Do you shoot film?

I shoot both...but not a whole lot of film. I LOVE film, but without being able to develop it myself, i feel like it takes a lot of the creativity away from it

mxracer535 wrote in post #10651429
I shoot both...but not a whole lot of film. I LOVE film, but without being able to develop it myself, i feel like it takes a lot of the creativity away from it

word, im glad that my school has a darkroom so i can develop my rolls myself. it just sucks that color labs are so expensive to maintain so my school had to get rid of it.

If I'm taking photos for fun I use film, if I'm taking photos to get a photo of something I'll use digital just to make sure I get it.

I bought my third 35mm SLR over the weekend - a Zenit 12 XP with the previous two being an EOS 3000 I bought to see how I got on with film without spending much money (£10) which was followed by an EOS 33v (Elan 7N in the US) once I established I liked it. I've also got a Polaroid 635CL but the film is obscenely expensive now, especially considering how rubbish it is.
The Zenit won't be my last as I want something to shoot 120 and something to use Polaroid packfilm in.

I carry my EOS 1N more often than my digital slrs. I shoot lots of 35mm.

I shoot film almost exclusively for B/W.......always have my EOS 3 and a roll of HP5 on the go. I photograph whatever I find to photograph......lots of my daughter and her friends doing their thing and anything else I happen to spot.

I also use medium and very occasionally large format.....not enough hours in the day!

I am really surprised to see how many photographers on the board still shoot film. I see several are shooting film for B&W, are you making prints in a darkroom or scanning your film?
I guess I have always been a film photographer and also will be at heart. I have not shot hardly any in a long time. I really love B&W, and for many years that was my forte. I never have been able to get a black and white from digital that had the same look as film. If someone knows a secret let me know, like a good plugin for photoshop. I think a lot of it is digital B&W is just too "clean", no small imperfections and no grain. Grain looks different from noise, so if you "add noise" to a digital image it does not look the same. I have scanned B&W Tri-x negatives, and they look ok, but then again its a scan.
Digital B&W can be beautiful, its just different.

no1photo wrote in post #10655613
I am really surprised to see how many photographers on the board still shoot film. I see several are shooting film for B&W, are you making prints in a darkroom or scanning your film?
I guess I have always been a film photographer and also will be at heart. I have not shot hardly any in a long time. I really love B&W, and for many years that was my forte. I never have been able to get a black and white from digital that had the same look as film. If someone knows a secret let me know, like a good plugin for photoshop. I think a lot of it is digital B&W is just too "clean", no small imperfections and no grain. Grain looks different from noise, so if you "add noise" to a digital image it does not look the same. I have scanned B&W Tri-x negatives, and they look ok, but then again its a scan.
Digital B&W can be beautiful, its just different.

Hello

I do both, I'll scan some for my website, blog etc but I also still print in the darkroom too. I prefer the results from the darkroom every time but I do sometimes send digital files of film scans to Ilford for them to print and they're pretty good.

I know what you mean about digital B/W being too' clean'....good way to descibe it!
What I usually do is just use the photoshop filter that adds film grain. I tried the niks software but was too lazy to fathom it out and I find the photoshop film grain is ok. Certainly beats digi-noise!

Lizzy7 wrote in post #10656148
Hello

I do both, I'll scan some for my website, blog etc but I also still print in the darkroom too. I prefer the results from the darkroom every time but I do sometimes send digital files of film scans to Ilford for them to print and they're pretty good.

I know what you mean about digital B/W being too' clean'....good way to descibe it!
What I usually do is just use the photoshop filter that adds film grain. I tried the niks software but was too lazy to fathom it out and I find the photoshop film grain is ok. Certainly beats digi-noise!

I have a plugin for photoshop called silveroxide Tri-XEN. It does a pretty good job of translating a digital image into the tones of Tri-X, but I'm always on the prowl for other methods. Here is a link.....they make plugins to match different kinds of film.

http://www.silveroxide​.com/BWTech.htm

I'll try to post something in the next couple of days as a sample......

I currently only shoot film. I have a Canon Elan 7e. I mostly use my EF 50 1.4 and 70-200 f4. I shoot just about everything. My favorite film to use is Kodak Ektar 100 35mm. The grain is so fine and i love the colors and contrast of it, it also scans very compared to other films. I also use Kodak Portra NC on occasion. I started on film 7 years ago and i love the picture quality that you can get from it. Something that i don't see in digital. However i would love to have a DSLR i am just waiting for full frame to come down in price and when it does, i will plan to still continue to shoot film.