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Just HOW ANALOG Are You?

HOW Analog Are You?

  • Totally analog; don't own or use a digital camera of any kind.

    Votes: 78 34.7%

  • Mostly analog/film; may on occasion use a digital camera (less than 10% of time)

    Votes: 101 44.9%

  • Mostly hybrid; use film primarily for capture, and scan & print digitally most of the time

    Votes: 46 20.4%
  • Total voters
    225
  • Poll closed .
I have a digital camera which I use for quick snaps to go online, and as a photographic sketchbook.

My monochrome work is totally analog, and makes up > 90% of my effort. Colour work is hybrid, and is usually (quite a bit) < 5% of my time.
 
I am completely analog: my body has no electronic or cybernetic implants.
 
As a colour photographer I shoot on film, scan, and then print wet or analog on a Lambda or Lightjet, admittedly at a professional lab. As a historical process photographer, I shoot film, use a digital inkjet negative, print using historical analog materials and chemistry.

To me this is all analog, I don't consider this hybrid at all (yeah, yeah, yeah no heckling from the peanut gallery).

Regards, Art.
 
Very interesting poll. Makes you think about how you work. I wish I could say I was 100% analog, but I'm not. I do have a P&S d*gital that I use occasionally. I do process/print my B&W, but haven't advanced to color so I usually scan the ones I like and have costco make the prints for me.

Regards,
Jon
 
My answer is slightly hypocritical. I do scan a lot of my negatives and intend to employ a hybrid work flow in the future with digital negatives, still to make analog prints with.
But as of now, the only way I can actually output prints are with analog methods.

- Thomas
 
The only digital camera I own in my cellphone. I do scan my negatives for proof sheets, all the rest of my printing for the last couple of years has been in the darkroom. Sadly I am going to have to get a digital camera, mainly because now that I am shooting ULF I don't have a scanner capable of scanning that big. So I will have to shoot my ULF prints to display them on the web. The only time I used the digital camera in my cellphone was when my wife was rear ended in a car park. I needed to quickly document the damage before the police came.
 
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That's a very digital number. A more analogue answer would have been: Somewhere in the infinite depths located between 87, and 88 percent, using the secondary fine control knob to stay the course...

Yeah, that's good.
 
I'm hybrid, it makes sense when you don't own your home and occupying the bathroom for to long will make the wife mad.
 
I have a p&s d*gital for when I want to be able to email a picture, or for internet use. However, when I want to shoot - it's film all the way!!
 
Only analog cameras. All black & white is done by wet darkroom. Color is analog except for what is sent to one business sponsor who is allows with restrictions to use them on the website and for advertising. Now that sponsor said that he would rather have my black & white prints.
 
Your options do not include my situation (as is often the case where these polls pop up, there are too many possibly variations to be covered by a few buttons).

For my personal work, all analog black and white, from beginning to end. For paid work, lots of digital. For paid work, it depends on what the client is looking for, but digital is a big part of that picture. Either way, I don't really do any hybrid at all.
 
Hybrid Shoot/Dev black and white scan and print or upload
Colour is split between Digi and Slide
 
At work - digithing to document existing site conditions feeding into an engineering design project all the time; Usually after a junior empolyee comes in with next to useless digi photos, and tries to blow them up to show the areas I wanted them to capture.

At home - I have an old Nikon 950, that I have a IR filter across. I use it as a kind of Polaroid to see how the scene looks like in IR before using up any of my remianing stash of HIE on a scene. In the future I will likely turn this into an IR only camera once the last of the HIE/SFX is gone.

I use a scanner to scan negs of images that models want for their facebook/myspace/flickr account use. Or for images of old slides that my mom wants prints of for albums that she is compiling.
 
I DO NOT USE a digital camera and I don't plan on doing so for anything remotly serious anytime soon. I will admit that I have an old digital that was given to me that came out in 2003, but I haven't taken a single photo with it.
 
The only digital camera I own is the one in my phone. I have used DSLRs when taking photos for someone else, but all of my own work is done on film and printed with an enlarger.
 
I currently shoot maybe 50% film, 50% digital. But I suspect that this will change in the future, given what is happening to slide film these days. Without slide film, my motivation to shoot film is pretty much out the window, as I have never really liked C41.
 

What happened to slide film? Only a poorly selling film got dropped. There are still slide films available.

If that is not good enough for you, send me your film cameras, please.

steve
 
I will admit that I have an old digital that was given to me that came out in 2003, but I haven't taken a single photo with it.
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A tautology perhaps, as by some definitions, digital cameras don't make photographs at all.
 
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