What percentage of your photography is with film?

rayonline_nz · Dec 30, 2016

Any film, color or b/w.
Difficult with professional working photographers. Include or exclude. Leave that up to you.

I stuffed up. Treat the first option as "UP TO 100%".

Vonder · Dec 30, 2016

100% of my photography is with film. The rest I consider masturbation.

keenmaster486 · Dec 30, 2016

I use film for 100% of what I consider photography... I'm not counting, for instance, taking pictures casually with my phone.

flavio81 · Dec 30, 2016

99%. 1% is digital, for trivial stuff.

rayonline_nz · Dec 30, 2016

You guys made that a bit easier with "my photography". So that can excludes coffees and lunches that people ask me to photograph them or Christmas or New Years, Christmas parades, birthday and other anniversaries etc. For me that is a 50/50.

If I had to include those things. 20%. They asked you cos you know something about photography. They want the pictures one way or another. Ok, maybe not include coffee at lunch. But if visitors arrive or you see family and friends they want anniversaries, holidays and other events captured.

rayonline_nz · Dec 30, 2016

flavio81 said:
99%. 1% is digital, for trivial stuff.

Family holidays trivial too? Personally at times when you go out with other people it can be trivial but what if it is your own family and children and those captured memories?

Sirius Glass · Dec 30, 2016

macfred · Dec 30, 2016

Sirius Glass said:
100%

same here !

Dali · Dec 30, 2016

What percentage of your film photography is with film?

Could it be different from 100%???

Luckless · Dec 30, 2016

If we go with the threat title instead of the poll title...

What metric are you measuring by?

By number of photos taken? By number of photos kept? By number of photos shared and displayed? By outings or projects shot on a specific camera? (Are we including or excluding highly technical photography?)

By number of photos taken then for me it very obviously rounds off to 100% digital.

Photos kept/shared with people, probably around 90% digital, but mostly sports stuff posted for friends.

Outings and projects in the last year? That's got to be about 70-80% film, in part because I've been pushing myself to play with it more and build up a catalog of negatives to work with.

In general I expect it will eventually settle around 50-50 for projects. They're different mediums that serve different purposes for what I do, and I greatly enjoy having lots of options to choose from.

antmar · Dec 30, 2016

100% of course. I have a DSLR but I really don't know where it is.

cliveh · Dec 30, 2016

What percentage of your film photography is with film?

As already stated, how could it be different to 100%

Clue:- film photography with film.

Sirius Glass · Dec 30, 2016

I heard that DSLR made excellent bookends and door stops. They can also be used to chock wheels while a vehicle is having the tires changed. My girlfriend uses them as weights for pressing flowers.

RPC · Dec 30, 2016

Almost 100% since I occasionally use a point & shoot digital camera for snapshots, but if I want anything of quality, which is just about everything, film.

Old_Dick · Dec 30, 2016

A happy 100%

rayonline_nz · Dec 30, 2016

Dali said:
What percentage of your film photography is with film?

Could it be different from 100%???

Oopsie ...

rayonline_nz · Dec 30, 2016

Luckless said:
If we go with the threat title instead of the poll title...

What metric are you measuring by?

By number of photos taken? By number of photos kept? By number of photos shared and displayed? By outings or projects shot on a specific camera? (Are we including or excluding highly technical photography?)

By number of photos taken then for me it very obviously rounds off to 100% digital.

Photos kept/shared with people, probably around 90% digital, but mostly sports stuff posted for friends.

Outings and projects in the last year? That's got to be about 70-80% film, in part because I've been pushing myself to play with it more and build up a catalog of negatives to work with.

In general I expect it will eventually settle around 50-50 for projects. They're different mediums that serve different purposes for what I do, and I greatly enjoy having lots of options to choose from.

