Digital or Film who uses what and how much of each

[stoneylonesome]

Just curious as to what most of you shoot . All digital, all film, or a combination of each, I've pretty much gone all digital, still have about 3 rolls of undeveloped film in the frig. :lol: :lol:

[Moppie]

Whats "film" :?:

[steven]

I'm guessing that most responses will be digital,
given that this is "Canon Digital Photography Forums". :twisted:

[stoneylonesome]

I'm guessing that most responses will be digital,
given that this is "Canon Digital Photography Forums". :twisted:

you may be right, but I know of a few people that still like film, and do use it. I myself like the instant gratification and control I have with digital, and yet I still take out my film SLR and wonder if I should use it, course it goes right back in the bag :lol: :lol:

[enigmatic]

I've been all digital since getting the 10D in April. My EOS 30 is gathering dust in the cupboard. Must dig it out and use the B&W film I have in the fridge :D

[aam1234]

stoneylonesome that's almost an offensive question.

Seriously, let me bore you as to why I like digital (long story, so get popcorn).

I was into photography since I was a little kid, really little. We are talking about 8-10 years old kid. Got that little box that can capture photos...at that age, it's like magic.

Grown up now. Trying & trying to get half decent photo with film...no such luck. Composition stinks...definitely. But what about color? why does it always look so washed out?

Then digital came about!

And everybody lived happily ever after.

[Vegas Poboy]

I still use film for school & I love the true B&W & E-6 over digital even with my 20D I guess I have soem old school in me. :)

[Jesper]

Since I got my 10D about a year ago, I've only used my EOS 30 (Elan 7E) a few times, for example to see how my 17-40 L works on a full frame camera. 17mm is REALLY wide on a full frame camera... :)

[Sam North]

I'm just getting back to shooting a little film. This morning I've been dusting down the EOS 50 and getting used to the AA battery grip I've just bought for it.

Here's why I'm shooting film again (see http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=44630):

The disadvantages of small format DSLRs include, their cost compared to 35mm, image cropping (there goes your wide-angle prime!), significantly reduced dynamic range that struggles with the highlights, limiting image size for larger digital prints (300D, 10D, 20D, etc), dust on the sensor and unacceptable sensor aberrations.

Also, channel-splitting digital images for B&W filter effects does not compare favourably with film – the results tend to look a little blotchy at times due to unavoidable interpolation. Black and white prints from colour negative scans manipulated in my image-editing software are effective and very hard to beat.

I use Fuji Reala and overexposing this film a little brings on shadow detail very nicely and has virtually no effect on the highlights. So I'm tempted to prefer negative film because it clearly handles the hightlights much better, and the grain of Reala is not that noticeable in my scans (which are bigger than my 300D images) even in areas of continuous tone. It's worth remembering that grain can be relatively easily smoothed out in very large prints (I could use Neat Image (http://www.neatimage.com) if I needed to.)

In a nutshell, film does a great job with better dynamic range and grain is not a problem unless you're going to get unrealistically close to the print!

Sam

[tommykjensen]

I have an EOS 33 date film body but I have not used it for 2 years.

[Alan Neilson]

I've been using both up untill I got my 10D in August, before that I had a G2, but have been using both today mainly to try and finish of the film in the camera, but also because of the wide angle element.

I think film still has the edge, although, the gap is closing, and if you are not wanting anything more then 10*8 then someing of six meg is fine, and as it has allready been said, you have the convence of digital, and knowing what you the shoot that you want right there.

Think I will stick with both for now, although most will be done on digital I think

[thomascanty]

I voted for #3, though for me it's really closer to 90% digital and 10% film.

[stoneylonesome]

I voted for #3, though for me it's really closer to 90% digital and 10% film.

Makes you wonder what the future of film is really going to be, is it going the way of the 5-1/4 floppy :lol: :lol: or are there enough diehards and other applications to keep it going? I know Kodak cut way back on there film end as far as staff goes and have put alot more money into there digital end. including there real high end digital camera that excepts the Canon or Nikon lenses. guess they know where the future lies :P

[jhankins]

I still shoot black and white 1600 in low light. I prefer it's grain structure to digital noise. I keep film as a tool in my tool box and don't discount it but certainly the vast majority of my work is digital capture. The film I send into the lab, process only, and scan the negatives. If I could get the look I want in digital capture, I'd do it as it would save me time and film costs.

As somebody already said, no surprises on the percentage of digital here in this forum.

:wink:

[CyberDyneSystems]

I alllways thought it was desireable when shooting to make sure there is no film or residue on your optics ???



:lol: :lol:

[stoneylonesome]

I alllways thought it was desireable when shooting to make sure there is no film or residue on your optics ???



:lol: :lol:

It's an ole Hollywood movie trick, to soften the image of some of the hard looking actresses, only they smear vasaline on the lens. :lol: :lol: :lol: