Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Following are a few thoughts I have had on why shoot film over digital. This along with other things relating to my daily photography are located on my blog at: http://web.mac.com/whmcclary/iWeb/tobacco-road/Blog/Blog.html Over the last few months I have been finding myself shooting more and more film. This is mostly film shot for personal photos, my professional work is still done using my EOS digitals. Why would I shoot film, when I have one of the best digital cameras made? For me there are several reasons. First is that I get to use my Leica M6es more. Those are, to me, simply the best photographic tools I have ever used. They are a no nonsense camera. Somehow the M?s seem to ?get out of the way? of my creative shooting and allow me to make photos that I like better and easier with less thought than any SLR I have used. Second I like dropping my film off, going back picking up the negs, prints and a CD...all done and ready to put in a scrap book or whatever. With digital I have to download, edit and then put on a CD take to the lab and get prints made. The ability to edit and do final prep work on the images is why I like Digital for work, but I HATE it for personal photos. I do more than enough of that junk on a daily basis for paying customers, do not care to do it for myself. I am just too lazy. LOL I have discovered that at Costco they give excellent prints at a very cheap price, also the photos they place on CD are more than adequate for putting on the web, or other things I need a digital file for. Should I need a larger file from a film image I can always scan it with my Nikon 4000 and get a 40 meg scan. One thing I think many many people who are buying the tiny point and shoot digitals are not thinking about is how are they going to look at those photos 5 years down the road when they have a new computer or a disk fails on them. Most ?happy snappers? have no clue as to the downfalls of digital and the storage issues. For my personal photos of my kids and family I try to get 4x6 prints made so that I at least have a hard copy of the memories the photos represent. Anyway, for me and now I am having fun once again with my Leicas and shooting film on my kids and wife. -- Harrison McClary Harrison McClary Photography harrison@mcclary.net http://www.mcclary.net ImageStockSouth - Stock Photography http://www.imagestocksouth.com Tobacco Road: Personal Blog: http://web.mac.com/whmcclary/iWeb/tobacco-road/Blog/Blog.html