To me I would think it means all the photographs taken that you yourself view and appreciate it (printed or not) and is provided to other people so they can view it in whatever method. Email, website, TV screen etc but excluding chit chats, selfies, coffee and lunches, that really nice top on the shop's rack etc. It could be a friend's wedding, a friend's child's birthday or the Christmas parade cos they are a bit more significant memories for yourself or others. If digital wasn't invented you would still have to photograph that with a film camera. You wouldn't just attend the event and not take any photo's. If you attended someone's wedding and you really just went there just to attend the event then by all means don't include it.

Ces1um · Dec 30, 2016

my photography is with film. I take pictures with my phone for communication purposes only. Like, is this the right cereal you want dear? Look at the mess your dog made...etc... Anything even slightly artistic or worthwhile is done with my film cameras. Everything else is deleted by end of day.

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I should point out that I'm not being a film snob here. My only digital camera other than my go pro is my blackberry's camera and it's fairly atrocious. I find it joyless and frustrating to use so I only use it for communication purposes. If I had an awesome dslr I still probably wouldn't use it though. I really like the anticipation of waiting to get my photos back from the lab a week later. I enjoy the process of taking a photo as much as the outcome, maybe even more so. If I went digital I'd probably be the kind of guy who has to buy that new digital leica M that comes without a screen.

Andrew O'Neill · Dec 30, 2016

I use 100% of film for film photography...

removed account4 · Dec 30, 2016

it depends
while i am not worried about film photography v photography
a portion is done with film, a portion is done with coated paper, glass, plastic or metal as well
and i shoot professionally which is mostly digital. i am also shooting with a digital camera
and converting that digital file into a paper or over head transparency negative ( via copy shop )
and making cyanotypes or film based sun prints with them. i've been making xerox paper negatives
for a few years now, waxing them and making cyanotypes with them, and only started recently making
sun prints with transparency negatives made with a copy machine. i really can't complain, it is a lot of fun.
the straight digital for clients is a lot of fun too.

Helios 1984 · Dec 30, 2016

I would say something like 65% at the moment.

rayonline_nz · Dec 30, 2016

Ces1um said:
my photography is with film. I take pictures with my phone for communication purposes only. Like, is this the right cereal you want dear? Look at the mess your dog made...etc... Anything even slightly artistic or worthwhile is done with my film cameras. Everything else is deleted by end of day.

I agree entirely. Take a photo of this garment in the store and think it over. Take a photo of this tourist map in case I get lost. Take a photo of my lunch for social media and tell people highly recommended fantastic meal. Take a photo of my pot plant and go to the garden store to ask for advice.

I guess for me is, photography isn't just about me what I do in my own time hiding away. Photography is also what you do for other people. So holiday photo's, kids soccer game / birthday parties, a friends wedding maybe not that cos they have a hired professional photographer but long time friends family not seen that just happen to catch up at the venue or maybe just yourself or your family with the couple and or their family etc... Ie - if digital wasn't invented photographs that you would still take.

rayonline_nz · Dec 30, 2016

Andrew O'Neill said:
I use 100% of film for film photography...

Hey enough haha. Oopsie. They don't have a edit function.

Ko.Fe. · Dec 30, 2016

It is easy if it is 100% this or that. But I'm not so primitive and limited.
What is photography? Pressing shutter release button? If so, I'm 90 % digital.
Or photography is in prints? If so, I'm 90 % film.
Or is photography something I like. It is 99% darkroom prints on FB paper.

MattKing · Dec 30, 2016

rayonline_nz said:
Hey enough haha. Oopsie. They don't have a edit function.

You can "Report Post" to ask a moderator to edit it for you.
But right now it is more fun .
Other than pros who have a film component to their work, and probably have numbers as part of their business, I expect most of us who use both won't have a reliable way to answer your question. For me, the choice of medium is dictated by a whole bunch of factors that vary with the circumstances, and I definitely don't keep track of the numbers.
I get joy from both film and digital, but I definitely get a lot more joy from film.
And a question: for those who work in the hybrid world, like those who make digital inter-negatives and then contact print using traditional processes, how do you track their percentages?

What percentage of your photography is with film?