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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2024 04:18:15 No.4380530 View View Reply Original Report

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Has anyone ever starting shooting film then to go back to fully shooting digital? It feels like every time someone starts shooting film they either
>keep shooting film forever, at best occasionally using digital
or
>slowly stop taking photos all together

Has anyone here ever gone back to digital?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2024 05:09:03 No.4380550 Report

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>>4380530
I realized I liked film because it let me larp as a hip film photographer kid, then realize it was all in vain and meaningless. I'm mostly on digital now just to take photos for the sake of taking photos. I very occasionally pull out film when I feel like roleplaying however.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2024 05:38:10 No.4380562 Report

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Yeah I shot a few rolls of film and then switched back to digital. Sometimes I turn on one and snap a few dry shots just to hear the shutter then put it back in its bag.
35mm is for amateurs and I don't wish to buy into medium/large format equipment.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2024 06:05:09 No.4380567 Report

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>>4380530

My reason for swapping from digital to film is I was sick of editing. I’m never going back unless we get 1 click ai editing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2024 06:25:49 No.4380572 Report

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>>4380530
Yeah me. I dropped 4x5, 6x6, and 35mm for an a7c. Its just good enough. Film doesnt make bad photos good.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2024 06:38:23 No.4380573 Report

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>>4380567
So your main problem is you don't want to fuck with the cameras jpg settings
Do they feel more enticing if I call them "film recipes"?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2024 07:16:20 No.4380581 Report

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>>4380573
>Do they feel more enticing if I call them "film recipes"?
It actually does

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2024 08:08:46 No.4380592 Report

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>>4380573

Jpeg always look like trash on modern cameras.
You have to RAW and mess around with at least 8 sliders each time to get anything half decent.
Film you just do a 5 second curve adjustment to get your black and white point and contrast right and a quick curve on a color channel if necessary to fix a color cast and it looks great.

Film has a huge window where most anything you do with the colour curves looks nice.
Digital looks terrible unless you dial it in to the ninth degree.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2024 08:17:13 No.4380597 Report

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>>4380592
>Jpeg always look like trash on modern cameras.
>You have to RAW and mess around with at least 8 sliders each time to get anything half decent.
stop buying sony

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fe2fucker Sat 02 Nov 2024 08:26:05 No.4380598 Report

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the human mind is fluid
interests morph and come and go as you live

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2024 10:24:04 No.4380607 Report

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>>4380530
I have an Olympus XA that I occasionally shoot with. But every time I do, I get much more fulfillment than I think I ever will from digital.

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Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2024 10:29:24 No.4380609 Report

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>>4380530
I use both a pretty even amount. There are things I like about film that I cant get from digital and there are things I like about digital that I can't get from film.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2024 11:57:22 No.4380622 Report

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>>4380567
skills issue

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2024 15:08:24 No.4380661 Report

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I started digital, mostly film 2009 to 2016, then have been 99% digital since.
Cost was a big incentive back then, $200 F100 vs +$2k D700, and I could shoot Ektar for under $4 (roll + dev).
I like using film cameras more so than the actual film part, and now I have lots of digital options that scratch the same itch.
Did photo lab all in highschool, and 6 years with an actual lab, so the film processing side of things has lost all it's charm.
I've played around with enough different cameras, even 4x5 very briefly.
Too impatient for the film process now, and don't feel like it offers me anything I can't just get digitally.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2024 15:40:15 No.4380674 Report

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>>4380530
I got an mft camera, tried it out, sold it. Bought a decent 70s era half frame camera and the image quality is significantly better.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 02 Nov 2024 16:27:39 No.4380683 Report

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>>4380530
Most SANE film shooters when they realize lab scans suck, make film basically worse digital, and actually using film as itself instead of a convoluted version of using a smaller SD card and not looking at it for a week is actually a whole other hobby adjacent to photography - and a spendy and techy one with chemicals and timers and temps and darkrooms and grain focusers and color sliders and contrast papers…

So they buy a digital camera and dont go back until they’re ready to self dev and do their own scans at the least

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