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Bit of an airy fairy flowery image to follow such a great street b&w  - CL CV 75 1.5

 

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I love this thread and learn so much from viewing everyones' photos regularly.  Yet so often when a photo catches my eye elsewhere on the forum I find it is from the "I Like Film" thread.

Why is that -- the colours film produces, the approach that film makes necessary, the skills of photographers who self-select as film users, pure happenstance?

Alas, all my film Leicas were long ago traded for upgrades to digital Leicas. 🤭

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2 minutes ago, rob_w said:

I love this thread and learn so much from viewing everyones' photos regularly.  Yet so often when a photo catches my eye elsewhere on the forum I find it is from the "I Like Film" thread.

Why is that -- the colours film produces, the approach that film makes necessary, the skills of photographers who self-select as film users, pure happenstance?

Alas, all my film Leicas were long ago traded for upgrades to digital Leicas. 🤭

Do not say 'alas'.

Film and digital photography are different media. Both have their qualities and limitations.

Digital photography can attain very high quality, just as film photography can.

Disclaimer: All of my film cameras are gone too, including the Zeiss Ikon which I loved. Currently, I am using a Leica Q, Leica CL and Fuji XT-1.

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15 minutes ago, rob_w said:

I love this thread and learn so much from viewing everyones' photos regularly.  Yet so often when a photo catches my eye elsewhere on the forum I find it is from the "I Like Film" thread.

Why is that -- the colours film produces, the approach that film makes necessary, the skills of photographers who self-select as film users, pure happenstance?

Alas, all my film Leicas were long ago traded for upgrades to digital Leicas. 🤭

Sounds like time to get yourself a film body then😁!  

 

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24 minutes ago, Viv said:

Do not say 'alas'.

Film and digital photography are different media. Both have their qualities and limitations.

Digital photography can attain very high quality, just as film photography can.

Disclaimer: All of my film cameras are gone too, including the Zeiss Ikon which I loved. Currently, I am using a Leica Q, Leica CL and Fuji XT-1.

Digital photography can match and surpass the highest quality available from film photography,  depending on your post-processing skills. 

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2 hours ago, rob_w said:

I love this thread and learn so much from viewing everyones' photos regularly.  Yet so often when a photo catches my eye elsewhere on the forum I find it is from the "I Like Film" thread.

Why is that -- the colours film produces, the approach that film makes necessary, the skills of photographers who self-select as film users, pure happenstance?

Alas, all my film Leicas were long ago traded for upgrades to digital Leicas. 🤭

I fully agree that many of what is posted on "I like Film" is dazzlingly satisfying. I've been shooting film, too, and sometimes posting there as well, and in a few months, I'll be doing my own dark room developing/scanning. 

I think one of the most important things film can teach/remind us of is the broad range of tones and luminance. Of course, we can't, nor should we need to, use the "zone system" per se with digital, but there are many ways to appreciate the full range of representations in Camera Raw and especially in curves and levels in Photoshop. Shooting and developing film sensitizes us to these possibilities, I believe.

Film helps us remember that what we rather industrially call "post-processing" should really be about developing. Putting away presets and "workflow" and thinking hard about tonal values is like riding a fixed gear bike: it forces us to practice the most essential element of our craft.

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Back to showing CL photos !!!

I've fallen in love with the pastry chef.
CL + 18-56

 

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Norway (red) and White Pines    18-56

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5 hours ago, rob_w said:

I love this thread and learn so much from viewing everyones' photos regularly.  Yet so often when a photo catches my eye elsewhere on the forum I find it is from the "I Like Film" thread.

Why is that -- the colours film produces, the approach that film makes necessary, the skills of photographers who self-select as film users, pure happenstance?

Alas, all my film Leicas were long ago traded for upgrades to digital Leicas. 🤭

If you are referring to the "Favorite Images" page, understand that the first section is "owned" by film shooters, who "like" a lot of images. Some are wonderful, but many are mediocre. Having shot both film and digital, I can tell you that both can produce great results, but digital can do it better, faster and easier.  You can even make it emulate film, if you so choose. I cannot imagine going back to film. The tedium of scanning alone would put me off photography forever.

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2 hours ago, robgo2 said:

If you are referring to the "Favorite Images" page, understand that the first section is "owned" by film shooters, who "like" a lot of images. Some are wonderful, but many are mediocre. Having shot both film and digital, I can tell you that both can produce great results, but digital can do it better, faster and easier.  You can even make it emulate film, if you so choose. I cannot imagine going back to film. The tedium of scanning alone would put me off photography forever.

It's true that film photographers dominate the Favorite Images, but he was referring to this incredibly high level and active thread. And just to say that Adam Miller, a successful professional who contributes significantly to this thread, years ago gave up digital to return to film. Hasn't done badly by the switch. Yes, you can sort of redo digital to be "film-like", but it's not the same, either in aesthetic or in approach. 

 

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Tranquility by the lake (CL + 18-56)

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City of broad shoulders from the park (CL + 18-56)

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Flowers in the hothouse (CL + 18-56)

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Another flower! (CL + 18-56)

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Another flower - hopefully someone knows what they all are because I don't! (CL + 18-56)

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Could it be an orchid? (CL + 18-56)

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