Just HOW ANALOG Are You?

[Steve Bellayr]

Currently 99%. I do convert some photos to disc & then send the disc to friends.

 

[Iwagoshi]

C'mon now, I've got an iPhone, how can I not use the d-cam (with the polanoid app). I also have ten years worth of d-cams starting with the Canon G-2, all P/Ss--never saw the sense in a DSLR--which are now in the glove boxes of various vehicles to record (for insurance) the inevitable fender bender. But what I hang on the wall is 100% analogue. Note to self: check the batteries in the glove-box cameras.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I do not have a camera in my cell phone either.

Steve

 

[mopar_guy]

I do not own a digital camera and I don't want to spend money on a camera that will be obsolete in a couple of years. On the other hand, I sometimes scan prints for posting on the web or for a friend or family member. I have just ordered a film scanner that has not arrived as of yet. It is too useful to be able to send an image electronically if I need to.
Dave

 

[PeteZ8]

I'll be honest, I shoot mostly digital. Part of that may be my prior lack of a "proper" darkroom; it formerly being a shared space. Perhaps things will change as I get settled into my new place but it will take a while.

For now, there are certain things I simply can't beat di***** for, and one of them being wildlife which is most of what I shoot.

I can probably count on one hand, with fingers left over, how many digital files I have converted to B&W though. I cringe at the thought to of turning something so sacred and so pure into a pile of 1's and 0's. If I want something in B&W, it's going on film.

 

[lorirfrommontana]

I mostly shoot B&W and am completely analog with my B&W prints. Color film is taken in so it is hybrid as I am sure they are scanned. I would say that less than 10% of what I shoot is digital or color. Mostly pictures of the children in programs and such is done on digital but I usually still bring along some film to shoot! Lori

 

[DLawson]

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.

I have a digital camera, about 8 years old. But I don't think of it as a photographic item. I see it as a recording device. I don't use it much, had to scramble to find batteries when someone backed into our mailbox post.

I'll keep it around for the very good suggestion someone made of getting in-progress shots of dismantling things that I don't have experience assembling.

I bought the thing for shots (feral cats) going direct to a web site. I found it fun, but not quite satisfying, for other work/play. Eventually, the shutter latency drained all the fun away.

 

[Dick Sheppard]

I am totally non-digital, totally. I have, however, begun to wish I could do the digital thing to make
enlarged negatives, and learn how to use digital to post photographs on the web, and such as that.
My first, and only love is B&W film, and the magic of seeing an image emerge on the film, then in the
the tray. It has been that way for seventy years and I find no reason to change, ever.

 

[2F/2F]

My only digital camera is a Canon 10D, and I have one lens for it. It was given to me by a well-off friend who upgraded to a 1D Mk. IIN. I have no need for anything else at this point. It is beat up, but still has under 20,000 clicks on it (8,000 of which were on it when I got it about three years ago). I racked up the clicks pretty quickly because I was shooting for a newspaper for a while. I borrow additional gear to do weddings. Occasionally I want digital pix so I can easily send them to friends or what have you, and I will use the 10D and 50mm lens. I have Photoshop 7.0 and a nearly ten-year-old desktop computer, and nothing but the Canon software on my inherited laptop (which is only three years old). It is not that I am anti digital.....just that I use it so infrequently for my own pictures that there is no use for spending the amount of money I would have to spend to have anything nicer. I do need to upgrade some day soon...but not for personal "work".

 

[lns]

I had to put myself in the second category, since I do own a digital p&s and an iPhone, but I am 99.9 percent analogue.

I understand why photographers have to use digital for commercial work, but I'm glad I don't.

-Laura

 

[salihonba]

I can't afford to spend my money on digital gears, they tend to drop values the moment you paid, but analog gears last as long as they can, even makes profit someday you sell them.

 

[Steve Roberts]

I don't own (and never have owned) a d*****l camera. My only crossover is when I scan things for convenience or necessity when submitting them for publication, but I'm not into computing/computers so that's always a bit of a struggle. I used to mess around with the settings, but the latest scanner/software combination that I use has an "auto everything" button that produces far better results than when I take it upon myself to f**t around with pixels, dpi and all that stuff. I limit my input to colour balance, sharpness, brightness and cropping (and thank god for the "undo" option!)

Steve

 

[photo8x10]

I'm totally analog LF AND ULF I don't have any kind of digital camera, and when I need some for internet I ask to my father mostly analog but he use also digital camera more or less 20%.

Stefano

 

[rmolson]

analog

I shoot everything in analog b&w and do wet darkroom exclusively I do however use a digital p/s for stuff I want to sell on ebay Or send something online to one of my kids.

 

[jeffreyg]

I shoot b&w MF and 4x5 analog, print in a wet darkroom silver and platinum/palladium. I enlarge negatives on to x-ray duplicating film for pt/pd but have found enlarging them digitally also works well. I find scanning negatives and printing proofs with ps is helpful to see if burning and/or dodging will be needed as well as what contrast controls I might need (use Aristo VCL4500 enlarger light source with Ilford mg fiber paper). I also will do some prints digitally with ultrachrome ink on rag paper. Occasionally you the right composition with something that just won't work in the darkroom and photoshop saves the day. Hey, you can even make photographs of friends and relatives look like what they think they look like.

 

[John Jarosz]

I use digital for family snaps and I've been scanning old family pics to build an archive.
My personal photography is 100% analog. So much so that I jumped into 8x20 so I would not have learn to make large digital negs for contact printing my carbon prints.

 

[glockman99]

Nothing to do with cameras, but I wear an analog watch (a Citizen "Ecozilla"), and it gives me a laugh when a kid (teenagers) asks me what time it is and I show him my watch, only to find that unless it's digital, alot of kids can't tell time. It's funny, but sad at the same time.

 

[Ric Johnson]

Only analog. My wife owns a digital but I have never used it, and probably never will. I live in my b&w homemade darkroom.

 

[minox59]

The only reason I bought my Nikon Digital is to enter shows. Everybody wants images on a stupid disc. IMHO the only way to judge work is in the original if you can't do that by slide. The absolute worse way of doing it is by cd.

 

[benjiboy]

The only digital equipment I own are two light meters, a Sekonic L-358 and a Gossen Digipro.

 

[fotch]

I use digital, direct from camera or scanned from negative, for any commercial use such as product photos since it either goes on line or printed by my laser printer. It’s great for quick communications through email. It has replace Polaroid more easily than film. However, you still need to know how to properly expose, light, and compose.
I prefer film and prints for personal use, because the quality blows away anything digital. Even if digitized by scanning, film is superior. It also will last a lifetime, maybe several lifetimes.
Film will outlast any computer, file format, or any back up plan. I don’t need batteries or a recharger. My entire lens collection work as they should, except when on a DSLR which makes my normal a telephoto. No shutter lag. No confusion of what the %#!@ computerized camera or software is doing.
I often thought that Kodak and others should have emphasized low cost scanners to encourage continued use of film by the more serious user.
I would like to see both live side by side, happily ever after.

 

[benjiboy]

The only digital equipment I own are two light meters, a Sekonic L-358 and a Gossen Digipro.

Update-I broke my mobile phone yesterday, and I bought a new cellphone with a digital camera in it , It's very hard to find one without these days,I hope this Isn't the thin end of the wedge.

 

[Eric Rose]

All black and white is film, all colour is digital. Since I shoot mostly black and white I guess I'm somewhere around 65-70% analog.