For me at least I think of all image making devices and materials as just tools. I use the one(s) that will work to produce the image I want. Sometimes it's digital and sometimes it's film. In my eyes they are equals in the tool chest.
I agree with you on this one.
As a newish photographer though, digital has always been touted as the solution to all photographs problems. And I guess if you grew with the only option as film that may feel very true. However I'm feeling digital has it's own heaping pile of challenges that offset it's solutions.
I gotta find me an affordable better camera though, I'm stretching the limits of my Rebel. Magic Lantern sure helps revitalize it but it's time for me to start seriously thinking about upgrading.
"The reason for shooting digital is chiefly that the client wants the results NOW. Not in a day or tonight but NOW."
That is one of the main reasons digital exits.
A little Digital Rebel SL2 and the EFS-S 10-18mm STM lens would probably be a really big step up for you. The sensor in that little camera is literally exactly the same sensor in the 80D. You get a smaller body, and a little less control than the 80D and a nice wide picture with that 10-18 coupled with the 18-55 STM kit lens will probably cover a lot of ground for you.
For get NOW, bridezillas want to post the actual wedding photos two weeks before the wedding!
Well here goes.
I started photography back in '13 with a Soviet TLR a few rolls of Tmax 400 and no clue about anything whatsoever. I didn't even know what ISO was and spent a month trying to figure out what depth of field meant.
A few months later I stumbled across a Rebel T2i in a pawnshop and moved to digital for a while. Move ahead 6 months and I was gifted a Nikkormat and a bag of black and white film. Since then I've shot 35mm film, 120, color and C-41 developed myself, set up a darkroom and printed. My Rebel became a scanner and that was that.
I just got setup with a side gig photographing exteriors and interiors of foreclosed or houses needing work. Out came the 'ol Rebel and I guess I need to re-embrace Digital. I was spoiled by the latitude of film, I really find that once again I have to pay attention to exposure or I'll blowout my highlights.
I do really enjoy film but I'd have to be crazy to shoot for this kind of work. It makes a bit of side cash that I think will go towards a better camera and a wide lens. At this point all I have to do is be better than Mr. Realtor with an Iphone which is really no sweat.
So here I go, film for fun, digital for business.
This is very reasonable. At least this part: Film is for fun.
But what kind of fun is it if digital Rebel in fully working condition cost 200$ and will lasts for years. Yet in the opposite, to have some fun with film, I have to spend 200$ at least per year for nothing special Kentmere 400, which is cheapest film in bulks.
Lucky you for enjoying the latitude. But to me photography is in the image taking, both digital and film.
It's not always about the money.
$200 a year to support a healthy hobby is pretty cheap. Think of car enthusiasts or RC hobbyists. They'll drop 2-3k without blinking. Also, UFX400 is cheaper than Kentmere.
Not to where I’m. Shipping here is 108 dollars. BH ships same amount of Kentmere film for free.
I shoot both Minolta film and Sony digital, cropped and full frame. I also have Sigma digital bodies and Miranda and Pentax M42 and K mount bodies and lens, I also have MF and LF gear, none very new but all with good glass. I enjoy the darkroom more than fussing with Corel, what I shoot with depends on the circumstances and frankly my mood. Today I shot with my old Sigma SD 9 with M42 lens, 35mm, 28mm and 55mm, and converted all the images to monochrome. Tomorrow I'll take a Sony full frame body and Minolta 9 to the Phoenix Zoo for a traveling exhibit, Dinosaurs in the Desert.
Ah, I see you're in Ca na da as my friend Raffi likes to sing. That would put a damper on gettin' the film sent over. Plus the Canada Post sometimes leaves what to be desired.
I’m not sure what are you trying to say?
BH ships for free to Canada and Canada Post is working fine, with low cost for Canada, USA shipping. I always choose USPS/CP over else.
And that's why hobbies exist. So you can do what you love with your life, and still make an honest living. I learned a long time ago that doing your hobby for a living isn't as great an idea as it sounds. In fact, it's a great way to lose your passion for it. Nothing takes the fun out of something more than having to choose between doing something that you know looks terrible and will be completely embarrassed by (because the customer is a stubborn idiot with no artistic eye) and declaring bankruptcy. So the moral of the story is, if you want to have your cake AND eat it too, then you have to bake two cakes.
