[Leica] film vs. digital in my brain.

[drodgers at casefarms.com (David Rodgers)]

I've had successes and failures -- both monetarily and creatively --
with digital and film. So I don't really have a preference for one or
the other. I don't find them all that interchangeable, though. Comparing
photography with a Leica M to photography with a 1DsMII is almost like
comparing either to photography with a Speed Graphic. They're all
different. I don't hear people saying that using a 1DsMII is a whole lot
more fun than using a Speed Graphic. Getting back to Walt's point, it's
probably easier to make a good photograph with a 1DsMII than it is with
a Speed Graphic. 

I can empathize with people who can't seem to warm up to digital. I a
can also empathize with people who embrace digital photography whole
heartedly. One any given day I can find myself in either camp. There was
a day when I thought I'd never shoot film again. But here I am shooting
film. I have an order of PMK Pyro on the way and I'm just as excited as
the day I bought my first 1GB CF card. Maybe even a tad more excited
:-).

daveR  



-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Magayne-Roshak [mailto:amr3@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 8:06 PM
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: RE: [Leica] film vs. digital in my brain.

>Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:47:19 -0400
>From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net>
>Subject: RE: [Leica] film vs. digital in my brain.
>
>Philip -  You just need a professional digital camera instead of a
>point and shoot. ;-)  The 1DsMII solves all of those problems.  For a
>bargain price the 5D solves them, too.
>
>Tina
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Philip Forrest wrote :

>I'm "soul searching" for a reason of why I want to take a photograph
with
>a >film camera and not a digital."

I have this feeling, too. Digital just doesn't seem as real as film. I
like
getting a transparency or a negative, even if I might never get around
to
making a print.  Both still can be viewed without any equipment. Maybe I
just don't like the idea of the subject being turned into (admittedly
microscopic) square bits.

 I use a 1D or 1D MkII at work,(and I appreciate what they do for my
professional output) but these and even the 5D are too big for me to
want
to carry around always for my personal photography. Not to mention what
it
would cost to get the bulky lenses too.


Alan
Saving money on equipment by being happy with my M3 et al.



Alan Magayne-Roshak
Senior Photographer
Photo Services
Univ. of Wis.- Milwaukee
Information & Media Technologies
amr3@uwm.edu
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