What film photography still has to offer

<h1><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2011/08/20/living/film-not-dead-yet/">What film photography still has to offer</a></h1>

 

<p>Nothing?</p>

<p>Already posted <a href="../photography-news-forum/00ZDDF">here.</a></p>

<p>Jeff,<br>

I missed it since I don't often read the News forum. <br>

This just popped up today on my Google news alert. It is usually more timely. </p>

<p>Nothing!</p>

<p>High resolution (75 - 90 Megapixels) at reasonable ($3000 - 4500.00) cost. Used Mamiya RZ67 Pro II plus new Nikon 9000ED film scanner plus ancillary equipment common to both digital and film. <br>

Medium format black and white cannot be duplicated in digital yet. <br>

For artistic purposes it is a different medium. <br>

Proven archival storage.<br>

This list can be extended, and it will always be opinion. I love digital, and I love some aspects of film that digital doesn't reach. </p>

<p>Semi pro full frame bodies with all the bells and whistles for less than £100, that will most likely work with your existing lenses<br>

Or, compact kits for travel, which are both cheap and much lighter and than lugging around your dSLR<br>

A different aesthetic<br>

A different process<br>

Try it, you might like it</p>

 

<p>It’s kind of like going out to see a play. Why would you do that with all the expense etc. when you can just get something from Net Flicks and watch it in your living room?<br /> In many respects "the end of film" as been great for me. I how own tons of film camera gear that 10 years ago I could only dream of. Everything used is selling for only a tenth what it cost a decade ago.</p>

<p>Already discussed ad nauseum. See the current thread in medium format. Either you want to do it or you don't.</p>

<p>How about this:<br>

"what do tatoos offer?"<br>

Now that would be interesting.</p>

<p>The OP is vague. Why would film not still be offering what it offered before?</p>

<p><em>"It’s kind of like going out to see a play. Why would you do that with all the expense etc. when you can just get something from Net Flicks and watch it in your living room?"</em><br>

I must admit, it's brainless statements like the one above which keep me coming back to Photo.net for entertainment purposes.... Someone better rush down to Broadway and tell all those Theater Goers they can watch DVDs in their living rooms! No more live performances and unique experiences! Forget all THAT nonsense! :)<br>

I missed this article and am glad to see ANYTHING in the mainstream press which promotes analog photography's unique pleasures.</p>

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<p>Film offers 'Photography' - everything else is digital imaging? (duck and cover)</p>

<p>What do oils and water color still have to offer?</p>

<p>The satisfaction of knowing that a trained monkey can't do it.</p>

<I>Au contrair,</I> I read a while back about a new artists whose modern art paintings were selling for thousands of dollars. People would gush about the freedom and raw animalistc quality of his work. They cried "Fraud!" and demanded their money back when they learned the paintings were done by a gorilla using finger paints. (The big problem was keeping the gorilla from eating the finger paints.)

<p>Fun !</p>

<p>James,<br>

I read about that gorilla. I suspect he's also responsible for a lot af the digital images I've seen over the past decade or so... ;-)</p>

<p>A never ending love from those who still use it.</p>

Russ, are you familiar with the word “sarcasm”?

If I did not love film why would I be buying up old used camera gear as fast as my bank account would allow?