Digital is bad!

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Digital has made me into a click merchant and it is getting worst :( when I used film, I used to take my time and carefully set up the camera to match the situation checking settings as I go but now I am fast becoming a rapid machine gunner. I know it is wrong and I need to curb my ways. what has digital done to you?
 
made me lazy... 'oh, that sky isnt to dramatic... ahwell, no need to come back, a few layers in photoshop will make it more stunning'... etc. etc... using film for the last couple of months has been curbed those habits :)
 
Digital for me has got me into photography after sitting on the side lines for years and years.
Never been able to justify photography with film as the cost issues, but now digital means its free, so to speak, ok you still have to buy te gear and the computer programs to PP but on the whole its free. i have bought everything that you see in my camera bag(in profile)so now I can take pics mess with them, show them on here, and enjoy what it gives me.

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Ajophotog said:
Digital has made me into a click merchant and it is getting worst :( when I used film, I used to take my time and carefully set up the camera to match the situation checking settings as I go but now I am fast becoming a rapid machine gunner. I know it is wrong and I need to curb my ways. what has digital done to you?
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Come on, spill the beans, how many did you shoot? :lol:
 
Digital has made me shoot. I tried getting in to photography with my old 35mm, but the cost of film and processing put a stop to it. With digital I can shoot and learn, without every mistake costing me money!
 
Amazing how few have not yet owned up to machine gunning :D
 
martyp said:
Hmm, it's turned me into a chimp?! But it's really only to check the histograms... :lol:
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haha :)
Same here.. Wife looks at me as if im some kind of lunatic.
Trying to explain histo's and blinkies didnt help matters either!
I did have a period where i would rattle off as many shots as i could-Figuring the more i took,the more likely i was to get a few keepers..
Awful habit though...
 
Digital has made me want to learn photography. I can take a pic see it instantly change the shutter speed iso etc take another and see instantly what the effect is. Just backs up the book reading and is fast. Id never have used a film camera , sent off the films , waited a week then said" now i wonder what i did here "
 
Digital isn’t bad at all, quite the reverse in fact.

I got my first “decent” camera, a 35mm Yashica rangefinder in 1964 when I was 16. Totally manual of course, and I could’t afford a light meter, so a lot of guesswork was in order. Film was expensive (to me at least) so I couldn’t shoot a lot anyway. I did read a lot though… absolutely devoured Amateur Photographer and any other magazines I could get hold of. I kept a notebook detailing every single shot (no exif info available then). The end result was that it took years before I got a “feel” for things.

OK… I’d moved from Yashica to Olympus to Bronica to Hasselblad to Canon etc etc. and quite a few others in between (all film).

It was only when I moved to digital that I lost the constraints that the cost of film had imposed. Suddenly it didn’t matter if I took six (or even sixty) shots of that particular subject rather than just one.

With digital you just can’t help but get better quite quickly, it’s almost automatic and at minimal cost too.
I’ll accept that you need a computer and software but most people have that anyway now. I’ll also accept that sometimes film does have the edge over digital in pure tonal quality.

But on balance… Digital is the best thing that has ever happened to photography to date.

Not bad at all :)

cheers

 
Ajophotog said:
Digital has made me into a click merchant and it is getting worst :( when I used film, I used to take my time and carefully set up the camera to match the situation checking settings as I go but now I am fast becoming a rapid machine gunner. I know it is wrong and I need to curb my ways. what has digital done to you?
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This Thread is soooo funny :lol:

Only yesterday after browsing though "The Photo Book" i was imagining just how hard it must have been for the early pioneers and users alike, covering plates with egg white and even expensive and dangerous chemicals, the trial and errors they must have endured, the models having to freeze for ages just to stop the blur. and i thought to myself, could i be bothered with all that hassle?

modern times and inventions have helped shape our world and us, and i say just embrace it and click away to your hearts content... :thumbs:

although i have days, like yesterday, when i walked round London and didn't even remove my camera from my bag !! - just didn't see anything inspiring :(

maybe a balance of quality over quantity, yes, thats it !! :)
 
Ajophotog said:
Digital has made me into a click merchant and it is getting worst :( when I used film, I used to take my time and carefully set up the camera to match the situation checking settings as I go but now I am fast becoming a rapid machine gunner. I know it is wrong and I need to curb my ways. what has digital done to you?
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Carry one 200mb card only. That'll slow you up.

:)
 
Digital means I can afford to enjoy photography.

I had a nice film setup, had shot film for 20+ years had some great lenses etc, but who can afford £5+ per 24 shots.

Digital means I get instant feedback (or almost instant), or can try things several times whilst learning.

It has meant my bank balance has suffered though;)
 
Ajophotog said:
Digital has made me into a click merchant and it is getting worst :( when I used film, I used to take my time and carefully set up the camera to match the situation checking settings as I go but now I am fast becoming a rapid machine gunner. I know it is wrong and I need to curb my ways. what has digital done to you?
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I'm exactly the same!! I used to be able to get 2 college projects done on a single roll of film. All carefully planned out shots with masses of thought into the layout, DoF etc etc..
Now I tend to just fire away, even at things i'm not really shooting, I just love the sound of the mirror flipping up lol. :eek:
 
Digital is great!

