Why suggest physical violence against somebody?
Analogue Vs Digital yet again! wow!! :rolleyes:
So what if he thinks film is dead!
I bought a canon dslr recently and I will keep using it, but I'm also starting with film photography now. I have missed the whole film period because I am still young and grew up with digital photography.
It's like a person with a calculator hanging out a shingle I am a mathematician.
Look at figures for film sales, lab closings, and new film camera sales.
I just went through the digital vs. film debate in my head.
I could buy a new digicam like the EOS 550D for between $800 and $1,000.
Add in the cost of accessories. Then figure in the cost of consumables like paper and ink. (It costs over $50 to refill my printer!)
But, instead I bought TWO 35mm cameras and only paid approx. $60 for the lot. I bought an ENTIRE darkroom setup for $200. (Enlarger, tanks, trays, utensils & everything.) With approx. another $100 worth of consumables, I am already operational and making prints today.
For consumables, I can pay approx. $6.00 for each roll of film, about $40 for a pack of photographic paper and $50 for enough chemistry to process a whole boatload of film and prints, that comes out to just two refills of my inkjet printer, not including the paper I would buy.
Okay... So I can pay $460 for film or I can pay $1,000 for digital.
So, the way I look at it, I'm getting better quality for half the price. Once I added it up, it didn't take me long to decide.
There are still people who make Daguerreotypes! Those have been "dead" for over 100 years. Haven't they?
Don't forget to account for the cost of a fancy ink blurt printer capable of making black and white prints as good as a real print... Oh wait, there is no such thing at ANY price.
Don't forget to account for the cost of a fancy ink blurt printer capable of making black and white prints as good as a real print... Oh wait, there is no such thing at ANY price.
On Saturday I was given a huge cardboard box containing loads of boxed slides, made by my wife's parents. My job is to scan them and put them on disks so that all the sisters can have a copy.See if you can find a couple rolls of Kodachrome. Looking at those slides will
be a revelation.
Hi Gary,
the article was in the "Geelong Business News". This person is passing himself as someone who is an expert at photography. The fact that he obviously only uses the camera on Auto proves that he isn't. In fact he actually says in the article "this ensures that the camera does all the work, identifying the correct exposure for each shot." It's not the fact that he likes digital cameras, it's the fact that he is posing as a professional and braying that film is dead without the slightest bit of evidence provided to back him up, and that easily led people will listen to him because his article is in a magazine.
I am formulating a reply to this article which I will send to the magazine.
Mike
Here's something I find a little amusing (at first, I misread your post, I read "Look at... new film and camera sales.", but I thought I'd still post out of interest), the processing prices at my regular pro-lab have gone down over the past few years. I'm still working off of their '06 lab price list, and always get a plesant surprise when I collect. E6 4x5's are advertised at $8.50, but are now only $6.50 (less my VIP discount, and they come in at just $5 ea). All round their processing prices have dropped... it made me wonder if there isn't a stronger resurgance than we expect? Although, this lab is situated in the 'trendy faunky arty' end of 'alternative' old Melbourne
I think of 'prosumer' as being an adman's less-obvious adspeak for 'wannabe', but like many portmanteau words ('infomercial'), just naff.I'm grinding my teeth just thinking about how much I hate that whole 'prosumer' thing.
Used to live very close by until the trendies booted me out <sigh>..
I am formulating a reply to this article which I will send to the magazine.
Mike
I am fascinated by the camera that can recognise each face and adjust the exposure accordingly. Now that's an algorithm!
Hi John,
it seems to me that he's never even considered that he might get something special and maybe better if he turned the auto mode off and used his brain to decide what he wants and how he wants the result to look like. I know that you can get really good results just leaving the camera on auto, but sometimes if you are willing to experiment and set the aperture and shutter speed yourself, you can get a magic result. Not always, but sometimes, and for me that makes it worthwhile because if I do that, I've learned something.
Mike
...i still don't really know why it matters if someone leaves they camera on auto / program mode, or not, it doesn't make them a better or worse photographer ...
the general public doesn't really care much about the things you mention, they just want to push the button, and share images with their friends and family ...
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