Nav: Home
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
May 26, 2012, 00:59

Login with username, password and session length

MicrostockGroup

Microstockgroup Sponsors


« previous next »
Pages: 1 [2] Print

Topic: Is Digital Dead?  

(Read 3382 times)
digiology


« Reply #25 on: March 08, 2009, 22:19 »

HAHA what a funny thread title.

I have had my darkroom equipment packed away for over 10 years now. I am too lazy to set it up. I am thinking of donating the equipment to a local high-school but it's hard to let go...

Logged


DepositPhotos.com
null



« Reply #26 on: March 08, 2009, 23:24 »

One of the advantages of digital is you don't get brown fingers by poking the sheets around in the developer.  Grin


Ignore | Logged


Bateleur


Dreamstime GaugeiStock Gauge
« Reply #27 on: March 09, 2009, 04:12 »


... for some time now Ken Rockwell has been berating digital ...


He's being deliberately controversial to drive traffic to his web site. Attention-seeking, but otherwise meaningless. Did you read what he had to say about microstock a little while back?



Ignore | Logged


stormchaser


« Reply #28 on: March 09, 2009, 06:28 »

I do believe every beginning serios photog should shoot some film, even if they need to borrow a camera. It keeps you more honest, having to get a shot in a limited number of frames instead of being able to click away using a 8GB card.

I still on occasion get a roll of tungsten and go out shooting at night, buildings and such. Cool stuff. I don't really miss the film days though.

Ken Rockwell, I think I'll pass thank you. I prefer byThom for equipment stuff, or even Thomas Hawk to just relax and look at some cool photos.


Ignore | Logged


Pixart


Dreamstime GaugeiStock Gauge
« Reply #29 on: March 09, 2009, 10:52 »

It's not just Rockwell, I've noticed MANY photographers who have declared they are going back to film in the last few weeks, it's kindof a quiet revolution that is going on.   Last night I read another blogger who was going back.  I would never be able to go back to film unless I transitioned into a new kind of work (what would that be I wonder?)

1.  All my work is uploaded through ROES or FTP.  Me, drive to the lab twice?  YUCK
2.  I'm too much of a chimp and addicted to that LCD
3.  I'm too cheap to burn all that film when I can knock off a hundred shots of some Redpolls in the bird feeder and only keep a couple frames.


Ignore | Logged


goldenangel


Dreamstime GaugeiStock Gauge
« Reply #30 on: March 09, 2009, 11:09 »

I enjoyed shooting slides for a long time but it has also been a long time since I did that. I love the colors on slide film and I enjoy looking at REAL slide shows. however, all of this cannot compare to what we can do with digital photography in terms of processing. I also very much like that fact that i don't have to pay for film rolls and developing! Smiley

If anyone has any info on good but affordable slide scanning service, please let me know. I have a lot of slides waiting to be digitized.

Thank you!


Ignore | Logged


tan510jomast


« Reply #31 on: March 09, 2009, 11:39 »

I enjoyed shooting slides for a long time but it has also been a long time since I did that. I love the colors on slide film and I enjoy looking at REAL slide shows. however, all of this cannot compare to what we can do with digital photography in terms of processing. I also very much like that fact that i don't have to pay for film rolls and developing! Smiley

If anyone has any info on good but affordable slide scanning service, please let me know. I have a lot of slides waiting to be digitized.

Thank you!

HP has a scanner that scans slides up to 2 1/4 by 2 1/4 . i used to scan my kodachrome and then post porcess them with PS. the scanner was not very expensive, and that was 4 years ago. i am sure HP has a better one for less money today.

Logged


Vonkara



« Reply #32 on: March 09, 2009, 12:05 »

Scanning rolls?? Really... LOL

I'm sometimes nostalgic also, but I won't go back to the toilet outside with newspapers.


Ignore | Logged


RacePhoto



« Reply #33 on: March 09, 2009, 12:28 »


Rock Kenwell???  whos that?

