Five Pro-Film Links

Everything old is new again.....Photography 180.

"Digital? You're talking to a man who shot 180 rolls of medium format film in the last two weeks!" He shouted. (He didn't really shout but it seemed like it). He's got a digital SLR but only uses it for clients who (and I'm paraphrasing here) "Don't give a ________ about your style, they just want a usable file, quick. I want clients to hire me for my style. And I spent twenty years working on this stuff and I'm not going to go and reinvent the wheel just because someone needs to sell cameras!"

Read the complete article at The Visual Science Lab

THE ZEN OF FILM vs. DIGITAL GRATIFICATION

So my theory is simple: there is something really important, perhaps magical, about the fact that film is so unforgiving that it creates a special mindfulness in the photographer, which in turn increases the chances of making great pictures.

Read the complete article at Doug Menuez's Blog.

10 Things I Hate About Film

Film is a four-letter-word. It’s a hideous part of our photographic past, and we’ll be better off once it’s been eliminated from society. I’m ashamed to admit that I tried film once, but I quickly learned just how disgusting it really is and I’ve been clean ever since that occasion. Just take my word for it — FILM IS BAD (mmmkay). Here are ten things I hate about film:

Read the complete article at Epic Edits.

10 Things I Love About Film

Just in case your sarcasm detector's batteries were dead while you read the last link. This is the translation.

Credit Crunch Photography

I could tell that Bryan's initial response to receiving the camera was "It's a film camera – what am I supposed to do with this?" I explained to him that it had probably cost less than a spare battery for one of today's dSLRs and that he should just give it a try and see how he got on. I was pretty confident that the image quality from the camera would blow away anything he had got from his Canon G9.

Read the complete article at TravelPhotoMag.com.