Guest Metroman Posted July 17, 2007 Share #21 Posted July 17, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) maybe the statement is not complete and we could expect something like:...prefer film but use digital :-) :D :D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 Hi Guest Metroman, Take a look here Most Photographers prefer film. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
pluton Posted July 18, 2007 Share #22 Posted July 18, 2007 Yeah, I prefer film: Kodachrome 25, Panatomic-X, Agfa 25 and 100. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanG Posted July 18, 2007 Share #23 Posted July 18, 2007 Well here is what Eliot Elisofon wrote in 1944. It is almost like he was asking for a high quality digital p&s back in 1944. Quoted from this site: The Future of Photography as predicted in 1944 _____________________ I FEEL THAT the camera finds its main importance as a recording and communicating mechanism, and I should like to see it develop until it takes its place with the pencil and the typewriter as an instrument of our everyday language. Photography should be taught in the schools along with penmanship as part of postwar education's expansion. It is possible to perfect the camera to the point where it will become an automatic instrument which will focus, expose and process the film by the mere push of a button. In this way we will be able to realize a medium possessing an immediacy between seeing and recording unachieved by any other art. I would like to see the camera and photographic material so refined that we need never use anything larger than a miniature camera exposing single frames of 16 mm film. For this we need grainless film with dyes rather than silver particles as the sensitive medium. The camera should have a built-in lens turret, mounting a wide angle, normal and telephoto lens, a photoelectrically controlled lens diaphragm and an automatic dry processing chamber. A camera of this sort could be easily carried about along with a plentiful supply of film. You wouldn't have to wait for results. And it would never need intrude itself upon the scene being photographed, leaving reality unchanged. There should be color film with greater latitude and speed and controlled brilliance, as well as the black-and-white which will do for most purposes. This extreme simplification will bring photography to everybody. It will leave the photographer free to develop his creative and esthetic principles. And art, if it is to come from photography, will come out of the meaning of the photograph and the greatness of the observation of the photographer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tummydoc Posted July 18, 2007 Share #24 Posted July 18, 2007 Call me a skeptic as a result of years of reading study results on a daily basis where there are often completely opposing conclusions, but I'd like to see the validated data from that "survey". If "most" professionals (in Europe or wherever) still "prefer" film, then they must have enormous caches of it in their frigidaires or buy it on the black market because photo retailers report film sales down to a trickle compared to the past, and film labs catering to professionals (speaking of N. America) are closing down in epidemic proportions. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flavio Posted July 18, 2007 Share #25 Posted July 18, 2007 Alan, thanks for sharing that bright expectation. Next week I'll be in the Herefordshire in order to breath (almost) the same air did Mr Alfred Watkins, a photo pioneer in the '20s. Some of the old Master may still teach something. Click on BoxCameras.com - Watkins Bee Exposure Meter, early 1900s Alfred Watkins or Watkins speed list, watkins bee exposure meter instruction manual, user manual, free PDF manual, free manuals if you may be interested to know more. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hankg Posted July 18, 2007 Author Share #26 Posted July 18, 2007 Call me a skeptic as a result of years of reading study results on a daily basis where there are often completely opposing conclusions, but I'd like to see the validated data from that "survey". If "most" professionals (in Europe or wherever) still "prefer" film, then they must have enormous caches of it in their frigidaires or buy it on the black market because photo retailers report film sales down to a trickle compared to the past, and film labs catering to professionals (speaking of N. America) are closing down in epidemic proportions. What photographers "prefer" and what they are required to supply clients maybe very different. A photographer who prefers film may be shooting 90% digital because of client requirements. Some only shoot film for personal projects. Some may have marked they prefer film but maybe haven't actually used any for commercial work in years but are intending to use it in some future project they hope to do (like the novel the ad copywriter has been intending to write for years). Whenever they do surveys about public or educational programming in the US it seems educational programming has a bigger audience in surveys then in real life, as people like to respond with what they perceive to be the answer that re-enforces a superior self-image. They maybe watching American Idol every night but in the survey at least they prefer more erudite fair. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tummydoc Posted July 18, 2007 Share #27 Posted July 18, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) I think you have touched on the truth. An article could be entitled: "99% of men prefer to be handsome, muscular, rich and able to compel every woman of their choosing to submit willingly and eagerly" and have equal import in the real world to the article quoted in the original posting Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxspbr Posted July 20, 2007 Share #28 Posted July 20, 2007 Yeah, I prefer film: Kodachrome 25, Panatomic-X, Agfa 25 and 100. Panatomic-X?! It is the best film I ever used! Unhappy when I started with photography (circa 1986) it was in its last days of glory. But a marvelous film, very fine grain, easy to enlarge, a very special look. And easy to make slides, too. Martin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucklik Posted July 21, 2007 Share #29 Posted July 21, 2007 There is a Future of film article on the Ilford website. Welcome to ILFORD PHOTO ;-) Luc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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