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11-09-2019, 03:20 PM - 1 Like   #46
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QuoteOriginally posted by titrisol Quote
That was it! Full and Half plate!

I remember in the old Ansel Adams books the mention of miniature format.... I guess that will make millenials cry
Millennials here meaning anyone born after 1900?

All the hipsters and old folks still using glass plates while everyone else uses roll film...

“If exposures take less than a second, its not real photography...”

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I shoot with my phone, my Qs, my K-3, any one of a wide variety of 35mm SLRs and rangefinders, a couple of 1950s medium format folders, a TLR, a medium format pinhole camera, and a 5x4 view camera. I don't make my living from photography (although photography is often involved in my work), it is a source of fun and relaxation. As long as I enjoy it, I will use it. I'm looking forward to the Pentax 110 which should arrive later this week...
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QuoteOriginally posted by titrisol Quote
I guess that will make millenials cry
I just make the age cutoff of a millennial


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All the hipsters and old folks still using glass plates while everyone else uses roll film
Hey, at least film flatness isn't an issue and with glass plates contact printing is so much easier.
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QuoteOriginally posted by womble Quote
5x4 view camera. looking forward to the Pentax 110 which should arrive later this week..
A bit of a difference in the size of the negative in those two formats!

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My MX also has a roll of Superia 200 with only 13 shots, since 2011.
Film slows down with age, it's probably more like Superia 100 now.
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I shoot roughly 50/50 film & digital (it was much more film than digital until I bought the K-1). Most of my film is 6x7 with 35mm mono making up the rest (mostly to use my Pentax 35mm bodies). I also shoot an Instax SQ6 (the lure of instant film won't go away).

I shoot digital on holiday as everyone expects to look at the LCD and flying with film is becoming much harder. Being able to use the same lenses on film & digital (and manual cameras) is a huge advantage.

I'm more relaxed with film, I don't need to worry about charging batteries, carrying chargers or keeping an eye on a battery level indicator (which still seem to go from full to empty in 5 minutes). I still feel loading a film is a ritual, snapping the back shut the starting gun for an adventure.

I've recently acquired a stereo adapter with slide viewer, it kind of works on digital with a stereo print viewer but I suspect slides will be much more effective.
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QuoteOriginally posted by pathdoc Quote
Film slows down with age, it's probably more like Superia 100 now.
There are rolls of T-MAX 3200 on store shelves that would be ISO 6 about now, if it wasn't completely fogged already.

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QuoteOriginally posted by johnha Quote
I shoot roughly 50/50 film & digital (it was much more film than digital until I bought the K-1). Most of my film is 6x7 with 35mm mono making up the rest (mostly to use my Pentax 35mm bodies). I also shoot an Instax SQ6 (the lure of instant film won't go away).

I shoot digital on holiday as everyone expects to look at the LCD and flying with film is becoming much harder. Being able to use the same lenses on film & digital (and manual cameras) is a huge advantage.

I'm more relaxed with film, I don't need to worry about charging batteries, carrying chargers or keeping an eye on a battery level indicator (which still seem to go from full to empty in 5 minutes). I still feel loading a film is a ritual, snapping the back shut the starting gun for an adventure.

I've recently acquired a stereo adapter with slide viewer, it kind of works on digital with a stereo print viewer but I suspect slides will be much more effective.

How do you like that 67?? I really want one sometime
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QuoteOriginally posted by johnha Quote
I've recently acquired a stereo adapter with slide viewer, it kind of works on digital with a stereo print viewer but I suspect slides will be much more effective.
I’ve had my best results with the stereo adapter printing onto 5x7 inch paper and viewing it with a vintage card viewer.

It isn’t ideal, though...

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I also shoot about 50/50. Someone before said the important stuff is on digital and for me it’s almost the same except for landscapes where I do digital and medium format film equally side by side, the film being B&W or Velvia 100 in either a P6x7, a Bronica S2, or ETR(S).
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I shoot both. Mostly digital now for the pure ease and cost benefits. I have a bunch of 35mm film cameras that I like to load up whenever I feel the mood. I send my film to a lab and anticipate the results. It makes for a lot of fun.
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I started with film, but now I am digital all the way.
Some people still enjoy film and nothing wrong about it.
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For me since mid-2018 it's almost exclusively film and manual cameras. I'm going backwards

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I personally find film to now be obsolete for my needs. I simply can not imagine willingly going back to no instant
review, having to wait for a roll to be shot before development AND the hours to weeks it might take to see the results.
I find my photography is often better without the instant review counter intuitive I know, though I'm sure I'm not the only one...

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Practically speaking, film is going to become a commodity in the not too distant future since demand for film has tanked with the advent of digital photography, particularly that available in everyone's phone these days. I'm a pragmatist in that I see film manufactures scaling back because of those falling sales, so my move to digital was partially one of realizing film would increase in cost and become less available (not to mention the availability of developing).
As others have mentioned, this was true about 15 years ago however things have changed since then. In my time shooting film - about 10 years now - I've seen some products go, other new ones emerge, some reduction in retail film labs yet expansion in specialised ones, and from my perspective more interest in shooting colour negative film. Amongst other things. So it seems to be changing shape rather than dieing.

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Digital is better. Film is more fun
Personally I disagree with this and find film better for my purposes.

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I just make the age cutoff of a millennial
Me too!
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I wish I could even think about re-establishing my own darkroom. When I shot film, prior to buying my first digital Pentax (a *istD) the vast majority of it was bulk-loaded B&W negative, that I used to D&P myself. Colour negative was for special occasions, and reversal for very special ones, simply because of the cost.

Having recently retired, cost is probably less of an issue than when I had a young family, but I’d still like to shoot mostly B&W. After the rest of the house and garden is refurbished (and my old Light Fifteen restored) I might think about a darkroom: until then, digital will do nicely, thank you.
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QuoteOriginally posted by goddo31 Quote
I find my photography is often better without the instant review counter intuitive I know, though I'm sure I'm not the only one...
I admire your discipline and don't doubt it helps keep your skills sharp. I've committed to not using it a few times just to see if I can still read
a scene without it but I do very much appreciate its convenience.
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