I like film better. Lately I shoot film pretty much exclusively. With film I have more time. More time to enjoy myself, more time to create, more time to see and observe where I am.
The process is different, from winding the film, metering (I use spot meter and incident meter for my hasselblad and built in meter in pentax mx).
Some numbers. On my last 2.5 week holiday with my digital camera I took 2.5k photos. Or maybe even more, it was 1.5 years ago so I can't remember exact numbers.
Anyway, it took me 3 months to go over the photos, select the keepers and come back with 50 photos that were good, but I wasn't 100% happy with their look.
Now with film, I went on 2.5week holiday a week ago and I came back with 234 photos. 114 x 35mm photos (3 rolls) and 10 rolls of 120 film.
I will keep 80 photos. That's pretty much 1 photo out of 3. I say it's a good keeper rate. Not to mention that I spent more time enjoying my holiday, instead of being what a friend of my described, behaving like a dog in heat.
As for how many gigapixles something has and if it's obsolete or not. I say it's rubbish, gigapixels and perving at each of them doesn't say how good a photo is and if people will like it.
For example the below photo is a crop of a 35mm frame, I cropped out the infocus part as well, you can see a little bit of it left over in the bottom right corner.
Is that image good? I have no idea, but I like it, it brings out a sense of nostalgia in me and memories of this particular establishment.
It is out of focus, it is grainy. Would extra gigapixels make this photo better? Extra detail in the shadows?
For me it wouldn't, I like the photo how it is, blurry and contrasty.
As for info, it was shot on trix@EI800 and developed in Ilfotec DDX.
And if I need extra gigapixels, I shoot hasselblad.