Digital AND film...

[r00onmac]

I was just reading through a thread and read one of Astrograzer's posts... it made me wonder...

how many of you ladies and gents on here shoot digital and film on a regular basis? not just for your tanks, but in your everday lives. do any of you develop your own film, etc?

I shoot digital and b&w and i do develop my own b&w and print them myself as well.

just thought it would be fun to ask...

[astrogazer]

Heard my name ...

You could get me started for hours on this one ...
I shot exclusively B&W for probably 10 to 15 years, processed and printed all of my own stuff, it took me about that long till I figured I had graduated to color, still to this day I have a fondness to B&W. I have sold and have had many published images over the years some of which have appeared in advertising campaings for names such as Kodak, Nikon and Seiko. The bulk of which was film, and the bulk of that was slide film, ie. Kodachrome, Ektachrome and Fujichrome, some of it in rather large formats (5x7 and 8x10 view cameras, which I love, btw). I have not played with film in almost 10 years now and I have worked hard perfecting my digital darkroom processes. The technology is here today that will allow the reproduction of 8x10 images of commercial grade by small sensors in Digital SLR's.

I try to make up mini assignments for myself once a week, even if it's just an exploration of my backyard. I learn something new in each and every session.

With digital it's cheap to play, take lots of shots, different exposures, try things, push the envelope, you never know when you might surprise yourself. Hey, the price is right, doesn't cost you out of pocket to process all those images ... I love digital

Happy shooting!

[louist]

Until about a year ago, I shoot only slides (E6) and my "bread and butter" film was Fuji's Velvia, Provia and Sensia. I don't develop these myself since it isn't cost effective and I trust a pro-lab to do this for me. When I shoot B&W, I sue Kodak's T-400CN which is a C41 B&W. I like it because it scan so well.

When I shoot film (positives or negatives) I do the scanning myself on my Canon FS4000US.

Since getting a DSLR, I rarely shoot slides anyway. I mostly shoot macro, so increases in ISO performance is very important to me (faster shutter speed allows me to freeze action much more effectively) and no ISO400 slide I have used can match the performance of ISO400 even on the 10D.

I love slides, and will continue to. I will go back when I get into large format panoramic systems.