Your preferred method for capture?

[artonic]

120 film for Mamiya TLR, 620 film for Brownie Hawkeye Flash.

Actually haven't used the Brownie in a long time... I have a roll of exposed, undeveloped Verichrome Pan(!). I wonder what is the latent image-keeping ability? ha ha. Apparently you can respool 120 film onto a 620 reel. One of these days I must try that.

People do respond to the type or size of camera, and that can be seen in the expression or pose. Each camera has a different vibe which affects the photographer too, which impacts shooting choices. I'm not sure if this effect is a tactile response, or more of a conditioned, associative thing?

 

[3Dfan]

currently 100% film - mostly realist stereo slides

I have a question about digital though. Is it true that at high iso the digital slr cameras have cleaner, grainless image quality compared to 35mm? At what iso would the crossover typically occur?

 

[donbga]

Is it true that at high iso the digital slr cameras have cleaner, grainless image quality compared to 35mm? At what iso would the crossover typically occur?

No. Higher ISO settings produce more digital noise comparatively than lower ISO settings. The degree and rate of change depends upon the camera model, sensor size and length of exposure time. Long exposures create more digital noise and smaller sensors tend to be noisier. But a lot of the noise may be reduced by the camera capture software at the time of exposure, sometimes at the expense of reduced detail.

Noise can also be reduced in the post processing step with noise reduction software.

Don Bryant

 

[3Dfan]

Noise can also be reduced in the post processing step with noise reduction software.

Don Bryant

Am I correct in assuming similar software based corrections can be made to reduce film grain?

 

[donbga]

Am I correct in assuming similar software based corrections can be made to reduce film grain?

Noise reduction software isn't used for reducing film grain, however there is one product that I know of that can be used for reducing film grain, Grain Surgery.

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Don Bryant

 

[Jan Pedersen]

Don draged me over to this forum so i may as well post my prefered way of capture.
Film, film and film. Did digital for more than 5 years and never got anything to remember out of it. Still have a D100 and a couple of lenses but the D. gear is used only for ebay postings. Will never go back to small format digital. Medium? Perhaps but i don't think film will die before i do and i just love film and the exitement i get from developing a few sheets or a roll from a day outside and then later make a wet print from the best neg. Started doing film more than 30 years ago, getting back to film was great.
The reason i came here is my interest in Platinum Palladium. In order to get there i need to use digital film due to the format i use.

Good to see some familiar names here


Jan

 

[Dave Miller]

Don draged me over to this forum so i may as well post my prefered way of capture.
Film, film and film. Did digital for more than 5 years and never got anything to remember out of it. Still have a D100 and a couple of lenses but the D. gear is used only for ebay postings. Will never go back to small format digital. Medium? Perhaps but i don't think film will die before i do and i just love film and the exitement i get from developing a few sheets or a roll from a day outside and then later make a wet print from the best neg. Started doing film more than 30 years ago, getting back to film was great.
The reason i came here is my interest in Platinum Palladium. In order to get there i need to use digital film due to the format i use.

Good to see some familiar names here


Jan

Intersting post Jan, exactly my reason for being here too. I have just ordered chemicals for cyanotype prints, but that is simply the first step; learning to coat and process my own paper.

 

[Jan Pedersen]

Look forward to see your work Dave. It will also be a while before i am ready to work on Pd, need to build a light box first but got some good ideas here and on the APUG forum.


jan

 

[sanderx1]

Film, almost all 35mm. About 80% C41, 15% E6 and 5% traditional B&W. I don't own a non-digital darkroom. Would like to have a 6x6 (plus scanner) in a year or two.

 

[bobfowler]

I've pretty much given up on color negative film for 35mm since buying a D80. For B&W work, there is no substitute for film. I will use 35mm color neg when I want a certain "look", but most of my color stuff is better suited to digital capture. I really do like color neg in meduim format, but I'm scanning the negs and printing via inkjet or through an AGFA MSC-300 with a digital carrier.

 

[rippo]

interesting POV bob. i will probably end up that way too, when i can afford a proper digital SLR. i enjoy processing b/w film because it's so cheap and a thrill every time i open the tank. but sending my color film off to the one-hour (sorry, not as fancy as some folk around here) seems a bit pointless economically. i see a lot of digital color shots that i like, but whenever someone tries to fake black and white with digital, i can tell...well maybe not "whenever", i'm sure there's some i'm missing. but there's a cutting quality to it that i'm not fond of.

and besides, i have something like 40 film cameras, mostly low-end ebay acquisitions. i gotta use them for something!

 

[Kirk Gittings]

For all but the best commercial work, I prefer a DSLR. Actual ratios are about 80% DSLR to 20% LF film. For my personal art work, 100% 4x5 film.

 

[Charles Webb]

I am here hopefully to see if an old dog can learn some new tricks.

