Wonderful article about film

rbultman

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I agree with the overall sentiment expressed in the article. I've been using film cameras almost exclusively over the last two years. Although I feel like my technique has improved because of using film cameras, the biggest change for me is that I love photography again and I am having a ton of fun. I played with some of the new digital mirrorless cameras at CES this year and was stunned by the shear number of buttons and menus. I find the electronic viewfinders to be weird and laggy. Automatic to me means a camera with match needle metering and aperture priority!
 

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love live film thanks for sharing
 

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Yeah, that's an unusually good article that avoids most of the usual quagmires. I could find a few things to quibble with, but it's nice to see film treated in terms of its own virtues rather than as part of an either/or pissing contest between media.

I'm not sure about his point 9, though. Post-processing an image shot on film takes 30 seconds? I wish I were that efficient! The text makes me think that maybe he's comparing b&w to color postprocessing, rather than film to d*g*t*l---but in general I feel like "pulling 18 slides around" is a disease of digital post, not of digital capture. And he's not addressing wet printing at all, which as we all know is (1) fun^H^H^Hexquisite torture and (2) slow.

-NT
 

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Oh, dear. Sorry, Ann, but I'm going to have to be the curmudgeon contrarian here. I think the writer's epiphany had as much to do with going from an automatic everything camera to a fully manual camera as it did with going from digital to film. I do agree with his initial point that modern dslr's have changed the way photographers think and work. However, 35mm film cameras were certainly going that way. I have a Minolta Maxxum 7 and a Sony a850. They are very similar in operation. The biggest difference is that I can't chimp on the Maxxum. But it has just as many buttons and dials, and almost as many menu items. I can machine gun away (as long as I'm willing to re-load - granted) and let the camera do all the work and make all the decisions for me, just like the digital.

Perhaps it is/was the cost of film and processing that kept most photographers from doing that. But there are exceptions. National Geographic photographers would shoot and then cull through 1000s of slides for that one picture.
 
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Not too worry David . Just thought it was an interesting switch for a change.

I agree with modern film cameras ,too many whistles and bells.

My f100 was an example , although I never really used many
 

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Thanks for sharing!
 
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