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**Alan Browne** · February 27th 10, 03:05 PM posted to rec.photo.equipment.medium-format

On 10-02-26 23:15 , wrote:
After shooting mostly digital for years (and getting burnt out on my
photography) I am shifting gears and going back to shooting 120 film.
While obviously shooting digital is easier and cheaper, I'm just not
getting the results from my landscape photography like I used to. What
made me realize I want to start shooting film again was when I got some
proofs back from an old Ikoflex TLR I was given and had repaired. They
had a smooth tonal, 3D look I haven't seen in years!

It wasn't even a top shelf model (had the 3 element novar lens) but when
I saw the 5X5 proofs, I remember why I loved shooting medium format
film. I'm sure not gonna argue about why these images convinced me to
clean up my darkroom and go back to analog photography (including not
scan and print but optically printing again too) but there is something
magical about the look of an image from this medium to me. To be fair, I
was never happy with the results from 35mm film either..

I also found it interesting the local camera store told me film sales
has picked up and some of the working pro's have gone back to film for
some of their projects. I'm sure this is the point where some of the die
hard digital guys will explain that "You just don't what your doing as
digital is far superiour".. To those people, I could care less if you or
some web site has all sorts of data to "prove it".. I know what I see
and am going back to shooting 120 film :-)

Good for you. My 'blad does not get the use it deserves and a lot of
film is sleeping in the freezer.

By the way, the term "analog" isn't very good. Just say film. It's not
an analog, it's an image.

(For that matter what makes a digital camera work is the very analog
sensor and bucket brigade emptying of same).

You can also use a digital camera to preview a scene before committing
it to film. On my digital I can even preview in B&W...

A major attraction of digital is that you can shoot a lot more, with no
cost, loss or penalty and of course convenience. I have a 45 minute
round trip to drop off E-6 and again to pick it up.

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