Some folks persevere with film because they like it or it suits their photography well enough, or whatever. Others prefer to learn rendering B&W (if it's black and white work that they want).
Whatever seems right to you is the right answer. As Freeman Paterson put it in a recent interview, "The least important question and the one that the most words seem to be tossed about on in recent years is 'whether to use film or digital'. To me it is a nonsensical question as it has so little to do with photography." Godfrey On May 5, 2008, at 7:03 AM, Michael S. Keller wrote: > I've been out of serious camera shopping for so long that only now > did I > notice the absence of Pentax film cameras in the product lineup. > Should > I care? I was thinking of getting another, but is it worth it? Or if I > ever shoot film again, should I just use the Nikon P&S I inherited > from > my father? My primary love with film was black & white, where I > started > with my grandfather when he showed me the fun of darkroom work. My > fondest shooting memories from those days was of dipping into Ilford > HP-5 and carrying it all the way to prints, with the necessary > frugality > of using the same developer for everything in the chain (D-76, no stop > bath, whatever fixer I had). > > Do I want to go to that expense again for equipment that is already > aging and for which there may never be new parts again? > > -- > -Michael > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