It means I could finally understand how to do things properly, instead of taking pictures and hoping for the best, which is what my film days amounted to, all those years.

Today, I try to make each click of the shutter a successful shot, I don't just click away without thinking, I tend to spend some time on each and every shot, even though I don't have to anymore.
 
Daryl said:
Never changed.... Film or Digital. A Premier footy match we would blast away. 30 rolls of 36 was not uncommon. With models you should shoot everytime they move an arm, a leg, a head position. shoot lots. More is better than less.
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IF you can afford it indeed. But travelling to college took up all my expenses, be able to afford film was a real struggle.
 
I dont machine gun but I will take 4 or 5 shots when I am doing action or sport hat I would not have done in film days because of the cost each time you pull the trigger,in fact digital has opened up new areas of photography for me particularly Football and Motor sports.In the days of film I would never have tried these because of the aforementioned cost but now I can experiment merrily and if its rubbish then I learn from my mistakes and just recharge the batteries.
 
I think apart from machine gunning I am now starting to take less notice of the shot content too (because it is more correctable in software) and just starting to concentrate on the main subject far too often now, I like the idea of just taking a 200mb card to ensure more care. Like an alcoholic I might now not be able to give up the extra card space without going through cold turkey. :D
I need help, there should be a place where people can go to get help. :D
 
Digital has enabled me to share photographs far quicker and less expensive than film. There's no wait for the images to go through the soup. It's like polaroid without the cost. I Love It

Just the instruction manual for my Nikon camera is over 400 pages long :nuts: . I don't have one for my film camera I just use it knowing how to do everything I possible want to do with it.

I still use both
 
Digital has made me a far better photographer (okay - i'd got plenty of room for improvemnt :lol:)

I've had a digital SLR for just over a year now - maybe 7000+ actuations in that time. That's the equivalent of maybe 200 rolls of film. Not having to count the cost of every shutter press has allowed me to experiment with lots of techniques i'd struggled to grasp on film, and try ones (such as the water drops and so on) that i'd have never had a chance of attempting on film. Also, the closed feedback loop allows me to shoot, examine the result, tweak and repeat until i'm happy, even with landscape-ey stuff.

After about 6 months of this intensive learning process though, I began worrying that i'd somehow spoiled myself for shooting film - so I bought a very nice mint condition 35mm camera that took the same lenses as my digital, was amazed at the quality kit you could get for around a hundred beer tokens - made the 450D seem like a toy, tbh - and tried film again. Happily the experiment worked - most of the skills i'd learned were transferrable, and the discipline of film (both financial and in exposure lattitude when shooting slide stock - get the exposure +-1/3 stop or forget it) helped me slow back down on the digital side.

So - I can't say that digital is bad, for me it's been great. The immediacy is a big thing - I process/scan my own BnW film and still take a day or so to turn around 36 shots, maybe a couple of days for E6 colour from the labs. With the digital I can have the shots on my computer, run through lightroom (and CS4 if needed) and posted up on t'interweb or given to customers in a couple of hours. I don't miss working with film, because I still work with it. It's a happy compromise, and one that I'm willing to work with while ever Ilford and Fuji are making film.:) Still miss Kodachrome though:'(
 
I shoot digital but in the last year I have proable shot more film than I have in ages.

I also am proable the only film shooter at Oulton Park these days but has digital made me a "machine gunner" the answer no.

Even shooting motor sport I very very have the digital or film camera set to continues shooting.

Do I miss some shots? Maybe but I don't care.

I do know that I do get far more keepers than some others that have the machine gun approach. :D
 
joxby said:
Digital made me shoot film...

bonza....:)
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:plusone:

Digital doesn't make me shoot film but it certainly allows me to. I started off with a film camera which I hadn't got a clue about other than using the auto mode. I then went digital which helped me understand the basics of exposure/shutter speed/DOF etc. Then I went back to film, I like being limited to how many photos I can shoot and trying to make each one count becaus I can think of nothing worse than sitting in front of a PC sorting through dozens of samey looking photos, I find it bad enough whittling 12 frames down to one or two worth printing.

And for me, nothing beats locking myself away in the garage, music on, labouring over my enlarger and developing trays trying to make one good print.

The Darkroom>The Computer ;)
 
I have a habit of machine gunning too, although recently I have started to only take a one or two photos of the same subject (due to constant digs aimed at me by my film using housemate) :p
 
Digital opened up Photography for me and has made it possible for me to rapidly improve :cool:
 
I only went digital in the last 2 years after 40 odd years of film.
Still try to work on the basis of trying to get the shot right first time, although I do appreciate the ability to chimp and correct if necessary.
 
Ajophotog said:
Digital has made me into a click merchant and it is getting worst :( when I used film, I used to take my time and carefully set up the camera to match the situation checking settings as I go but now I am fast becoming a rapid machine gunner. I know it is wrong and I need to curb my ways. what has digital done to you?
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its your photos not the means which are bad..:p
joke!

i agree on the click click...but how many shots did you miss because of film constraints...oncost of film and processing
remember all those dodgy shots go right in the bin with no real expense

if it aint broke and you dont like it...sell it
 
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