kivis Posted March 18, 2022 Share #1 Posted March 18, 2022 Advertisement (gone after registration) Who shoots only film? Who is brave enough these days to have rid themselves of their digital cameras for film only? Willing to concede having a smartphone as an exception. This is how I usually shoot: My M-A only and an iPhone for quickies. I still have my M-P type 240. But I am thinking of getting rid of it (except that I love it so much). Also trying to reconsider whether I need 5 lenses or less. But that might be a different discussion. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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adan Posted March 18, 2022 Share #2 Posted March 18, 2022 Well, in true medium-format I shoot only film. No 6x6 (or larger) sensors available - or ever likely to be. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Don't have a smartphone either. 13 Quote Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Don't have a smartphone either. ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/330790-who-shoots-only-film/?do=findComment&comment=4402737'>More sharing options...
madNbad Posted March 18, 2022 Share #3 Posted March 18, 2022 (edited) After several attempts to embrace digital photography, it occurred to me the only thing the Sony A7II was being used for was to digitize negatives. Kept the fabulous FE90 2.8 Macro, sold off the other lenses, battery grips and brackets. Currently I’m down to two film cameras, a Retina IIa and a M4 both equipped with a Reveni meter (one came from the OP) and a whole lot of Double X and Tri X in the refrigerator. Edited March 18, 2022 by madNbad 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huss Posted March 18, 2022 Share #4 Posted March 18, 2022 Yaa, I only use my Z7 to scan my film. I even bought a 24-70 Z lens for it, thinking it would make me use it. Nope.. I still have an M240, love it as a digital camera, but also never use it. I do like it much more than the Z7 if that counts for anything! 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrogallol Posted March 18, 2022 Share #5 Posted March 18, 2022 I only use film for real photography. I have a Fuji X Pro 1 body with some adaptors just to quickly test lenses, but not for actual photography. Digital is so restrictive, you can only use your pictures on a computer. With film you can do all the things possible in a darkroom and if you need to put some pictures on a computer you can always scan the film or a print. I believe there is a digital enlarger to make darkroom prints from a digital projection, but I have not seen any details of it or heard from someone using it? Anyone here making darkroom prints from digital negatives ? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans-Dieter Gülicher Posted March 18, 2022 Share #6 Posted March 18, 2022 I like to produce high quality 4k HDAV-shows. From my point of view this is the best way to show my pictures in top quality on my monitor (4500 x 3000 px, ADOBE rgb). If really needed a film (???) there exist my old and famous NIZO. Regards Hans Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mute-on Posted March 18, 2022 Share #7 Posted March 18, 2022 Advertisement (gone after registration) I have three Leica M bodies, all film. I don’t have any digital Leicas. If I want to take photos as an activity (because the act of photography is so enjoyable) I use my Leicas. I have a p&s digital to capture events and memories. Same outcome, different process. To me, a film camera is a “real” camera. I can’t conceive of a digital camera in that way. It’s a computer with a lens attached. I grew up with film, so I know I’m archaic in that way … 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBestSLIsALeicaflex Posted March 18, 2022 Share #8 Posted March 18, 2022 Never went digital. Still shoot about 150-250 rolls of B&W film a year. Bulk load, develop at home ect. Just don't like the B&W digital look. 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danner Posted March 18, 2022 Share #9 Posted March 18, 2022 With Leica, I shoot film exclusively. For digital, I have an extensive Nikon system, which is far more versatile. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrogallol Posted March 18, 2022 Share #10 Posted March 18, 2022 2 hours ago, Mute-on said: I have three Leica M bodies, all film. I don’t have any digital Leicas. If I want to take photos as an activity (because the act of photography is so enjoyable) I use my Leicas. I have a p&s digital to capture events and memories. Same outcome, different process. To me, a film camera is a “real” camera. I can’t conceive of a digital camera in that way. It’s a computer with a lens attached. I grew up with film, so I know I’m archaic in that way … Agree. I see a digital camera as a computer with a lens attached, and a Leica digital camera can’t be any better than any other digital camera. 90 year old Leica film cameras are in daily use, at least by me. I don’t think the world will see many or any 90 year old digital cameras being used in the year 2100. Perhaps this forum should be 99% film oriented with a 1% corner tucked away somewhere for those interested in digital? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
