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Not much good hand held, at night and being able to discretely slip the camera out of your pocket and take a silent photo then..!

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With apologies to Leica and gigapixel DSLR camera owners, real cameras begin with 6x4.5cm film and end with 8x10inch film . The 6x7 allows great color saturation, detail and contrast. Also the limited number of shots per film (10) makes you stop, think and compose before squeezing the cable release- yes the 6x7 has an enormous mirror and is very prone to slap back vibrations- so mirror locking and cable releases are quite important to fully exploit this medium. 

 

Ron, I had the pleasure many years ago of joining a pro on a shoot using a Hasselblad. Compared to my Nikon FE it was a beast of a thing but the pictures were in a class of their own.

I think you are right in that digital will never be the same as film, in much the same way that records and digital music are always going to be different.

I still have the FE and plan to get some B&W film just to mess about with.

Jono

I wouldn't be so sure. The sensors are becoming more sophisticated and powerful all the time. The glass is the same. The post-processing options are becoming more sophisticated. I see no reason why digital won't be able to replicate and surpass film in every aspect. For the average punter, digital already does surpass film. We have much better low-light capability, the ability to check images on the fly and re-shoot if required. Bracketing is essentially free.

High-dynamic-range techniques (blending the best exposed bits of a bracketed set) can extend the ability to capture high-contrast scenes. (When not done in a cartoon-like fashion. The best HDR stuff doesn't look like HDR, and there is more of it out there than you think.) HDR lets photographers work more effectively within the limitations of the medium. Film is also limited in dynamic range and colour gamut, but the techniques to work beyond these limits are often very difficult for the average person. Who remembers the hit-and-miss of dodging and burning-in in the darkroom? It was damned expensive, too. Lots of wasted prints. It was a pretty good eye that could get the correct print first time from a negative.

Resolution only becomes a factor at large print sizes and digital pretty much has this covered, now.

There may be a certain "filminess" to analogue images that digital doesn't necessarily or automatically capture, but on the balance, more great photos are now shot digitally than with film. And I'm not so sure you can't create a digital image that replicates film so precisely as to make no difference.

I always find it a little strange when people post digitized analogue images on the web and say "look how cool film is". If there is something that digital can't capture, that is true of both cameras and scanners, surely.

Speaking as someone who still uses an FE2 (and an FE...), F80 and an EOS3 and has kept a large number of 35mm cameras, Digital has now surpassed 35mm on so many levels IMO.

However, I still enjoy using 35mm for hands on/fun/aesthetic/personal preference reasons but the bottom line is I use the 7D/S95/X100 more!

Taken with FE2 and some Ilford last year...

35mm not much good for this sort of thing however...

Here's a pic I took in Tunisia four years ago with my Nikon FM2/50mm Nikkor f1.4 combo, using bog-standard Kodak Gold 200 (click on image to enlarge):

And another analogue pic...

Same camera and lens, this time with Ilford film

A little Berber girl seeing a balloon inflated for the first time - another analogue production:

Mmmmmmm...

Takes after his mum...

Don't forget our feathered friends...

This tree gets photographed a lot

This one doesn't...

Lunch at the local.....

2pm   -6C  winter sun  frozen lake  not picnic weather




A willow with only solid water to dangle over

Nice winter overcoats

Geoff

Yes. Get the cablecar up to Felsenegg and walk towards Uetliberg. It was only -18.

Another view of the same tree,

On my daily morning walk round the fields this morning, there was this stunning scene - a field of Mustard, tops frosted and stems bent from the cold, has a snaking narrow path through the middle to an old disused church. Today, as the dark red sun came up, it shone through a line of mist that hovered a foot or so above the field and turned it a wonderful rosy hue. Rays illuminated the path in narrow beams. The church rose behind, like a mysterious ship on a hazy ocean. Surreal and truly beautiful;  the best photo I'll probably ever capture, there for the taking :-

I went to pick up the camera this morning before heading out and thought, nahh, can't be bothered...