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Re: A laugh out loud Ken Rockwell moment, and a serious question
In reply to ocean7,
May 5, 2012
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ocean7 wrote:
I wonder what you did with all those 60,000 pictures? Throw most of them away I guess? Certainly you didn't print all of them or even a good portion of them, or else as you said you'd be bankrupt. Maybe you posted them online, but who would look thru a gallery of 60,000 images? KR has a point - if you shoot more deliberately and take only images that you think you will print or publish (as was common in the film days), then indeed film may be cheaper.
I think the largest difference between film and digital is that digital enables different shooting styles. With digital it is easier and cheaper to shoot first and think later. With film, it's almost necessary to think first and shoot later. I don't think either style is superior to other. Difference style for different tools. And nothing forces digital photogs to shoot first and think later. I know some photographers who can and will get the picture they want with a one frame. Anyway, they are happy they can confirm the success right a way and if necessary reshoot.
Anyway, using film doesn't necessary mean photographer thinks before shoots. As was a case with one of the finlands most famous nature photographer who shot bats and when he developed the film, got 36 black frames. And same day one amateur photographer (with no surplus money to develop ten rolls of film to get one picture) developed a film which had almost half of its frames succesful (same topic, bats).
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