Film or Digital... How Did You Learn Photography?

5 years 10 months ago #588620 by Luca
I'm guessing just the older peeps might fall in that category.  But just making some conversation this morning.  I'm feeling it may be a relax day with Netflix and my computer.


digital for me. 


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5 years 10 months ago #588657 by garyrhook
I was interested in photography when I was young, but the cost of entry for 35mm was prohibitive for me. Not until about 15 years ago with a digital camera that had a manual mode, and not seriously until 2012 with a decent consumer DSLR.

The rest is history. :rofl:


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5 years 10 months ago #588676 by Stanly
Film, however because of cost of film. Most of my experience however was picked up with digital. 

Nikon Z6 | Nikon FM10 | Nikon D80 | Nikon 50mm f/1.8D | Nikon 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-S VR | 35-105mm f/3.5 Macro | 80-200mm f/4.5 | SB600 | Pocket Wizard II
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5 years 10 months ago #588686 by fmw
My first camera was a Zeiss Contaflex 35mm SLR with a Zeiss Tessar 45mm f2.8 fixed lens.  My second was a Speed Graphic 4X5 press camera with a Kodak Ektar 135mm lens.  Digital photography wouldn't exist for several decades.  For fun I've included an image made with my Contaflex in 1962.  The subject is the famous Venus de Milo photographed in St. Peter's basilica in Rome.



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5 years 10 months ago #588772 by Jared-Weaver
Digital for me. I was always interested in photography but equipment was very scarce where I lived. The nearest camera store was over 200 miles away and maked up to hell because it had to be shipped in. I didn't get my first DLSR until long after film became obsloete.


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5 years 10 months ago #588782 by Ian Stone
Getting serious, for me it was digital


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5 years 10 months ago #588785 by effron
Film, in the late sixties and early seventies....and I miss NOTHING about film photography except maybe those simplified old manual cameras....

Why so serious?
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5 years 9 months ago #589046 by fmw

effron wrote: Film, in the late sixties and early seventies....and I miss NOTHING about film photography except maybe those simplified old manual cameras....


You would be a good candidate for the Fuji X system.  The cameras operate much like those old manual cameras but with modern technology.


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5 years 9 months ago #589193 by Amy Porter
35mm film camera that my father gave me


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5 years 9 months ago #590088 by effron

fmw wrote:

effron wrote: Film, in the late sixties and early seventies....and I miss NOTHING about film photography except maybe those simplified old manual cameras....


You would be a good candidate for the Fuji X system.  The cameras operate much like those old manual cameras but with modern technology.


If I was starting out today, you'd probably be correct. I'm already quite invested in my Nikon gear and happy....Plus, I still own all those old filmers, and they're all in pretty good condition.

Why so serious?
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5 years 9 months ago #590261 by Stanly

effron wrote: Film, in the late sixties and early seventies....and I miss NOTHING about film photography except maybe those simplified old manual cameras....


:agree:  but I do enjoy the nostalgic feeling of using an old camera.  However the film processing is such a PITA .  

Nikon Z6 | Nikon FM10 | Nikon D80 | Nikon 50mm f/1.8D | Nikon 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-S VR | 35-105mm f/3.5 Macro | 80-200mm f/4.5 | SB600 | Pocket Wizard II
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5 years 9 months ago #592152 by Ozzie_Traveller
G'day all

I received my first camera somewhere around 1955 and it was 120-size roll film job that took 8x images per roll. My first SLR was a Pentax in the early-60s and over the following 40 years I went from Pentax screw-mount lenses to K-mount Ricoh & Pentax, along with lenses from 20mm to 1000mm used for nature stuff

Nowadays I am tired of the size & weight of dSLRs and huge lenses, so I enjoy fixed lens superzooms more than SLRs. Changing lenses no longer excites me and I get all the features of a dSLR without the weight etc.

The apartment walls are littered with photos on all the walls with 90% of my prints are 8" x 12"s with many 24" or 30" wide panos from the small sensor cameras show me that I don't really need a big camera any more

Phil from the great land Downunder
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Phil from the great land Downunder
www.flickr.com/photos/ozzie_traveller/sets/

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5 years 9 months ago #592166 by Nikon Shooter

effron wrote: Film, in the late sixties and early seventies....and I miss NOTHING about film photography.

:agree:
I converted all my operation to digital only when the D3X was released.
Later,I acquired the D3S after for the extreme low light capability and  
other models for their high pixel count… mainly.

effron wrote: except maybe those simplified old manual cameras....

I feel so well with the more sophisticated digitals that I don't share the
nostalgia!

Light is free… capturing it is not!
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5 years 9 months ago #592170 by Shadowfixer1
There wasn't a choice when I started with my first 35mm camera in the early eighties. I was a quick adopter of digital and got in the game fairly early in 2001 with a Minolta Dimage 7 which I still have and it still works as good as it ever did.
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