Successful photographers who are very well paid to do what they love greatly dispel this myth.
As of I now I shoot 100% Samsung...NX1000 and NX500 (28MB). Why? Because they weigh very little and they out-resolve 35mm film cameras, the zooms are incredible and image stabilized, and they shoot video if I ever decide I want it rather than RED or similar..
I'm 77...if I was shooting Leica M I'd certainly need CLAs periodically and (since I'm too good and too proud I don't use photo labs) I'd have to process and scan a lot of film.
PhotoShop is easy as pie. Step up to the plate.
I enjoy Nikon scanning but I'm running out of old film to scan.
.I love inkjet printing...and I'm good at it (and was in color darkroom), unlike most photo labs. I do believe screen monitors are better in every respect than prints.
My Samsungs won't live forever, but neither willl I or will anybody's Leica Ms, whose lenses are merely equal to Samsung zooms. I fully expect to replace the Samsungs (which are now orphans) with Sonys (which aren't quite as good at this moment, but will shortly be better) or some alternative before I'm 100,l at which time I'll have to spend a lot of time editing my 8G and perhaps more hard drive. Unless, of course, somebody loves my prints more than I do. Unless I decide that video is better than still.
When I shot 8X10 and, later, 4X5 , and later M4, I loved them. But I have better abilities now. BTW, DSLRs are about to become antiques...sell them ASAP
Take care of your health and your wimmen.
Has it already been said?:
You can either choose the Dark Side, or the Dark Slide, but not both.
I love my DSLRs. Pry them from my cold dead hands. I ordered a X Pro 3, bought the 35mm f2 lens. Even the whiz band EVF in this sucks. It does have the neat little square that pops up in the corner to use to confirm focus. Mirrorless is where DSLRs were around D2 era. Hopefully for me Nikon doesn't go broke and/or move all production to Thailand. I still love film, not so much 35mm, as it's hard to get 102,000 ASA, any color temperature slide film.I love using a DSLR. I can't quite get used to using a electronic veiwfinder. I don't think DSLRs are going anywhere soon. Mirrorless and Mirrored will exists side by side for quite a while, I don't think the mirror will go away completely. Much like the rangefinder is still around.
nyuk nyuk nyuk
I love my DSLRs. Pry them from my cold dead hands. I ordered a X Pro 3, bought the 35mm f2 lens. Even the whiz band EVF in this sucks. It does have the neat little square that pops up in the corner to use to confirm focus. Mirrorless is where DSLRs were around D2 era. Hopefully for me Nikon doesn't go broke and/or move all production to Thailand. I still love film, not so much 35mm, as it's hard to get 102,000 ASA, any color temperature slide film.
As of I now I shoot 100% Samsung...NX1000 and NX500 (28MB). Why? Because they weigh very little and they out-resolve 35mm film cameras, the zooms are incredible and image stabilized, and they shoot video if I ever decide I want it rather than RED or similar..
I'm 77...if I was shooting Leica M I'd certainly need CLAs periodically and (since I'm too good and too proud I don't use photo labs) I'd have to process and scan a lot of film.
PhotoShop is easy as pie. Step up to the plate.
I enjoy Nikon scanning but I'm running out of old film to scan.
.I love inkjet printing...and I'm good at it (and was in color darkroom), unlike most photo labs. I do believe screen monitors are better in every respect than prints.
My Samsungs won't live forever, but neither willl I or will anybody's Leica Ms, whose lenses are merely equal to Samsung zooms. I fully expect to replace the Samsungs (which are now orphans) with Sonys (which aren't quite as good at this moment, but will shortly be better) or some alternative before I'm 100,l at which time I'll have to spend a lot of time editing my 8G and perhaps more hard drive. Unless, of course, somebody loves my prints more than I do. Unless I decide that video is better than still.
When I shot 8X10 and, later, 4X5 , and later M4, I loved them. But I have better abilities now. BTW, DSLRs are about to become antiques...sell them ASAP
Take care of your health and your wimmen.
Hell yeah!vive nicéphore niépce !
Hell yeah!
I have to use digital at work because sometimes (almost every time) they want the results yesterday.
To relax I go back to my film cameras and can take my time, enjoy what I do and then hide in the darkroom. Far more satisfying than point, shoot and put the contents through a computer.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?