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Subject: [OM] Re: REAL photographers use film!
From: Charles Sdunek <csdunek@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:40:51 -0500
Cheering!!!!

Charles



Walt Wayman wrote:

>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
>
>--
>"Anything more than 500 yards from 
>the car just isn't photogenic." --
>  
>

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