Sitting in Barnes and Noble yesterday with no new magazines to peruse other than Outdoor Photographer, a rag I'm not at all keen on, I was startled to read a pro film article. Jack Dykinga and another photographer I was unfamiliar with, were quoted as still very much working with film and not about to 'go digital' anytime soon at the front end of their work at least. This was startling not so much because of what they were doing, but because it was being described in that particular magazine at all. (OP has even editorially answered the charge that their calendar still uses LF images despite their pro digital mania by explaining that there's a large backlog of film images still to be used before a more general switch over to digital ones occurs.) Dykinga was particularly enthusiastic about the unsurpassed quality of large format film (he states that a 4x5 image is the equivalent of 500 megapixels) and the greater certainty he feels about preserving his images in that medium rather than running the risk of losing all in an unanticipated, accidental digital storage crash.
So....I wonder if OP has taken a peek at what's being discussed on this forum and by traditional photographers on other forums and decided to lighten their editorial zeal for digi uber alles. Maybe APUG is making a difference in the world of those who do the bidding of the commercial powers that be. Of course, I could be wrong!
So....I wonder if OP has taken a peek at what's being discussed on this forum and by traditional photographers on other forums and decided to lighten their editorial zeal for digi uber alles. Maybe APUG is making a difference in the world of those who do the bidding of the commercial powers that be. Of course, I could be wrong!