Your preferred method for capture?

Peter Langham · Oct 30, 2006

Film
100% B&W
70% 4x5
30% 6x4.5

Peter

kejack · Oct 31, 2006

Mostly 6x6 B&W film, some Pol Type 55 4x5 when I can afford it, a very little 35mm, and the rest (maybe 20%) digital capture.

cheers,
Ken

Don Bryant said:
Perhaps this is the first post to the hybrid photo website so I thought I would start by asking what is your prefered method for image capture?

Mine is still film for a lot of reasons, though I do have interest in digital capture.

Don Bryant

roteague · Nov 2, 2006

100% film, 99% Fuji Velvia, 1% B&W. I have found no compelling reason to shoot digital, for the same reason I find no compelling reason to eat at McDonalds. Like naturephoto1, I print on a Chromira, hence my reason visiting here.

jimcollum · Nov 2, 2006

roteague said:
100% film, 99% Fuji Velvia, 1% B&W. I have found no compelling reason to shoot digital, for the same reason I find no compelling reason to eat at McDonalds. Like naturephoto1, I print on a Chromira, hence my reason visiting here.

So far this site has been doing really well with it's lack of 'anti-digital' discussions. There's really no reason to be denigrating someone's choice of workflow.. that's something that can reamain on APUG.

ofofhy · Nov 2, 2006

I shoot 90% film, with the other 10% being digital snapshots with a P&S camera. I probably shoot 80% 35mm and 20% 120. I also shoot 90% B&W.

mortimer · Nov 7, 2006

Wow, for a hybrid photo forum, there's not a lot of love for digital here - more of a grudging acceptance. If anyone's still keeping track or cares:

Work: 100% dslr (newspaper job, like I had a choice)

Personal: 50/50, between dslr and 6x7 or 6x9 film (usually E6, sometimes b/w). Quite often I'll shoot the same scene with both cameras, the digi for web posting and the slide for future large print capabilities.

Bob Carnie · Nov 7, 2006

Film most of the time, phase back on hasseblad for specific projects and commercial work , seriously considering the Cannon 18mpixel unit for a documentary project.
I really like making complicated fibre prints. solarization and lith, then flat bed scanning and then printing the image on fuji flex or cibachrome or inkjet rag.
I will post some of this workflow in a separate thread , I think the results are very cool and have a unique look to them.

Katie · Nov 8, 2006

About 80% 4x5 film in pinhole cameras, and the rest is mostly 6x6 in an old Rollei, with some paper negatives in a full plate camera, and the old roll here and there in a toy camera.

digiconvert · Nov 10, 2006

Mainly BW film on my Bronica
35mm transparencies (I love Kodachrome !)
A little colour film- need to get into printing this a little more.

Phonecam for family shots.

troutmask · Nov 12, 2006

I use a DSLR (Canon 1D mk 11) for anything I would have done on a 35mm or mf camera and I use 5" x 4" B&W fim for anything I want to do where I require a view camera.
I would take everything on the view camera if I could walk around with it round my neck! And I would take everything digitally if I had a high resoltion digital back and a digital darkroom enlarger. Until that far of day, its film and chemicals for me.

GoGo · Nov 14, 2006

Film/Digital

Up until this year I have been 100% film with most of my work being transparancies in all formats.
After buying a Dslr early this year I have put about 12000 frames on the camera and I am still dragging the camera around everywhere I go something I long ago stoped doing. For me Digital has brought a renewed interest in photography.
At Photo Plus Expo I sat in on a class where contrast masks were discused durring a photoshop seminar. It is all new to me.

livemoa · Nov 14, 2006

100% film, both colour (mainly neg) and black and white. For a long time more b&w than colour, now probably 50/50 but moving back toward b&w again. It fluctuates.

Have a good colour lab here that does great, sorry, outstanding traditional prints from negs, waiting expectantly for results from a certain Canadian lab on Ilfords new fibre for Lambda.

Tom Kershaw · Nov 14, 2006

I shoot 100% film, mostly black & white, although have begun to use colour negative film more recently.

Michael Slade · Nov 21, 2006

99% Nikon D2x

.03% Mamiya 7II

.07% Korona 12x20 banquet camera (Efke 100...I want to scan a few of them...)

