Shane as you know my respect for film is growing

What's wrong with using both to enhance one another? http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/videoenhancement/videoEnhancement.htm

To answer your question Jon... Nothing is wrong with both. I am a Graphic Designer and I use digital for things such as Product Photography. Digital is amazing for this. I can shoot the Product and upload the photo straight to my computer and do with it as I wish. To me, that is the purpose of digital.

Thanks for the comment Jon

-Shane P. Helvie

Love film work, especially post-production. All my HD equipment is so expensive, I try not to take in the field unlike I did my pro-consumer gear. All my shoots are in studio on green screen now days. http://www.inndesign.com/video.html

I always hated the T-grain emulsions like TMax. I prefer the older tech films like Neopan and Tri-X, I could never get with the tonal curve of Tmax and don't like the whole grain free look. What's your printing process like with it?

Alas, I've all but given up on film for most things. They stopped making my favorite BW printing paper two years ago and drum scans are ridiculously expensive.

I still hang on to some of my film gear for nostalgic purposes. shrug. cry.

Some recent goo

A flower for you

I agree the printing process these days is pretty ridiculous. Where did "optical enlargement" go? Everything is scanned these days, and in my opinion... much is lost.

I could go on all day on this one, so I will stop here.

BTW, Very Nice Photos! Diggin' the Green.

I am not a professional photographer. I take pictures and mount them in scrapbooks and albums.

Digital works for me because it is easy. I can easily see if the pic turned out okay and possibly snap another one if nessiscary. Using your computer you can make it black and white, or sepia for more dramantic effects.

I do however miss taking film every now and again.

I think there is a place for both, but my personal preference is digital.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE film photography, especially in b&w. But when my work stopped become a niche hobby and a full-on profession, this thing called money got involved. With my wedding photography, I can shoot and shoot and shoot and never have to worry about running out of room (20GB+ of memory and a laptop make that happen) and so I can shoot to my hearts content. If I were to try to take the same 2000 photos or so that I do in a wedding, I'd be paying for over 80 rolls of film each weekend! Yikes! Not to mention development costs.

I still keep a film camera for taking some fun photos on the side, but honestly, digital is catching up quicker than I'd like to admit, and it's getting cheaper.