It also made it possible for my to have 16mm through 4x5 cameras. I have Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Minolta, Fuji, Olympus, Bronica, Mamiya, Graflex, Kodak, Praktika, Yashica, and many many others sitting on a shelf. All for less than I paid for my digital camera and lens. To get sorta back on subject. This is still a magical time to live in for photographers. Outside of internet auction sites that the hipsters drove the prices up, cameras are so very cheap. I have people give them to me. And film too. I have a fully equipped darkroom, more developing tanks than I know what to do with and with the internet I have 150 years of knowledge at my fingertips. I learned more about photography in the last half decade then would have been possible 20 years ago.
Chimping makes one miss shots? Silliest thing I've heard today...but it's early.
The digital revolution has made it possible for me to have Hasselblads.
pre-buffering your shots so you can literally take a picture that happened before you press the shutter button
Anything that involves action. Sports, children, street photography, animals. While one is chimping, a lot can happen that won't be repeated.Chimping makes one miss shots? Silliest thing I've heard today...but it's early.
funny thing is people have been chimping since before polaroids were invented and after that when auto winders were made. I always laugh when the analog mafia goes off on chimpers when they probably chimped before it was called chimping ... friend from college's dad was some sort of well known nat geo photographer or something .. who said he had to take 10s of thousands of images to get 1 that was published and if you gave a chimp a camera they would probably be able to take the same photo ... unlike Shakespeare it wouldn't take 1million of them.
Without the digital revolution I would not have been able to have a 4"x5" Pacemaker Speed Graphic, 4"x5" Graflex Model D, a Jobo processor, full color and black & white darkroom, Hasselblad 903 SWC, Hasselblad Fisheye lens, and many formally expensive lenses.
Anything that involves action. Sports, children, street photography, animals. While one is chimping, a lot can happen that won't be repeated.
If missing something while chimping a worry, then as someone else mentioned, one can put it on full-auto and fire at 24 frames per sec or how ever fast those things can go. A lot can happen while one is scratching one's ass, too.
It is just a tool/method -- chimping can't do anything, how it is used is what's important. It can also be a great tool for learning as one goes, if one is interested.
Edited to add -- I so much would like to add "Hamsters" to the title of this thread!!!
Checking the image on a digital camera display (or tethered monitor) is definitely an advantage and should be used as needed depending on the shooting situation. Chimping is the bad habit of obsessively checking after every shot.
Before digital, I recall many commercial shoots where a Polaroid type 55 was shot and the negative given careful inspection for sharpness before film was shot, as well as snip tests being made before determining if adjustments needed to be made to the final film development.
Polaroid 55 was used to check focus as well as lighting.Polaroid was used to check lighting, in particular artificial lighting. Again not chimpin'.
Before digital, film makers would use video assist to check takes as they were shot and again after, before proceeding. Before video assist, some used video cameras alongside the film camera to do the same.IDK SG
I think you are a bit off TBH. there is a long and tired history of people with film cameras chimping. ...
here is some action film stills of LLSC... as you can quite easily see. ... Lancelot link and his crew used to chimp with their film cameras as far back as 1970s, and they were chimps, not chumps. ..
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MRBC4yYX0RM/S46oqWEMWAI/AAAAAAAAAMM/6BA04QYH6-c/s400/lanceLinkDiana1.jpg
Polaroid 55 was used to check focus as well as lighting.
Sure. But that was my response to your comment about Polaroids.Again still not chimpin'
Sure. But that was my response to your comment about Polaroids.
BIngo!I used to do a lot of auto racing photography, and I have seen first-hand times where photographers have missed a peak-action shot (i.e. crash, banzai pass, etc.) because they were chimpin'.
I used to do a lot of auto racing photography, and I have seen first-hand times where photographers have missed a peak-action shot (i.e. crash, banzai pass, etc.) because they were chimpin'.
Didn't occasionally they get hit because they can't take their eye from the viewfinder? Did not some one mention in another thread that the exceptions prove (test) the rule?I used to do a lot of auto racing photography, and I have seen first-hand times where photographers have missed a peak-action shot (i.e. crash, banzai pass, etc.) because they were chimpin'.
Didn't occasionally they get hit because they can't take their eye from the viewfinder? Did not some one mention in another thread that the exceptions prove (test) the rule?
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