Going to stop shooting digital....

[John W Peterson]

I assume you mean kodachrome. I can't find anyone local that can develop it. They send it out, it comes back in a month and they tell me that they didn't realise what it was (their techs have never seen it) so they inadvertantly cross processed it. Arrrgh !

So now I shoot Provia. The techs "still remember" that stuff. Not as incredible as Kodachrome, but still very very nice. My guess is that fuji will be the last film producer still standing. They will probably cut their film product to may be just 3 emulsions and we will have to "take it or leave it". We will come, too late, to realise what we have lost. I'll have the best MF equipment in the world, and nothing to put in it.
Best of luck with your project - it sounds like a truely wonderful undertaking.

 

[carl english]

Big film Big flop!! I'm sorry but you will have to do better than this, I've worked with med/large format for years and would not have submitted this image anywhere.
Your first shot however is excellent a great image.

Be very careful when shooting mixed formats, theres a danger of becoming a "jack of all trades"!
I wish you well.

 

[Film_Ruled]

Not sure what you mean. This is still 35mm. The tonal range is what I am showing here. The 200 MB scan is pretty detailed. Dunno, maybe you just don't like the shot..?

Big film Big flop!! I'm sorry but you will have to do better than
this, I've worked with med/large format for years and would not
have submitted this image anywhere.
Your first shot however is excellent a great image.
Be very careful when shooting mixed formats, theres a danger of
becoming a "jack of all trades"!
I wish you well.

--

Disclaimer, these are only my opinions and are based my findings and should not be
construed as gospel or legally binding..

 

[Mark Smith145430]

Great stuff!!

I love the first shot, but the one of the woman with the guitar could have been shot with a lower angle- so that i don't see you in the glass behind her.
Otherwise fantastic start, I'd love to see more as you shoot them!
Kindest regards
Mark
--
http://www.photo-utopia.blogspot.com/

 

[chuxter]

Time to wake you guys up:

Kodachrome 64 shot with a Leica M6 .72, 35mm Summicron M F2.0
Aspheric at F2.0.;

Terrible grain! Shoulda held out for Kodachrome 32 or even 25? ;-)

--
Charlie Davis
Nikon 5700 & Sony R1
CATS #25
PAS Scribe @ http://www.here-ugo.com/PAS_List.htm
HomePage: http://www.1derful.info
'I brake for pixels...'

 

[carl english]

Not sure what you mean. This is still 35mm. The tonal range is what
I am showing here. The 200 MB scan is pretty detailed. Dunno, maybe
you just don't like the shot..?

I apologize, did not see beyond Hasselblad, and assumed med format.

Big film Big flop!! I'm sorry but you will have to do better than
this, I've worked with med/large format for years and would not
have submitted this image anywhere.
Your first shot however is excellent a great image.
Be very careful when shooting mixed formats, theres a danger of
becoming a "jack of all trades"!
I wish you well.

--
Disclaimer, these are only my opinions and are based my findings
and should not be
construed as gospel or legally binding..

 

[Petteri Sulonen]

That's some good stuff. I especially liked the XPan environmental portrait -- it's an unusual but really successful use of the medium.

BTW, in your shoes I'd sell the 5D's rather than put them in storage: they'll depreciate so much in two years that you'll very likely be able to buy their next version back for more or less the same that you got for them.

Kodachrome rules. It's what first started me on color -- I'd only been shooting B/W until I discovered it. This one is from 1987:



Petteri
--
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[mschf]

--
Martin -- http://mjp.pixelpeep.com
'those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.'

 

[fuzzytalz]

knows what's to love about it: tight grain structure, distinct color signature, smooth tonal transitions, biting sharpness. Every time I go on a shoot, I wish clients were still willing to pay for film, cuz I'm much rather be shooting film in most cases for its aesthetic qualities.

When ya gonna post a gallery of these images on the web for all to see, man?

Time to wake you guys up:

Kodachrome 64 shot with a Leica M6 .72, 35mm Summicron M F2.0
Aspheric at F2.0.

--
Garland Cary

 

[donaldsc]

How about sending us a new message when you decide to give up corn flakses. It will certainly be as interesting and useful to us as the one you just sent.
--
Don

 

[slowzuki]

I'm both excited and upset. I have a half dozen rolls of processing included kodachrome with images on them that I found recently. Sounds like I can't mail them out now.

I still have a handful of unexposed rolls, I was thinking of shooting them a few months ago. Thats what I get for setting down the slr's a few years ago.

For all the people upset with the poster, most of us started with film and will always be attached to it in some way. Maybe I'll pull out my little rollei or the minolta xk and load some Ilford b&w film to feel better.

 

[Kenneth Margulies]

Jay Peterman!

i think that was the name of the guy in the Seinfeld show that Elaine worked for...the clothing catalog owner who required Elaine to write romantic, poetic descriptions of ordinary clothing to sell it at extraordinary prices.
they made fun of the pretentious writing style.
at least i got the joke that you were trying to write like a pretentious fool...

like anyone gave a hoot about you "high paying customers" or your ancient film camera systems with great glass...
ha ha! very funny!!!!

......for awhile.

Not because I don't like it. I actually love it now that it is full
frame with brilliant image quality. The pair of 5D's I use, the
great primes, wow, what a whole new world, entirely. Good profits
too, which is why I am able to take a sebatical. The stuff is crazy
good in low light. There really is no such thing anymore, certainly
not bad light, just different.

I have been brewing something though, something really cool. When I
started the idea two years ago, I had just one Nikon FM3 and two
nice primes. Now I have 4 bodies and 11 lenses, underwater
housings, aerial gyros. I have the Nikon system again....the best
ever made. I also have a complete Hasselblad Xpan system...sick!

