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CameraQuest
09-15-2010, 19:27
Hmm. Film vs Digital. All it does is color most everything we do as photographers.
A new Film vs Digital Forum has just been created.
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=158
Time will tell how it will work out. Let's see what develops ...
Stephen
amateriat
09-15-2010, 20:02
Look, here's how it plays out for me: I can still buy most of my favorite film types, and can still get them processed competently and quickly, without going through major gyrations. I already have the cameras I desire to load said film into, and photograph to my heart's (or occasional client's) content. When I feel like it, (or absolutely feel compelled to), I pick up a digital camera and "do" photographic stuff with it. But I prefer film by a country parsec. Got it? No barroom brawls, no snarky, backhanded Internets bon-mots, it's all rock n' roll.
(Who just stuck his tongue out???)
- Barrett
I earn my living with a camera. Work output is almost all digital. The photos I take for myself are 95% on film.
Chris101
09-15-2010, 21:03
A problem with having a specific forum for film and digital users to duke it out, is that most of the unpleasant stuff happens when someone of the opposite camp bombs a thread started by someone using (and touting) a particular medium.
These don't turn into FvDs until the second or third page.
By the way, I see everyone is playing nice there right now. I wonder how long that will last?
Chriscrawfordphoto
09-15-2010, 21:08
Make it really interesting: hand out guns and knives at the door! *giggle*
wlewisiii
09-15-2010, 21:13
Shrug. I had a bit of cash to spend on myself the other day. I made Ilford stock owners happy.
We should call it 'The Bull Pen!'
I hope the carpet's easy to clean ... and stain proof! :p
Good idea. But I agree with Chris, the Dig vs Film quarrels often don't start as such, but a benign thread suddenly turns into one. Sometimes they are fun and lighthearted, though not always.
Personally I don't want to go on about which is best. For one thing I don't have the best of equipment in either camp, which makes things difficult to make fair 1:1 comparisons, and secondly I don't really care. I like digital for its ease of use, and film for its sedating effect on me.
But ... I've noticed the new film v digital forum doesn't take a place on the home page ... much like the 'off topic' forum!
What a subtle way to sanitise volatile subject material ... keep it out of sight.
Congratulations!
...And the Evil SLR forum
The 'Evil' posts do appear on the main page unlike 'off topic' and the new 'digital verses film' forum but what the Evil forum doesn't have is a link in the shortcut menu on the left of the main page and I believe it's time it did.
The 'FSU' forum has a link there but it's not exactly active these days, not like it was ... in fact if you open the main page of the FSU forum there are are a total of 1475 posts being shown ... do the same for the 'Evil' forum and you'll see there are 3270 posts.
Yes ... I just counted! :p
SimonSawSunlight
09-15-2010, 23:55
maybe call it "THE PIT" or "THE CAGE"? :)
ruby.monkey
09-16-2010, 00:07
maybe call it "THE PIT" or "THE CAGE"? :)
How about "The Den of Ultimate Pointlessness"? Film v. digital is right up there with Mac v. Windows for sheer waste of time and braincells.
The best one can say for it, is that it'll act as an intellectual flypaper to catch those with too many opinions and too few manners.
sojournerphoto
09-16-2010, 00:11
How about "The Den of Ultimate Pointlessness"? Film v. digital is right up there with Mac v. Windows for sheer waste of time and braincells.
The best one can say for it, is that it'll act as an intellectual flypaper to catch those with too many opinions and too few manners.
But I scan film into my mac, so I must be cool, right?
Sorry, not true as I don't have a mac. But then I don't have a functional PC either at the moment. Irritating things.
So that's the area where we can do what they do in Fight Club?
(I suddenly felt the urge to watch Fight Club:))
We should call it 'The Bull Pen!'
I hope the carpet's easy to clean ... and stain proof! :p
I think most of us, who have seen the two sides of this "crazy" argument, at odds with each other, will just check in now and then to see how the battle is going.
p.
The Standard Deviant
09-16-2010, 01:30
Is it the 1st of April already? I must have slept through Christmas!
Make it really interesting: hand out guns and knives at the door! *giggle*
I pre-visualized a huge food fight.. in b+w, over exposed, and under developed.
The 'Evil' posts do appear on the main page unlike 'off topic' and the new 'digital verses film' forum but what the Evil forum doesn't have is a link in the shortcut menu on the left of the main page and I believe it's time it did.
The 'FSU' forum has a link there but it's not exactly active these days, not like it was ... in fact if you open the main page of the FSU forum there are are a total of 1475 posts being shown ... do the same for the 'Evil' forum and you'll see there are 3270 posts.
Yes ... I just counted! :p
It had to be set up like that, apparently, George Mitchell was too busy to come onboard as a mentor ... he took the easy job in the middle-east, perhaps when he's solved that one .....
:D
Dave Jenkins
09-16-2010, 07:59
What's the point. . .?
Might as well have a sub forum of 'hybrid' vs darkroom just to keep all the mess in one place!
What's the point. . .?
Perhaps it is somewhere to dump troublesome things ... like a latter-day memory-hole if you like
Great place to dump those threads - a place we know to avoid. Unless you like that sort of thing.
Any chance it could be added to the Quick Link list at the left of the page? Same with the SLR forum, it's not there either.
mc_vancouver
01-29-2011, 19:40
I don't think there ought to be a digital vs. film forum; rather, let's use each medium to its fullest potential. As soon as I can afford it, I"m going to buy one of the new Fuji X-100 digital rangefinders. That does not mean I'm going to abandon Fuji or Kodak or Ilford film, nor sell my film cameras. Travelling, I have realized, is made much lighter by the inclusion of at least one digital camera--even if I also carry a film-based camera. Similarly, here in Vancouver, when I want to cover something fully, digital is faster and more economical than film. But shooting film has its pleasures and advantages, even if the resolution "wars" are a thing of the past. So let's all get along, let's use this forum--if we use it at all--to discuss why we choose, among our various bits of gear, to use one medium instead of the other.
"Can't we just all get along!" cries the CCD to the 35mm canister.
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