I have no digital experience, but have used film, 35 mm to 8x10 for many years.

 

[Anonymous]

All film (5X7, 4X5, 120, 35mm). 95% black and white...recently color neg.

Just ordered a 5D and am going to explore digital capture and digital enlarged negs.

 

[roy]

Still film, various formats but with cameras ageing and with one 35mm body very suspect, I am considering a digital SLR for colour macro work. I am intrigued to see what the effects will be when using my macro lens with a smaller sensor.

 

[df cardwell]

Can't bring myself to use the word, or think in terms of, "CAPTURE".

I'm a photographer, not a bounty hunter.

I use a variety of cameras, including digital. Whatever suits the needs of the client, or my mood.

 

[donbga]

Can't bring myself to use the word, or think in terms of, "CAPTURE".

I'm a photographer, not a bounty hunter.

Prior to digital photography making the scene photographers had been described as "hunters", notably by Susan Sontag and Rudolf Arnheim.

Armheim:
"The photographic documents are not the creations of an idealizing imagination that responds to the imperfections of reality with a dream of beauty. Instead, they are the trophies of a hunter who looks for the unusual in the world of what actually exists and discovered something exceptionally good." (1986, p.121) New esays on the psychology of art. Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press.

Don Bryant

 

[df cardwell]

Prior to digital photography making the scene photographers had been described as "hunters", notably by Susan Sontag and Rudolf Arnheim. (snip)

With respect, Don, I'm the one responsible for the pictures I make.

My first encounter with Arnheim was Visual Thinking; it was published as I headed for college. It's been a reference point for me over the years. A remarkable dialogue is possible if you read it in company with Margaret R. Miles, Image as Insight: Visual Understanding in Western Christianity and Secular Culture

That said, the place Photography holds in Arnheim's cosmology tells me much about Arnheim, but it does not hold any power over why, or how, I make pictures.

Photography, for me, has always been about relationship, the image offered to me by my subject. The image is both a document of our partnership and a self portrait. For me, Photography ( and Craft, in general ) transforms the practitioner.

Hunting, or Capturing, in my experience, is always intended to transform the victim.

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[donbga]

Prior to digital photography making the scene photographers had been described as "hunters", notably by Susan Sontag and Rudolf Arnheim. (snip)

With respect, Don, I'm the one responsible for the pictures I make.

My first encounter with Arnheim was Visual Thinking; it was published as I headed for college. It's been a reference point for me over the years. A remarkable dialogue is possible if you read it in company with Margaret R. Miles, Image as Insight: Visual Understanding in Western Christianity and Secular Culture

That said, the place Photography holds in Arnheim's cosmology tells me much about Arnheim, but it does not hold any power over why, or how, I make pictures.

Photography, for me, has always been about relationship, the image offered to me by my subject. The image is both a document of our partnership and a self portrait. For me, Photography ( and Craft, in general ) transforms the practitioner.

Hunting, or Capturing, in my experience, is always intended to transform the victim.

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Don,

I'm sorry that you inferred that I was suggesting that you are a hunter of photos, my point was that the photographer hunter analogy was around before the phrase 'digital capture' came into wide use.

Cheers,

Don

 

[df cardwell]

(snip) my point was that the photographer hunter analogy was around before the phrase 'digital capture' came into wide use.

Of course, yes, absolutely.

 

[photof4]

Both digital and film.

I would consider my self a hybrid. I shoot both digital and film evenly at 50%because I always have my Nikon D50 and either my Nikon F4 or one of my medium format cameras (Mamiya M645 1000s or my Bronica ETRSI) with me.

Photography is a hobby of mine so I can choose between the two mediums.

 

[jd callow]

photof4,
welcome to hybrid!

 

[toyotadesigner]

Either film or film or if it's a nice day: film.

Nikon F4s and other bodies and prime lenses from 20mm to 300mm, two Fuji 6x9 rangefinders, Rollei 35s, Minox. Coolscan 5000 for 35mm, the Coolscan 9000 for MF is still on the to-do-list.

Provia 100F, Velvia 100, Kodak BW400 CN and for 6x9 even Kodak TX400.

Digital? I don't see a real need to jump onto that waggon because nobody can write the equipment off as fast as digital loses value.

 

[copake_ham]

I mostly frequent the APUG site since I am almost exclusively a film shooter. But I figured it was time to check out what folks were up to over here.

While my much preferred form of "image capture" is film; I do scan them into RAW images for archiving and for subsequent posting into Galleries etc. as JPEGs.

As to the term "image capture". I do kind of bristle a bit when thinking in a film mindset - but have no problem when doing the occassional digital shooting. Nor do I find it troublesome when I scan a "film photo" into a "digital image"!

I guess the semantics follow the format?

 

[donbga]

Speaking of semantics, what the hell is copake ham?

Cheers,

Don Bryant