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Going back to film...
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 :-) Stephanie |
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