It's for a film, about a film, a brilliant film....the best ever
made in my opinion.

With the exception of key high paying clients that need me a bit of
the year, starting this Fall, I am not shooting digital for awhile.
It's a shame the digital gear will sit. I can't really sell but it
is time for a new chapter. A life defining one for me.

So for two years or more, I am outta here. I'll put my stuff in
storage, I rent out my place and I get as much grant money as I can
and I do something...that if I don't do right now........I will
spend my whole life in horrible regret over.

So yeah, Canon rules the roost, kind of. The two FM3's, two F4's
and a Hasselblad Xpan with all the glass, no contest. This film in
use, nooooooo contest. This could be bitchen.

It will be.

I'll come back to digital, it is not going anywhere....but the film
is and soon.

It's a good time to be a photographer......... such a good time...

 

[EarlRutherford]

Sorry, maybe I've just had a bad day. But you are getting a grant to shoot snapshots? Also, if the past is any kind of indicator at all, it seems as if only amateurs, in an educational way, get grants of this kind. I thought from your first few posts, that you were a professional.

 

[Gene E. McCluney]

This is huge dude, it has nothing to do with digital and everything
to do about photography.

It is truly incredible how people think today.

Amen. I have always shot film for my personal projects, and I don't intend to stop now, although I am fully digital for a great deal of my paying work. Photography is photography. Film is just as good as digital. They are just different. If you can work both, you are a better photographer.

McCluney Commercial Photography

 

[donaldsc]

Lots of us started with film. I just had my Canon FtB refurbished. However, I do not make a major public announcement every time I shoot a roll of film. I just do it.
--
Don

 

[Bob Blount]

Why would you think we care?

Have a nice trip.

Very sensitive for a "Psychologist (Retired)." How did you get so bitter?

--
bob

The Blind Pig Guild
A photo/travel club looking for members
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Travel Galleries
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--
Bob,
'There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.' Ansel Adams
Great Pro1
Casio Z750

 

[Richard Briscoe]

You really are contradicting yourself.

First you start a thread that makes little sense and is mostly hypothetical (about funding at the very least) and then argue with people who bother to ask just what you are talking about. If it is such a big secret that you want to keep why then did you start this rather pointless thread?

Besides, Galen Rowell wrote an "Ode to Kodachrome" a few years ago that probably covered the subject.

Have a good trip.

 

[DerrickWalker]

This shot doesn't contain a flower or an insect, an apparent requirement of every single shot on the dpreview board.

Good shot, nicely composed.

-Derrick

 

[Film_Ruled]

Meanwhile, in the real world, something is coming. A mark in history, a ripple in the life water that is ours.

You see, this is my calling. It has the attention of not the local lab guy, but a former president, the Library of Congress, National Geoghrapic, some of the photographers who shoot for them, many of my peers, fans, clients...

Nothing.....and I mean nothing you say can diminish the gift that will be how I love this, share this...

Give this to you all.....

You see, I am already successful by any accountants bias. But it is surely more than this.

More than you can take, obviously.

But one day, you will know my smile, my love, my gift.

One day, you will join me in this.

The energy that I have become. But it is not me, so don't hold me against it or it against me.

Just understand, that just like any other once in a life time, human spirit defining moment, I will place my self in a look, a life that has been filed under:

Next..........

Would you not want to hear Chopin do it one more time, for real?

Why reduce your life and scoff?"

Rejoice

That is all I am telling you to do.....

......for awhile.

Not because I don't like it. I actually love it now that it is full
frame with brilliant image quality. The pair of 5D's I use, the
great primes, wow, what a whole new world, entirely. Good profits
too, which is why I am able to take a sebatical. The stuff is crazy
good in low light. There really is no such thing anymore, certainly
not bad light, just different.

I have been brewing something though, something really cool. When I
started the idea two years ago, I had just one Nikon FM3 and two
nice primes. Now I have 4 bodies and 11 lenses, underwater
housings, aerial gyros. I have the Nikon system again....the best
ever made. I also have a complete Hasselblad Xpan system...sick!

It's for a film, about a film, a brilliant film....the best ever
made in my opinion.

With the exception of key high paying clients that need me a bit of
the year, starting this Fall, I am not shooting digital for awhile.
It's a shame the digital gear will sit. I can't really sell but it
is time for a new chapter. A life defining one for me.

So for two years or more, I am outta here. I'll put my stuff in
storage, I rent out my place and I get as much grant money as I can
and I do something...that if I don't do right now........I will
spend my whole life in horrible regret over.

So yeah, Canon rules the roost, kind of. The two FM3's, two F4's
and a Hasselblad Xpan with all the glass, no contest. This film in
use, nooooooo contest. This could be bitchen.

It will be.

I'll come back to digital, it is not going anywhere....but the film
is and soon.

It's a good time to be a photographer......... such a good time...

--

Disclaimer, these are only my opinions and are based my findings and should not be
construed as gospel or legally binding..

 

[Mark Smith145430]

Lots of us started with film. I just had my Canon FtB refurbished.
However, I do not make a major public announcement every time I
shoot a roll of film. I just do it.
--
Don

Yes but Don how many of us are being sponsored by National Geographic?

makes your "I just do it" statement look pretty silly!!!

Most of the people here don't get why the OP has put away his DSLR, they take it personally, disreguarding his fantastic assignment.
Quite frankly I wish I was in his position!!!
--
http://photo-utopia.blogspot.com/