I enjoy film, 35mm and digital and I enjoy being here,
John Renda

Speaking of semantics, what the hell is copake ham?

Cheers,

Don Bryant

"Copake" (in upstate New York) is one of three places I call home. The others are NYC and Tucson, AZ.

"Ham" refers to another interest of mine: amateur radio

For reasons not worth boring you with, copake_ham is my ID on APUG so I kept it to use here for consistency purposes. ;)

"Copake" (in upstate New York) is one of three places I call home. The others are NYC and Tucson, AZ.

"Ham" refers to another interest of mine: amateur radio

For reasons not worth boring you with, copake_ham is my ID on APUG so I kept it to use here for consistency purposes. ;)
Well you aren't boring me but I've been racking my brain trying to remember if I've heard of that kind of ham before. :)

And yes I recognized your handle from APUG.

Welcome to Hybrid Photo.

Don Bryant

Hello,
This will be my first post here. I have been lurking for a while though.

At this time I am primarily using film. 35mm and medium format. I will get farther into the digital world one day soon.

I'm an all film guy, and I haven't shot a roll of color in a year.
35mm
6x6 via Rolleiflex, Hasselblad, Agfa folder, or Holga
6x7 via roll film back on Osaka 4x5
4x5 as above
5x7 when I can get my Century No.2 up and running.
I love film and will keep shooting it. When they stop making it some day, I'll find a way to coat my own.
- Thomas

I'm almost an all-film guy, though I do enjoy toting a little Nikon d40x for travel and every now and then it gives me something I really like.

Filmwise....
35mm: F100, XA and XA2
6x6: Mamiya 6 (beloved)
6x7/8: RB67 pro SD
6x9:Horseman VH (selling this currently, PM if interested)
4x5: crown graphic and DIY ultrawide gizmo
5x7: king poco (incredibly light) and rittreck view (heavy!)
8x10: cambo monorail; also has 5x7 and 4x6 backs and I use this beast for shooting the apo process lenses for some of my UV and IR stuff.

I do enjoy colour and have been shooting velvia 100 , provia 400x and 64T; for fun I like fp100c instant film. For b&w I gravitate toward fp4+ and hp5+, and I also use type 55, fuji fp100b, Rollei IR and agfa scala. I also do <gasp> b&w analogue and digital conversions from colour slide. Blasphemy... I hope that what is mentioned on this site stays on this site.... ;)

Most recently I have been experimenting with prints from LVTs. I got into that because of a damaged neg, but now see some other uses for it.

I guess I'll be something of a pariah around here, I'm mainly digital. For most of my shooting it gets the job done & I've gotten a good handle on it. However, I am here because of venturing back to film with a Mamiya 645Pro and a Holga--and am loving what I'm getting. The first roll out of the Mamiya was a completely unexpected resounding success. :D I have several more rolls waiting for scanner time.

Odd, I was just telling someone last week that I feel like a pariah here because I don't necessarily embrace everything digital. I think the important thing is to accept that there are different constituencies here; we don't all use digital for the same purposes or share the same philosophy about imagemaking, but there's room for all of us. Welcome to hybridphoto.

I can't even begin to express how much I dislike the word "capture" for how an image is recorded, but never mind that. I use almost exclusively film for photographic images: Provia 100 (4x5 or 67) but now I'm starting to use Provia 400 more. I'm not set up at the moment to develop BW film, but when I was, I liked FP4, 4x5 or 8x10. I do have a cheap little digital camera, and I've actually made some decent small gum prints from images recorded by it. But it's not really the sort of camera to use for serious work, and I'm not going to buy a more serious one anytime soon.
kt

Film!

Depends what I walk out the door with, which mostly depends on my mood at the time. It usually has little to do with the capture medium and is rather more about which camera(s) I feel like working with that day.

I'm somewhat indifferent to my choice of tools be it film or digital. I don't need digital at this point in time, film is still available, I already have film cameras and I'm impartial to batteries. So right now it is still film.

Digital SLR for colour work, Film SLR for b/w.

For colour work I really couldn't justify staying on film. It was getting increasingly expensive to process colour films, then getting 2nd rate scans. Started on a Fuji S2Pro (fantastic velvia mode), brief spell with a Nikon D70, finally settled on a Sony Alpha. The Fuji was just too damn big, I never bonded with the D70 - felt very unbalanced (in my opinion). Sony Alpha is just right.

Not at all happy with the results of digital B/W; too clean, too clinical, not what b&w is all about. Admittedly, I have seen some fantastic b&w digital shots, but the ones I like all show signs of heavy photoshop abuse. Seems to defeat the object to me - like listening to a CD and adding noise seperately because it sounds better.

Mat

... what is your prefered method for image capture?

Kind of depends.......;)

Prior to taking a hiatus from photography in mid-1990's I did film in multiple formats from 35mm through 4x5, and just a pinch of 8x10.

A few years back I started again.

Walk-about: predominately digital, But a tad of 35mm (a Nikon F with non-metering prism, 50mm f/2, and incident meter, Tri-x).

Main interest: Landscape & New Topographic, Mostly digital, growing amount (for landscape) of 6x6 B&W film (Yashicamat & Rolleiflex TLR's). A little Velvia 50 in 35mm also (nikon F2A, FM2's).

Environmental Portraits; Predominately digital.

100% film. I only use digital for auction photos.

On Summer vacation I shot 15 rolls of slide film and 20 rolls of B&W. The results have really blown me away - better than anything I got with digital.

I'm also having tons of fun: TLRs, compacts, RFs, folders, not to mention all the great emulsions out there :)

I'm still trying to get my head round film photography after nearly fifty years, and don't have the patience to learn a new medium I'm still shooting 100% film, but am looking into buying a film scanner that takes 35mm and 6x6 negs, so I can put my work on the internet, but I understand my computer needs a more up to date operating system first, I think I'll just buy a new computer.

"The King is dead! long live the King" just made the switch to medium format digital- Phase One camera P20+ and I will never shoot film again!, 12 stops of latitude, 16 bits from the get go, 1 hour time exposures with no reciprocity failure, all my blad lenses fit with an adapter, DOF is back. The files are fabulous. Rent one for a day and prove it to yourself.