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Film is DEAD

timbott

timbott

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I ordered a 1 gig SD memory card last week for my 5Mpix compact, nearly 800 pics capacity, and it cost less than a tenner delivered:rolleyes: How can film seriously compete with that:eek:

Surely now 35mm, or any other film for that matter, just has to be a bit of a dead duck. I still use a 35mm SLR for 'real' photography but I think it is time for me to think about ditching film and going 100% digital.

Anyone on here determined to stick with film through and through??

cheers, Tim
 
Have just bought myself a 10 mega pixel canon digi camera. The quality is fantastic and I cant imagine ever using film again.

Saying that there is an organic "look" you get with proper film which I dont think you can truely replicate with digital...though taking pics and never knowing quite what you got was always a pain in the ar$e I found :rolleyes:
 
Just gone Digital properly (only messed with phone cameras and a cheapo VGA snapshot thingy before). Well impressed with the quality and versatility. I got a Lumix (panasonic) TZ1, I think it is. Its only 5 mega pixel but the main reason I got that one is that its smaller than a 35mm compact but has a 10X optical zoom made by Leica. I love seeing the results immediatley, and if I don't like it then I take another. Thing is though, its only got a LCD screen, no view-finder and I'm finding it hard to frame up the shots and hold it steady. I love the versatility though, I can be as creative as I used to be with my old fully manual Practika LTL3 SLR, before the body started leaking light.
 
Being in the (temporary) luxurious position of being able to use high end mini DV cameras aswell as some Hi Def video stuff, I would if funds allowed use 16mm film cameras with all the hassle of recording sound seperately and a few lighting issues as film still really looks so much better than iccle squares. The main thing is as with everything in life the great god money, so film will die!:( I love the "organic" look film gives but it just cannot compete with digital, enjoy your film and TV but soon skys will all look banded, contrasty and quite ****e. Front projected film is the best, CRT TV is a close second but digital LCD and plasma sucks the big dogs cock IMHO.I just want one chance at using 35mm film before it dies.
 
Film is now in the realm of the specialist, much as the old bellows cameras were/are. In a few years, it will be difficult to get it processed at your local store. So for the average consumer, it is now on life support, and will be actually dead soon.

I haven't used film since 2000 when I bought my first 3 MP Nikon point and shoot as a "supplement" for my 35mm SLR. The Nikon was so convenient, with editing on the fly (no more wasted film) that it became my only camera. I now use a Canon 5D with 12.8MP. It's super.:)
 
I recently had a robbery and both my traditional SLR and digital point and shoot were stolen.

I've made the decision to go for a digital SLR and am thinking Canon. I've owned a couple of 35mm Canon AF SLR cameras in the past and the thief didn't think to take the lenses - just the chassis.

We have a trip to Dubai planned for mid February and I would appreciate any input as to which models I should be looking at.

Cheers.
 
conkers said:
I just want one chance at using 35mm film before it dies.
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It will be years and years before 35mm movie film dies. There is too much infrastructure for 35mm projection and handling at the mo. It is happening slowly though.

The contrast ratio, colour depth and exposure latitude that you get with fim can now be pretty much duplicated with modern digital cameras (moving and still image)...you are talking big money though to have that kind of funcionality.
 
We have a trip to Dubai planned for mid February and I would appreciate any input as to which models I should be looking at.
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Depends on how much you want to spend.

The Canon 400D is under £500.00 and the technical spec is very good indeed. It is quite small and light as it has a plastic case, as do most of the cheaper DSLRs. So if you are travelling it would seem a good bet. All your Canon EF lenses will fit.

Keith Hart
 
I was thinking a 30D, but having read up on the 400D, it's going to be bite the bullet and the 5D, or go for the much cheaper option of the 400D.

Now, how do I connect it back to my pc using WiFi?

Cheers.
 
I think film will exist alongside digital for a long time to come - particularly in the larger formats. Just because the likes of Jessops seem to have virtually dropped it from high street stores doesn't mean film is dead.

I shall continue with my medium format for a long time yet (used prices for lenses etc. are now realistic for me), and may just go up a little in negative size...

If film dies, so does my photography.

Cheers,
 
photo4x4 said:
Depends on how much you want to spend.

The Canon 400D is under £500.00 and the technical spec is very good indeed. It is quite small and light as it has a plastic case, as do most of the cheaper DSLRs. So if you are travelling it would seem a good bet. All your Canon EF lenses will fit.

Keith Hart
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Just got an EOS 400D myself and I'm very impressed with it.
Simple(ish) to use and set-up. Good range of manual functions, ISO from 100 - 1600 and in RAW you can alter the image exposure and colour on the PC before changing it into JPG format. It downloads using USB and with 10.1Mp it will produce A3 size prints straight from the camera!! :D

My first photos with it:
 

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Canon EOS 350D but there was only about £40-£50 difference between that and the EOS 400D so I thought I may as well go for the newer model. ;)

I also looked at the Nikon D50 and D70 but I found you got a better value for money with the Canon.
 
Still teaching 35mm and darkroom techniques with my students. As said before it will become a minority sport not supported by high street stores/processing.

We tend to use it for 'fine art' photography using darkroom effects (solarising, rayographs, toning, liquid light, double exposures, masking, etc) and also pinhole cameras using Nescafe tins. Some of these effects can be achieved using digi and photoshop, but something of the experimental creative process is lost with digi.

Digi is just too good at quality image capture, speed of processing and transfer, hence the photojournalism industry taking it on so readily, not to mention amateur domestic market.

Film/darkroom will always be there and be akin to the oily series landies vs the electrickery of Freelander.
 
How are you connecting your camera to your computer?

USB?
MMC Card Reader?
Other Method?
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Tried both USB and built-in card reader.

The USB method takes me straight into the Canon software so I can alter the RAW images before converting them to JPG and with the card reader I can choose the application I use to download the images.

If they are all JPG then I just use the Fuji Finepix software I've got as it's easy and just creates a new file on the hard drive for me. Then I can use Photoshop CS or one of the other photo editing programs for any alterations. ;)
 
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