Comments on: 10 Things I Love About Film

By: Mattias Wirf

Mattias Wirf — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:26:25 +0000

Film and old stuff is so great!

I was at a demonstration in town the other day. Newspaper photographers were there with big new cameras. They gave me strange looks. I had manual lenses, an old Zeiss from the 70’s. Then I took up a rangefinder from the 60’s. Next, the folding/bellow Isolette 120-format camera from early 50’s! Haha, they must have thought I was from the stoneage. They had bigger cameras. Big peni***, opps sorry lenses, with major hoods.

The next day I looked in the papers website. God, their photos were crap (reeeaaaally bad)! I had quite a good laugh

By: the_wolf_brigade

the_wolf_brigade — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:43:44 +0000

Yay! Another film convert! I suggest checking out the “I shoot film” group on flickr - they have heaps of advice for new users to film. If you can’t find what you need there, find me on flickr and maybe I can help

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:08:55 +0000

I am one of the newbies who never learned film. I itch to go out and buy a film camera when I read things like this. I would have not picked up on a lot of the Sarcasm as I don’t know film well. I think that the haters that got all worked up may not have much experience with digital.

Leaving that said, I think I will go browse e-Bay and find a used film body.

By: Jason Bell

Jason Bell — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:33:19 +0000

Agree on the cost of film. Its not as much as people make it out to be. People think if they don’t go digital that they won’t have the money, or that they have to be sparing about their shots like you said. Silly silly silly!

By: NRG

NRG — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:46:49 +0000

To this day, my favorite of all is Fujichrome 50 ISO Velvia.. ah.. those were simply awesome. Sure, I can modify my digital shots to mimick the rich saturated colours Velvia provides… but slide offers something digital does not.. the illusion of depth (when viewing on a light table or through a projector, the scene looks so ‘3d’ in the sense of depth). Digital fails on this count.

I also had to be very selective in what I shot when shooting slide film. Nowadays, I can be as careless as I want. This can work for or against me.. If I’m in a serious mood and want to learn, the digital format does offer me extreme flexibility (I can simply delete what doesn’t work and move on).. but when shooting slide, I pay far more close attention to details and really try my best to get the best shots (no room for fooling around here IMHO).

God bless Velvia!

By: Karl

Karl — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:42:17 +0000

Nice article. Nothing beats medium format 6×6 and even old (1920’s) large format glass negatives kill anything digital today hands down.

By: Udi

Udi — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:44:34 +0000

This was fun.
Hey, I think you should try following up with “10 things I hate about still photography”, and list “The pictures won’t move after I’ve taken them”

By: large format black and white photography

large format black and white photography — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:18:17 +0000

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By: Dan Auer

Dan Auer — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:20:57 +0000

I am going to need that 1973 Minolta SRT Super back. Seems I made a mistake loaning it to you. I think I have created a film monster. Go ahead and box all the film cams up and send them to Idaho, I still think you hate film. Dad.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:55:32 +0000

Shoot em down Brian.