arichter Posted March 18, 2022 Share #11 Posted March 18, 2022 After having a Leica M262 for about 5 years I went back to shooting film only. Leica for 35mm and Rolleiflex for medium format. Using different film stocks is so much fun. I shoot b/w developing at home and slide film which I project. Scanning with a Canon RP but Dwayne's scanning service is great and I started using them to scan when they process my slide film. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted March 18, 2022 Share #12 Posted March 18, 2022 95% of my photos are with film cameras, either Leica, Nikon, or medium format cameras of various types. I have a few 4x5 cameras as well. An Olympus 35RC, XA, or Ricoh GR1 are my pocket cameras that I carry everyday. My biggest problem is in having too many cameras loaded with film. I have a Z7 that's used for scanning my film, and an M10, both great cameras and I wouldn't say I couldn't use them but I just don't feel bonded with them creatively. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madNbad Posted March 18, 2022 Share #13 Posted March 18, 2022 A lot of my decision came down to weight. For a short time I had a Nikon Df, which produced a very nice image, it was used almost exclusively with Ai-S lenses. I tried a Tamron 15 to 30 zoom. Even with the seatbelt sized Peak Design strap it felt like carrying a cinderblock around. The Sony and the Loxia lenses were better but because of the miserable battery life, a battery grip was necessary. Not quite a cinderblock, more like a pile of bricks. This outweighed, literally, the advantage of high ISO, the ability to capture almost unlimited images not to mention a number of metering modes or programs. The other day, I was at a local park with the M4. I was talking with a young woman who was using her fathers Canon 5D and a zoom lens. The first thing she commented on was how heavy it was compared to the K1000 she normally used. The other part is feeling involved with making the image. The owner of a local repair shop has his joke about the lazy persons guide to photography: Auto Exposure, Auto ISO, wander around until the card is full, delete all but the three actually good images. I like metering the scene and learning how the film preforms with different filters or changes in development. I'm not under a deadline and I don't need hundreds of images a day. I do it for enjoyment and that's the best reason I can think of. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ornello Posted March 18, 2022 Share #14 Posted March 18, 2022 Yep. Got all this Leicaflex gear (6 bodies, 8 lenses). 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adan Posted March 18, 2022 Share #15 Posted March 18, 2022 8 hours ago, Pyrogallol said: Digital is so restrictive, you can only use your pictures on a computer. Hunh? Not that it detracts in any way from shooting film (in fact I think it enhances film), but I print my digital pictures right alongside my film pictures. Because I scan my film, myself, to digital, and have ever since about 1994. My book above uses scans (like most other photographic books/publications produced in the past 35 years or more). I've sold thousands of dollars worth of archival-pigment inkjet prints (in both B&W and color, up to A2 size) from both film and digital originals. With current double-weight, fiber-based, archival, eggshell-gloss inkjet papers, and 1440/2880-dpi 8-ink printers, they look beautiful - Ilford Galerie FB without the curl and drying time. Or in color, like dye-transfer prints from Kodachromes. it's simply ADA (analog-digital-analog) conversion. Like digitally-remastered vinyl records. It could be because I was "present at the creation" of ADA photographic reproduction, through working at newspapers since 1985. I watched (and learned) the whole development (hah!) of the process. My job in 1991-93, as Managing Editor of Photographers and Artists at The San Juan Star newspaper (Puerto Rico), was partly to oversee both the creation of a new 1000-square-meter darkrooms/studio complex (yay!). And the replacement of the antique analog color-separation/half-toning darkroom (which required 15 hours lead time to get from undeveloped slide film to printing plates) with a color-neg/scan/imagesetter process that took 80 minutes from camera to plate (assuming the laser imagesetter didn't jam ). I adopted it for my own work almost immediately (as soon as I could afford my own Nikon Coolscan) because I could see the writing on the wall, especially for color. Even with the cheesy 4-ink 300-dpi dye-ink printers of the era. I do know someone who makes enlarged negs from digital. But mostly for contact-printing with "alternative" processes like platinum prints. (That's my "1% digital" contribution here for the year. ) 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbertnl Posted March 18, 2022 Share #16 Posted March 18, 2022 Except for the smartphone: Yes I do! With a Leica M2 and, even more these days, with a Linhof Master Technika Classic and Rodenstock Apo-Sironar-S 150mm attached to it most of the time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
28framelines Posted March 18, 2022 Share #17 Posted March 18, 2022 I just posted about this on my Instagram. I was a hardcore Fuji digital photographer, and since I got my Leica MP and an iPhone 13 Pro, the iPhone has entirely replaced my Fuji for digital, and for “high quality images”, I only shoot the Leica MP with either HP5 or Portra 400. An example of the iPhone’s images shows just how filmic they can look: https://www.instagram.com/p/CbNHQpII40v/?utm_medium=copy_link but other than the iPhone, yes: fully film for me, and I cannot see myself going back any time soon. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rennrocky Posted March 18, 2022 Share #18 Posted March 18, 2022 Yes, Voigtländer, Hassi Leica, Minox and Linhof from 8x11 mm to 8X10 inch 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topsy Posted March 18, 2022 Share #19 Posted March 18, 2022 (edited) Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! There's room in my life for both film and digital. Edited March 18, 2022 by Topsy 10 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! There's room in my life for both film and digital. ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/330790-who-shoots-only-film/?do=findComment&comment=4403166'>More sharing options...
madNbad Posted March 18, 2022 Share #20 Posted March 18, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Topsy said: Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! There's room in my life for both film and digital Time to pack up the M2 and send it to Shintaro so it fits in with the rest of the bunch.😉 Edited March 18, 2022 by madNbad 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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