Papa Tango · Dec 16, 2006

This is beginning to depend on the venue and demands of the venue. First and foremost, I am and will remain a traditional (film) based photographer for my serious personal work. Most of what I do in this is MF or LF, and monochrome with a smattering of transparency. 35mm has been reconciled to certain forms of documentation, by customer demand.

For the past 6 years, it has been necessary to scan most of the 35mm work, and some of the MF production. He who pays the bill makes the rule... Until recently, I have been able to skate by with a Minolta Dimage 3.1mp at to feed the small niche of "quickie" captures for web use and general family events. More serious stuff has been recorded on film and scanned. Interestingly the clients have not known the difference, except for a couple to wonder exactly how I get an equivalent 20+mp image to them...

New clients for publication work have started asking for RAW, adobe RBG, and EXIF so on and so forth... Workflow turnover times have demanded the "digital" capture solution, and my old friend Canon has stepped up to the task. Now the challenge becomes finding ways to fuse techniques together where and whenever appropriate. This ought to all prove interesting...

bob01721 · Dec 23, 2006

All film. Roughly 20% 35mm color, 70% 35mm B&W, 10% 4x5 B&W.

DanaK6JQ · Jan 3, 2007

Preferred method for capture

Snapshots are almost all digital. Remainder is primarily B&W, 6x4.5, 6x6 and 135, with a bias toward 6x4.5 lately.

garri · Jan 4, 2007

100% film, color chromes at present but keen to get into alt process contacts later in the year. 5x4 mainly though I have just got a 6x6 and may get round to shooting with it in the next few weeks. Came back to photography via DSLR and migrated "backwards" (general concensus of folks here on the Island :rolleyes: )

Gari

artonic · Jan 5, 2007

When...

practical: 35mm
intelectual: 120
nostalgic: 620
technical: 4x5
oh, well: digital

Charles Webb · Jan 5, 2007

I have a hard time breaking old habits, I use 100% film. I consider myself an old dog trying to learn new tricks.

rippo · Jan 8, 2007

if i had the means, i'd shoot digital as well as film. i can only 'afford' film right now. i've got about 40 film cameras in my collection, about 75% of them work, and i use at least 10 of them regularly.

snapshots on the family digicam.

60% b/w 35mm
15% color 35mm
10% b/w 120
5% misc formats (828, 127, 16mm etc)

scan, print, score!

Steve Bell · Jan 11, 2007

I shoot film, 35mm, 120 6x6 and 4x5, the format varies, but recently has been around 40% 35mm, 40% 120 and 20% 4x5. I probably used to shoot around 80% colour and 20% B&W, but since buying an R2400 printer and using with a fibre based gloss unglazed paper, the B&W has been so nice it's now around 70 - 80% B&W, and using mainly Ilford Delta 100 with some Fuji Acros 100 film.

Tom Kershaw · Jan 11, 2007

garri said:
100% film, color chromes at present but keen to get into alt process contacts later in the year. 5x4 mainly though I have just got a 6x6 and may get round to shooting with it in the next few weeks. Came back to photography via DSLR and migrated "backwards" (general concensus of folks here on the Island :rolleyes: )

Gari

I don't know why some people consider digital capture inherently more "forward" whatever that means.

DanaK6JQ · Jan 12, 2007

Shooting 120 vs 620

artonic wrote:

artonic said:
When...

intelectual: 120
nostalgic: 620

So this raises an interesting question. Since 120 and 620 is the same film on different spools, I'm guessing that the difference between intellectual and nostalgic shooting has something to do with the camera(s) you use to shoot the two?

I can certainly believe that the type of camera one shoots with can influence the outcome in non-technical ways. For example, I've found that people are often at greater ease when I shoot them with a MAT-124G than they are when I shoot them with a 35mm SLR. Something about the older camera that puts people at ease, perhaps it reminds them of their grandfather... I dunno.

Dana

rippo · Jan 12, 2007

when you shoot people with a TLR, they don't sometimes know you're shooting. coz you appear to be staring at the ground! when i was testing out my Yashica-44 at thanksgiving, my wife accused me of being very self-involved with my photography. she didn't believe i was actually photographing her cousin until i showed her how a TLR worked. she thought i was photographing the brickwork.

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