Anyone gone from digital to film ??

It has to have something more than a feel and a smell to still exist...!
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I've said it here loads of times, film IS better than digital.

I shoot a fair bit with canon stuff, I like to use it and I have a whole heap of clients that are very happy with the output. I also shoot with a Leaf digi back on a Mamiya camera. It's great and leagues above the quality canon (or whoever) can muster. So, I have a good digi background and I'm very happy with what it does.

What it doesn't do though is get anywhere near the richness and subtle tonal quality of a REAL print made from a REAL piece of film. I still think that in pretty much most cases though, once you go to litho print it all evens out and you won't see any difference.
 
I never started doing digital in the first place I'm still struggling with film after more than fifty years, and hope one day to be a good enough photographer to justify the equipment I own.
I'm not anti-digital but It's not for me I don't have the patience to learn photography all over again.
 
I'm definitely a 'child of the digital revolution,' if you'll excuse the cliché, but I've recently found myself with a couple of film cameras.

In the last few weeks I've shot a few rolls of FP4 and roll of XP2 with a pair of 35mm rangefinders, and two rolls of FP4 through an Ikonta MF folder. I've shot exactly 82 shots on digital in that time, 50 in one evening of one subject and the other 32 while out and about on a walk in Teignmouth.

My father came up with what I think is an apt analogy: 'Shooting film is like driving a classic car. It's an adventure and hugely exciting, but you wouldn't want to have to get to the airport on time in one.'

One thing I have noticed is that my keeper rate has gone up considerably after being introduced to film, and that the shots taken with my D80 have increased in quality.
 
skullfish said:
I'm definitely a 'child of the digital revolution,' if you'll excuse the cliché, but I've recently found myself with a couple of film cameras.

In the last few weeks I've shot a few rolls of FP4 and roll of XP2 with a pair of 35mm rangefinders, and two rolls of FP4 through an Ikonta MF folder. I've shot exactly 82 shots on digital in that time, 50 in one evening of one subject and the other 32 while out and about on a walk in Teignmouth.

My father came up with what I think is an apt analogy: 'Shooting film is like driving a classic car. It's an adventure and hugely exciting, but you wouldn't want to have to get to the airport on time in one.'

One thing I have noticed is that my keeper rate has gone up considerably after being introduced to film, and that the shots taken with my D80 have increased in quality.
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as a complete amateur, shooting for the family and for the sheer pleasure of photography I am an 'amateur' in the true sense. But. what do you do with your images?

I used to select a few and put them into an album, I do the same today but I don't have to get a whole roll developed before I decide what I like. On the other hand I take way more 'speculative' shots, my %of 'keepers' has decreased, but my satisfaction, overall, has increased.
 
I use film on a weekly basis. Here in Canada many clients prefer their photographers to use film. I think of it more as a bonus. Nowadays I dont process my own as I use labs. All they do is process it and send it back. I then run it through my light table and loupe selecting which shots I want and then scan them in to the computer. They then get organized the same way as my digital shots in Aperture. Sounds long and tedious but it is actually more enjoyable. For convenience and press time processing I would use digital or if the client didnt specify which medium they preferred.
 
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