Joel,
I have the same feelings about Digital "vs" Film as you describe. You
describe it far better than I ever could. For my usage though I have
left the OM's alone completely since I switched to the E system. That
does not mean I dislike the OM's at all. I still admire their technical
marvell and simplicity to use. But for the complete workflow digital
rules in my house.
Wiliam
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Joel Wilcox [mailto:jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx]
> Verzonden: maandag 3 augustus 2009 18:50
> Aan: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Onderwerp: Re: [OM] Film vs digital (OM Lot)
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:03 PM, DrT (George
> Themelis)<drt-3d@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Usually people on craigslist price old film cameras as
> though digital
> >> never happened...
> >
> > Did digital really happen? Someone, please, wake me up! :)
> >
> > I wonder if there are people in this list *actively* shooting film
> > with their Olympus OM cameras. If so, why?
> >
> > Even though I use digital exclusively for "work" (web/ebay), for
> > personal photography I use slide film in my stereo cameras.
> >
> > Nothing in digital compares to the quality and realism of
> looking at a
> > pair of sharp stereo slides in a good 3-D viewer. Progress
> is being
> > made, but I have not seen anything to convince me to switch
> to digital
> > stereo photography.... So, I keep shooting/mounting stereo slides,
> > despite the cost and time required.
>
> I guess I'll take the bait, though anything with "vs" in the
> subject seems likely just to stir the pot.
>
> Digital has been happening for me since 1995, when I bought
> my first film scanner. I shot slides nearly exclusively
> until 2004, then my experiment with digital source
> photography began. I kept thinking I was going to continue
> shooting film a lot, but the batteries mostly died in the
> bodies as they sat on the shelf.
>
> I'm shooting my remaining Kodachrome at the moment in an OM-4
> and enjoying it a lot. While I am enjoying it, it does not
> displace my DSLR. Like most things analog, film photography
> is being displaced, if not replaced, at a time when it is in
> full leaf and flower. It has never been better, really. It
> is extremely good and it is a known quantity. If you like
> the look of film, whether you process it via a traditional or
> digital darkroom, you really have no reason to believe that
> you will somehow come to dislike how it looks. Good is good.
>
> If I were doing a lot of color darkroom or enjoyed firing up
> the slide projector, I would certainly favor shooting film
> more than I do currently. But I like the E-system a lot.
> The lenses are excellent, the cameras are exciting to use,
> and the results speak for themselves. For a manual
> focus-only system, OM is excellent as far as it goes. My
> experience with it has greatly enriched my ability to get the
> most out of the E-system. The reverse is true as well. I
> can't really choose between them any more than I could choose
> between one of my parents.
>
> And I don't see why I need to. I like them both and both
> serve my needs, though I expect to put many more exposures
> through my DSLRs than my OMs. I certainly don't need to
> dislike digital capture in order to like OM. Digital
> photography has helped me further my skills in photography in
> general, and that serves my film photography as well.
>
> Furthermore, downstream in the process digital has returned
> much better results than I was ever able to get in the
> darkroom, particularly in color photography, and I have more
> or less been able to match my darkroom BW prints closely and
> even improved tonalities slightly, though I haven't found a
> near-archival inkjet paper I like for BW printing. I would
> definitely agree that the conventional darkroom rules in BW
> photography. But with color, for me, no way.
>
> Life is good. People get restless with one thing or another,
> and I'm no exception, but life is still good, particularly
> when there are options.
>
> Joel W.
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