology it possesses.
Oh boy, about $25-30 spent on film and processing every 10 seconds! The expense causes folks to rethink burst shooting.
And in a year or two, wondering what to do with 10^5 digital snaps and RAW files, and how to back up to the latest version of hard drive or cloud, and how to annotate the EXIF data on each file. And then wondering if when you die, will your descendants look at your 10^5 or 10^6 perfectly preserved files?
Don't forget to avoid looking at the screen on the back.
Right before re-discovering film I was losing interest in digital because brute-forcing works so well.
Cheese gets better with age. Also, the photography you described keeps you centered in the moment rather than in yesterday or tomorrow. It does that for me too. Driving a car in the countryside also works for me. It's all about right now.For me it's not even digital vs film, it's just about life in general. I work 12 hour shifts listening to adults complain about how they can't take a nap because their neighbor is mowing their lawn, and ridiculous things like that. TV, radio, social media, and even a trip to the convenience store sometimes overwhelms me with negative influences. Now that I've crossed the center divide and life is downhill from here, especially times like these, it seems that days go by faster and faster and faster. Time is flying. What I really appreciated when shooting on Monday was the time it took me to meter, re-meter, and re-re-meter my scene. The minutes it took to set up the tripod and compose the shot, and the time I was forced to take to really look at, walk around, smell, feel, and touch the scene I was shooting. At one point, I was so immersed in what I was doing that I didn't notice the lady with her garden cart trying to pass me. I have no idea how long she had been standing there, but she finally built up the courage to say "right behind you". I apologized and told her that I didn't see her there. All of it combined was a very welcomed escape from the thoughts of boat work, bills, work work, cleaning, chores, and any other adult responsibilities that we deal with on a daily basis.
I think I might scrub the layer of dust off the D700 and take it out and act like it’s the RB, avoiding any technology it possesses.
For me it's not even digital vs film, it's just about life in general.
I work 12 hour shifts listening to adults complain about how they can't take a nap because their neighbor is mowing their lawn, and ridiculous things like that. TV, radio, social media, and even a trip to the convenience store sometimes overwhelms me with negative influences.
Now that I've crossed the center divide and life is downhill from here, especially times like these, it seems that days go by faster and faster and faster.
Time is flying. What I really appreciated when shooting on Monday was the time it took me to meter, re-meter, and re-re-meter my scene. The minutes it took to set up the tripod and compose the shot, and the time I was forced to take to really look at, walk around, smell, feel, and touch the scene I was shooting. At one point, I was so immersed in what I was doing that I didn't notice the lady with her garden cart trying to pass me. I have no idea how long she had been standing there, but she finally built up the courage to say "right behind you". I apologized and told her that I didn't see her there.
All of it combined was a very welcomed escape from the thoughts of boat work, bills, work work, cleaning, chores, and any other adult responsibilities that we deal with on a daily basis.
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