Film or digital photography?

[Elan_Andar]

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I use a M2 for practising film photography. But then I have the film scanned for further processing on the pc. I wonder: is this film photography or is this digital photography?

Edited October 21, 2022 by Elan_Andar

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[convexferret]

Why do you care? Serious question.

Would it make you feel better if the consensus was Film or if the consensus is Digital? Would that not perhaps reveal something more important about why you ask the question?

 

If I took a photograph on film but instead of printing it or scanning it I got a talented artist to paint a copy of the negative on my wall. Am I now a painter? What if I photocopied my negative, what am I now? And should I be worried about people in this forum judging me for doing it?

Edited October 21, 2022 by convexferret

[spydrxx]

This sounds like a trolling question. Anyway, the answer is YES!😁

[250swb]

It's kind of like worrying that when a negative is printed onto photographic paper it then becomes coated paper photography. 

[Doug A]

One common term for this approach is hybrid photography. 

If the question is whether a discussion of this approach belongs in the LUF Film or Digital forum it definitely belongs in the Film forum. 

[tommonego@gmail.com]

I don't think it matters at all. If you photograph your negatives, you are committing to use them on line or print them with pigment ink jet hopefully on archival paper. I gave donated my darkroom equipment to a school when I moved into a house where I couldn't setup a darkroom. I have also been printing ink jet for 20+ years and I like my results on inkjet better than silver printing. I also know pigmented inkjet will last longer than tradional color papers. I just hope with more people taking up film photography that a new purest attitude doesn't develop.