On 3/25/06, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I am not doing any serious photography at this time, I do agree > with you. > > Light and chemicals is a different media than light and pixels. I am > using digital for record shots, ebay shots, and snapshots thus I get by > with a decent P&S. > > Film is what I enjoy, and B&W film at that. A hobby is supposed to be > enjoyable. The digital workflow is just that to me, "WORK"flow. If I was > trying to make money with photography digital would be the way to go for > the types of stuff I did. However I enjoy the old Speed Graphic and > trying to get the shot with one film holder (two sheets of film). As a > hobby a couple of hours in the darkroom is soothing to my soul; and it > is still magic watching an image appear on a blank sheet of paper even > after more than 50 years.
I see there are some 130 posts further down this thread, and I've not read any of them beyond this one, so I have no idea where this thread is going. But, BUT, I hear what Kevin's saying, and I agree with Graywolf. There's just something about film that I can't put my finger on. All the digitalians out there will tell me that digital can do everything film can and more, plus give one more control of the final product, and I suppose that's true. In fact, that ~is~ true! "Products". That's what digital makes. "Products". Problem is, I don't see the results of my photography as products. They're photographs. I'm not a pro, I don't make money from what I do, I don't want to make money from what I do. Not because I have anything against making money, but because all my life I've hated my various jobs, and I'd fear that if I became a professional photographer (which I don't have the talent or gumption for in any event), I wouldn't love photography anymore. As Tom said, there's magic in film that digital just can't match for me. I like to be able to hold the results of my labours in my hands, carry it with me, look at it, know it's a photograph without having to look at a machine. I can do that with negatives. Can't do that with a bunch of ones and zeros. I suppose that's just silly drivel, and I'm not trying to justify what I say, and I don't expect anyone to agree with me - and I don't really care if anyone does. It's what I feel. Kevin, I hope you find your way, and I hope that going back to film is part of your solution, not because "film is good and digital is bad", but because whatever re-lights the passion you once had in photography is good. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
