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Like using a matchlock instead of your 6.5 Creed.

The modern way is to shoot a dozen and pick up the one you want!

My hearing isn't good enough to tell the difference. But supposedly vinyl records still give better sound quality than any other medium. Assuming they are used with good equipment and speakers.

a good turntable, McIntosh amps, and Martin Logan electrostatic speakers... makes yer hair stand up!...

If Cookie went back to film (still have my Nikon F), I'd have to find a cosigner. I think today's digital units do a better job of capturing a wider array of lights and colors. Like I could never get good images of fish with film, but the digitals do everything from the whites and silvers to the blacks in a single image.

Now the real estate agents use digital drones for aerial photos of houses. Inspectors also use them for looking at roofs and other things they can't get at easily. It's a lot more fun than crawling around on a 6-12 2 story metal roof.

Drones are a game changer.

I do not have a 107 Pilots license, but......

anywho,




ya!

GWB

Back to film or vinyl for fun or nostalgia? Sure.

But there are no other reasons to go away from the current best platform out there for sure.

The lab in this video still does quality film processing

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I started with a Canon AE-1 in 1976. After a long hiatus, I'm back into photography with a
mirrorless digital Sony A7C. In my opinion, film photography requires much more thought. Digital pictures can be thrown into Photoshop, and a crappy picture can be turned into something decent - but it just doesn't have the soul of film.

^^^This^^^

For me its harkens back to a simpler, more innocent time. It is nostalgia for the most part, but I enjoy the thought process that is involved, kinda like in pistol craft --a well aimed shot vs. spray and pray which is all too common now- a -days.

That said, it is absolutely wonderful what one can do with digital, especially the idea of taking a pic. with your phone and sending it where ever.

I remain though, primarily a film guy.

What a good video, he puts into words what I feel but could not articulate.

I'm guessing that 90% of photos taken now are intended for social media and texting. Soul be damned. They'll never end up on a wall.

Here's why us amateurs like digital: Years ago my partner shot this great bull. The only photo he had was this old faded thing taken in his garage, hardly an elk's natural habitat. 25 years ago, I was learning Photoshop and I asked to have a crack at it. I scanned it to get it digital and spent that next hunting season taking pics in the forest looking for a suitable background scene. The 2d photo is what I ended up with. He's 79 now, crippled up and getting dementia, but he can still remember that hunt and the elk. He has the antlers and the photo on the wall. I'm proud of being able to keep his memory alive.

A lot of you guys are dead men walking. Telling AI to 'make me a photo of a nude Taylor Swift' will become 'make me a photo of a dead big buck with me in the photo'. It will all make Round Oak look like an amateur. I could tell AI to add a manure spreader to the photo.

People and objects can be deleted from a photo on a simple mobile phone camera, making a photo that never really happened. To me, a photo is capturing a moment of reality.

When we can't tell the difference between real and fake, it all becomes fake.

No printed photo lasts forever. Restoring a film photo is beyond the abilities of most amateurs and it can get expensive having it done professionally. Once a photo is scanned to be digitalized, anyone with some knowledge of Photoshop can do repairs and restoration on a home computer. Home printers don't do the quality of a film developer, but a restored photo can be stored digitally and reprinted any number of times as the print fades and deteriorates.
This is an aunt of mine, probably in the '20's, original and Photoshop restored. Of course a professional can do a lot better, but some of us just like to do things ourselves.

It hasn’t been very long ago that the image quality of digital approached film. I’ve always thought film added some depth.

But now, with high end full frame or medium format cameras with equally high end lenses, it’s not better enough to quibble.

Nicely done Rock. She looks lovely.