Hi,
I do occasionally.
Last time it was in September when I was in Finnish Lappland.
I shot both digital and film - 6x6 transparencies with Hasselblad.
Before that I had the same situation in March - again Lappland and
Hasselblad.
The last time I managed to break something in my old 500C, but I still have
my Mamiyaflex C2 with nice clean black Sekor 80/2,8 lens.
I also have some Velvia 120 rolls wai´ting for special occasions.
Although the quality is many times better than with Nikon D70S, there is
much more trouble with it (I live 130 km from Tallinn) and in Tallinn only 1
or 2 labs take in colour slides. I even do not know where they develop it,
perhaps in Helsinki. I have to travel several times to get my film developed
and then I have to go for scanning, because I do not trust the lab's flatbed
scanner's mediocre quality. My friend has his own drum scanner and I have to
travel again - into the deep middle of the country, because he does not live
in Tallinn either. Et cetera et cetera.
But I have printed 90x120 cm prints from 6x6 slides and I like them a lot.
Peeter
PS: the weather forecast just promised some storm in the coming Satureday -
28 m/s.
Must go out to the coastline and take pictures! Film or digital???
Unless it will be flooded again - then I won't find the coastline :)
P
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard" <home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
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Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 7:09 PM
Subject: Photographers Still Using Film
Hello everybody!
How many photographers are still using film on the basis that it gives
better results than digital?
One of my students, having worked in photographer's shop says that she was
told all "professional" photographers still prefer film apart from
photojournalists and sports photographers. (I'm excluding large format
work here.)
That "fine art", Wedding, Social photographers all still use film because
it's:
better quality and colours
and if a card is damaged you can lose 100s of photos whereas with a film
you only lose, say 36 exposures (not much of a consolation for the
distressed bride!)
I'd welcome comments fromn anyone who works in or is familiar with
relevant fields
Thanks
Howard
