As some of you may know from a couple of my recent posts, I'm buying Mamiya
RB67 gear like a drunken sailor. The reason: I'm not yet ready for digital,
and digital's sure as hell not ready for me. I shoot only for my own pleasure
and don't give a rat's ass what anybody else thinks of my photos.
I've shot film for so long that I almost always know just about exactly what
I'm going to end up with when I trip the shutter release, so verification of my
expertise (or dumb luck), whether it comes immediately, the next day, or two
weeks later, is not a real issue. I kind of enjoy the suspense. Instant
gratification leaves something to be desired, and it may be that only old retro
farts like me remember that. I'm rarely in a hurry for anything except the
cocktail hour and football season.
Anyway, I thought the few ancient and stubborn coots like me who haven't yet
succumbed to digititis and technomania, and who may be feeling left out by all
the pixel blather, might get a bit of a morale boost from this quote from an
article by Jim McGee, a real pro, recently in Vivid Light:
"(W)hen I'm shooting for the magazine where deadlines and workflow are most
important, I shoot digital. When I'm shooting for myself or for my personal
image archive, I shoot film, either slides or negatives as the occasion
dictates. In some cases I've shot both - so I'd have the digital images for the
magazine and the slides for my personal use.
"It turns out I'm not the only one who's come to this conclusion. Unreadable
CDs and the cost of moving digital images every eighteen months to new hardware
have now burned many photographers. The result? Fuji reports that while
consumer film sales continue to decline, professional film sales have increased
dramatically in the past year. Professional photographers are expressing their
concerns with their wallets. As a result, Fuji is focusing heavily on creating
a workflow based around shooting film, scanning and post processing."
Vivid Light can be found at: http://www.vividlight.com
Walt, smug as a bug in a rug with OMs, Graphics, Mamiyas and a fridge full of
film
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
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