Your preferred method for capture?

[Don Bryant]

Perhaps this is the first post to the hybrid photo website so I thought I would start by asking what is your prefered method for image capture?

Mine is still film for a lot of reasons, though I do have interest in digital capture.

Don Bryant

[Karate Dad]

I still use film as well...haven't quite found what I like in a digital camera yet.

John

[terri]

Film, all the way. Mainly B&W print film or slide film for color. I actually enjoy shooting more on older film cameras, too - love the weight and feel of them. I've never met a digital camera that held that kind of appeal.

I enjoy alternative photographic processes, and I simply have to have a transparency to get on with it.

[MAGNAchrom]

Perhaps this is the first post to the hybrid photo website so I thought I would start by asking what is your prefered method for image capture?

65% Medium format: 6x7 w/ Kodak Portra 400NC or Portra 160NC
10% Large format: BetterLight scanning back
25% Large format: 6x9, 6x12 w/ Kodak Portra 400NC or Portra 160NC
1% Large format: 4x5 sheet film

J Michael Sullivan
Editor/Publisher, MAGNAchrom
www.magnachrom.com

[David A. Goldfarb]

Still pretty exclusively a film shooter. I have an old Coolpix 990 that I use mostly on a copy stand for archiving documents and occasionally for quick shots of things I'm selling online or for digitizing negs, slides or prints for the web, but other than that, it's film, mostly 4x5" and larger, and mostly B&W.

[Jeremy]

Lately it has all been digital capture, but it's usually about 66% film (120 in the diana clone or holga or large format) and 33% digital.

[Craig Griffiths]

40% large format (4x5) Black and White
40% large format (4x5) Colour transparency
15% 35mm colour transparency
5% Digital Slr

I only use digital for snapshots, anything serious is done on film then scanned and printed on an Epson 2400. Any large prints are done by a local digital lab.

[Nicole]

B&W : Film & hand printed. Nothing better IMO.
Colour : Transparency and digital.
Family snapshots : Film and tranny - the kids love those old slideshows.

Kind regards,
Nicole

[tom_micklin]

mostly medium format lately (hasselblad with a pinhole body cap)
a lot of Large format when I have time....just got a nice 4x5 shen hao and will be using that a lot.

[Dave Parker]

I would say film is my preferred method of capture and about 97% of what I do is film, but for certain things, my customers have demanded instant gratification, so I do shoot digital once in a while, all of my wedding customers asked about digital this summer, so we shot 95% of them film and 5% digital.

Dave