Film -- why film

SiuBLoDau

As titled... why are you still on film?  

For me, I started with film.  It's a whole different experience than shooting digital.

• 童年夢想
  
• Every shot is $... so think before you shoot
  
• don't worry ( or can't worry ) about white balance
  
• no 1.5x crop factor
  
• better or shallower depth of field
  
• have to wait for developing and printing -- very excited.
  

When you hold your mechanical camera, each one is a piece of fine craftsmanship – hand assembled, mostly mechanical ( well, most ) and designed without the aid of computer ( again, most older ones ).  They can last forever with proper care.  You can’t ‘fall in love’ with DSLRs as their life span is only few years long, but definitely with those ‘metal blocks’!

The only down side of film is – developing and printing are getting expensive if you go to labs – I recently D&P a 36 exp rolls in CustomColor Pro and it costs me $35 ( + $10 for the 36 exp Reala )… that really hurts.

SiuBLoDau

For me, film is a totally obsolete medium. Digital can do everything it can and then some (and at a much lower cost to boot). The only thing digital does not have is old-school sentimental value.

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Lik 發表於 2009-5-8 11:18

Sheep is right... it's so free and confident when shooting high contrast with film.  But still, you can argue about bracketing and HDR.  

Even just this -> # 童年夢想... worths thousands.  Haha... we're not here to argue who is better, but just my reason to stay with film ( of course I still do 90% of shots on Digital ).

As title -- why film -- not 'why not digital'.  

SiuBLoDau

其實, digital 已經做左「大婆」, film 只係「偶爾出黎玩玩」既二奶; 試問無左 digital 既日子點過?  

剩係玩菲林我又無咁好錢財和堅持, ultraman 所講既「情意結」都係好大既原因.