The guy who invented "Remote Trolling".  Grin

What he does is pick some subject. Write something absurd but marginally close to factual and waits for people to bite and discuss it. Then they come view his site to see if someone really wrote something that ridiculous. Ken labels himself as satire and humor. Most people call that an escape clause when they get caught for being full of BS and making things up.

Look it worked. There's a thread here about the million monkeys shooting stock, the million monkeys with spray and pray digital cameras, and the latest is digital is dead, which ignores all reason and logic to stretch a point and attract attention to Ken and his site.

If you have your own blog, you can remote troll and spam with impunity. This also saves him the time of going to forums and posting his ravings, because other people do it for him. The guy is a genius.

I'm sure he's a nice person and has fun with this, driving people to write about him and his site. Nice way to satisfy his need for attention and feed his ego.  Kiss

Ken Rockwell, for amusement only, don't attempt this at home.


Ignore | Logged


jim_h


« Reply #34 on: March 09, 2009, 13:55 »

If a few pros are going back to film because they feel they can't get the same quality with digital - that will be temporary. Film will die once and for all, when a next generation of digital sensor technology truly surpasses it. 

Logged


null



« Reply #35 on: March 09, 2009, 14:27 »

I'm sometimes nostalgic also, but I won't go back to the toilet outside with newspapers.

And withoutTongue


Ignore | Logged


Vonkara



« Reply #36 on: March 09, 2009, 14:34 »

I'm sometimes nostalgic also, but I won't go back to the toilet outside with newspapers.

And withoutTongue
Whit leaves? That's even earlier LOL


Ignore | Logged


goldenangel


Dreamstime GaugeiStock Gauge
« Reply #37 on: March 09, 2009, 14:47 »

Scanning rolls?? Really... LOL

I'm sometimes nostalgic also, but I won't go back to the toilet outside with newspapers.

I have many memories on those slides, and if I had them in digital format, it would be a lot easier to share them and look at them more often. Also, if the scan quality is high enough, I believe I would even have some stock photos there.


Ignore | Logged


WarrenPrice

Dreamstime GaugeiStock Gauge
« Reply #38 on: March 09, 2009, 15:59 »

Scanning rolls?? Really... LOL

I'm sometimes nostalgic also, but I won't go back to the toilet outside with newspapers.

I have many memories on those slides, and if I had them in digital format, it would be a lot easier to share them and look at them more often. Also, if the scan quality is high enough, I believe I would even have some stock photos there.

I'm working on an assignment now using pictures from 1983.  I don't believe we even had autofocus in those days.  I know I didn't.   Grin


Ignore | Logged


goldenangel


Dreamstime GaugeiStock Gauge
« Reply #39 on: March 09, 2009, 20:22 »

Cheesy I remember the old Leica my mom was using, no autofocus as well Smiley I was mostly shoting slides in the nineties, so auto focus was already there Smiley I still have the F70 from that time, the film cover was broken by the security people at San Francisco airport and it was on my way to vacation. Imagine being on vacation with disposable cameras only Cheesy


Ignore | Logged


Envateo Photo ToolsMicrostock Insider
Pages: 1 [2] Print 
« previous next »
Jump to:  


Related Topics
Subject Started by Replies Views Last post
Dead?
Dreamstime.com
hatman12 24 3121 Last post March 20, 2007, 13:31
by Adkok
Stockphotoking - definitely dead?
New Sites - General
madelaide 0 753 Last post July 08, 2007, 14:38
by madelaide
Is SlapperTown dead....? « 1 2 »
SnapVillage.com
hatman12 40 4997 Last post December 07, 2007, 00:29
by litifeta
StockXpert Dead? « 1 2 »
StockXpert.com
Alatriste 49 6343 Last post September 28, 2008, 10:08
by Pixart
Coffins are dead boring...
Off Topic
shank_ali 10 1665 Last post January 19, 2009, 21:01
by Tuilay

TinyPortal v1.0.5 beta 1© Bloc