I have gone totally digital with a Canon Digital Rebel and am thrilled with what I can do. I am printing high quality photos on 13 x 19 inch paper. One must remember, it is not just the camera or the number of pixels that is important. To get great results, on must also invest in a high quality computer, printer, and photo editing software. The rewards of shooting and than working on a photograph to achieve just the image that one visulizes are temendous. I would never consider going back to film.
Briefly comment on how you see your film useage in the next six months.
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I can't say that I don't shoot film anymore, but it has curtailed considerably since switching to my Nikon D70; I think I have maybe shot 4 rolls of film in the past 6 months. I'll still keep my film cameras as I will never completely stop using film.
Film is dead for me, mostly due to processing costs and the difficulty of disposing of chemicals when processing own film. The instantaneous nature of digital is a plus plus plus as well for me, digital has revitalized a lifelong love that had palled.
I still prefer a scanned slide over a digital capture. Velvia has much better color saturatuion than any digital capture! I'll go digital when they make a Valvia sensor and a 100% crash proof hard drive. The Nikon D2X runs $5000. I can shoot a ton of film for $5000. The other problem with digital is that they decrease in value worse than a car. I've see 4 year old $3500 D1 go for $400 on Ebay.
I shoot film as much as I ever have, if not more. With digital, you don't have to be any good taking pictures because you can clean it up with your home computer. However, with film, what you see is what you get, and that makes me want to try harder to be a better photographer. I'm proud of the progress I've made with film and will continue as much film as I can on my limited budget. I will have to add digital to my camera bag eventually, but I will always use film!
I work at a photolab for a large retailer and find some weeks our roll count has dropped by a max. of 25% and others it is up by a max of 2%, digital has not taken over yet. The main thing is see, shooting both 35mm and digital is a loss of quality when shooting digital and a loss of convenience when shooting 35mm. When digital slr become more affordable they will dig the grave for 35mm.
My Canon AE-1 P has been carefully put away and will probably stay there. I use a Nikon 880 and Lumix Z10 and shoot many times more pictures than I did with film. I enjoy working with the digital images with Photoshop Elements and other photo programs.
I'm using film for specialty applications and digital for most of my other work. For instance, I use Holga cameras with 120 format film as well as Polaroid films (using a Polaroid back on my Holga). I also shoot 4X5 sheet film using various pinhole cameras. Film isn't dead for me, I just use it as just one of tools to accomplish what I want to.
I will use at least 20 rolls of FUJI NPS-160 36 exposure color print film. I at the moment like film as I can see what I am going to shoot and can modify the composition with what I want to happen, with shutter speed, aperture, filters, and bracketing...
I'm strictly a traditional black & white photographer who enjoys the darkroom process and working with medium and large format gear. Digital has its place. I worry that it will kill the manufacture of traditional film and darkroom products.