Your preferred method for capture?

[abruzzi]

I go back and forth. Right now, mostly digital because the level of effort is lower, and work is kicking my a$$. But most of the time I still prefer film (and in the last couple of years mostly large format.)

This past June I took a week vacation so I didn't lose it* and went for a drive through Colorado, Utah, and Arizona (starting from my home in Southern New Mexico.) I took three cameras--a Sinar Norma 4x5, a Pentax MZ-S, and a Pentax K-1ii. All three got used heavily, but I usually scouted with the K-1ii and the MZ-S (they use the same lenses, so can share a bag), and If I found something worth dragging the big camera out for, I'd go back and lug the sinr to the location to take a shot or two.

In July I did a week long motorcycle trip through NM. Since it was a crazy hot week (100+ temps except in Red River), I was less amenable to hassle, and weight and size were important, so I took a Sony NEX-6 with a few cheap Chinese manual focus lenses, and that was it, and I still got some great shots.

* "lose it" as in I couldn't carry a leave balance past June, but also "lose it" in the sense that wanted to yell at anyone that came into my office.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Capture? I photograph and release. I never subject the subject to captivity.

 

[jtk]

fwiw the topic of this thread is nominally Digital Cameras and Capture.

I have rarely shot film since I acquired my long-ago Pentax K20D. The viewfinder was awkward because it was small (as were the Leica F models I loved for years). Even with that old Pentax I was able, without much PS, to print beautiful 30" prints. Today my favorites are a now discontinued Samsung NX5 (25mp) and an astounding Pentax K70 (arguably 30mp). The Pentax has a huge prism finder that is brighter/better than that of any Canon/Nikon/Leica/Olympus DSLR....and being Pentax it distinctive and beautiful color-wise. Because I want control over prints I print my own (Canon Pro10).

Frankly, I don't understand why anyone shooting film would allow a lab to do the printing. That might be the reason professional quality labs have mostly vanished over the last two decades (can't blame Kodak for that).