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Subject: [OM] Re: REAL photographers use film!
From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:19:42 -0000
Thanks for bringing some of us back to "reality", Walt! 

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-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Walt Wayman
Sent: 13 March 2005 20:01
To: Oly List
Subject: [OM] REAL photographers use film!

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

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