Why Am I Still Doing This?

[jay_mcclure]

<p>Doubts...no, not here. Looks and comments oh yeah. I was standing infront of the meat cooler in the grocery store a couple days ago with my Canon EF and Vivitar 400mm 5.6 hanging from my shoulder. This guy leans over his shopping cart resting his elbows on to the handle of the cart and sais "Still shooting Film Eh?" My responce was "hell yeah, contrary to popular belief it's cheaper" He laughed and started going on about the cost of printing and consumable prices. We yammered on for a wile about his convertion to digital and my decision not to, the price of my set up versus it's modern equivalent and then some. He got into his photographing habits and was telling me about the three Canon EOS's he had killed through ware and tear general use.</p>

<p>I finally ended the conversation with " This camera here has a few hundred thousand shutter acuations....and that is just since I bought it, and I bought it used."</p>

<p>Now, if you are asking why you still do this as in shooting film, ask your self, what do you want to spend money on, a new body when you exceed the life expectancy of your digital body or a few hundred rolls of film and processing when you run out.</p>

<p>Seriously, all this for less than the cost of an Canon EF 400mm f/5.6, and that is not even all of what I have for the Canon FD and FL systems.<br /> <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v371/battousaiofnphiles/Photos/Cameras/?action=view&current=100_4608_5_2-1-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v371/battousaiofnphiles/Photos/Cameras/100_4608_5_2-1-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /> </a> <br /> Bigger here - http://www.photo-lucidity.com/pic-1629.html</p>

[wayne_crider4]

<p>I generally cruise the largeformatphotography.info forum and enjoy looking at the images under a variety of headings. It does get the juice up, and maybe if Pnet doesn't cry foul here cause of the bandwidth, it might get things happening beyond the what "anything" questions. I especially enjoy the monthly LF portrait threads and the landscapes are great.</p>

[thomas_barnes1]

<p>Why am I still doing it?<br>

From the old school, I guess. I don't get the thrill from the digital camera images. And my weapon of choice has always been Canon products and the great FD lenses that compliment them. Even at this site there seems to be many Photoshop-ed to death images. And if Kodak finally bends to their stockholders and ceases film, I'll just go elsewhere. If it becomes impossible to get film processed, I'll process my own. After all, gas used to be really cheap. Now its more expensive. You haven't stopped driving have you? It just costs you more to get where you want to be... :)<br>

It gets better. I even invested in a whole MF outfit(ETRS) in another potential dinosaur--120.<br>

Folks, IMHO if we want to have these products around we need to get off our computers and out shooting more film. Excuse me, my Canon EF is calling! Time to go shooting!</p>

[rwbowman]

<p>With trembling fingers as I open that box of transparencies, in my mind's eye I see what I saw in the viewfinder several days before, and lo and behold sometimes the image I now see on the lightbox is just what I imagined. That's why I still do it.</p>

[kurt_driver]

<p>"With trembling fingers as I open that box of transparencies, in my mind's eye I see what I saw in the viewfinder several days before, and lo and behold sometimes the image I now see on the lightbox is just what I imagined. That's why I still do it."<br>

And sometimes it's better than you remember. I don't know why i keep shooting film, maybe because I keep baying film cameras? And I occasionally make a nice picture.</p>