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George morris said:
Anyone hear anymore about a Canon 60D unveiling? The drums are beating.
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Here is a rumor: it will be called 7D, perhaps to finally end name confusion with the Canon D60 and Nikon D60.

The 30D, 40D and 50D came each successive summer, and the 7D came about on time (and on spec.) to be the next in that line. It is now almost two years from the 50D announcement, far too long a lag.
 
but as you are new [first post, registered july 9] a gentle hint:
60D is in the 3D forum
 
I heard that it will be coming out at the end of August. The waiting lists will be filled until October as thousands of Early Adopters rush to buy the latest gadget. Then there will be some focusing problem or shutter defect found, and this will cause thousands of message posts about how the 50D was so much better, how this guy got a good deal by buying the old camera, followed by lots of people talking about how their 30D is still a good camera.

This arguing will continue until April, when the rumours about a new camera will start again, followed by lots of consumers getting ready to burn more money, the feeding frenzies at the stores, the mechanical defects and electronic glitches, and more rumours.

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Yes, it's an annual ritual. People used to act this way about automobiles. Then it seemed to be technology taking over, first with computers, then LCD TVs, Smart phones, and, of course, Appleware. It is much easier to spend our days lusting after things with which to communicate than to actually have real face to face conversations. The more we seek to command our universe, the farther away we become. In fact, without our spell check, we cannot spell; without our GPS, we cannot drive; without our computers, we cannot conduct business; without our grocery scanner, we cannot check out a carton of milk.

We have become willing prisoners. We are addicted to this new drug. But, ask yourself now, are you willing, for starters, to go back to film, pack your cartridge into the mailer, and send it off for processing? Can you limit yourself to 12, 24, or 36 exposures with no instant do overs?

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Vandyu said:
But, ask yourself now, are you willing, for starters, to go back to film, pack your cartridge into the mailer, and send it off for processing? Can you limit yourself to 12, 24, or 36 exposures with no instant do overs?
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I shoot film all the time, and just mailed off 5 rolls last week. Digital allows you to be sloppy and pick the best out of too many photos. Believe it or not using film makes you concentrate and actually get it right; although I will admit digital is good for most sports/action photography.

Film also provides for slower ISO speeds, and greater dynamic range capturable in certain films compared to digital - especially in the highlights.
 
RedFox88 said:
I shoot film all the time, and just mailed off 5 rolls last week. Digital allows you to be sloppy and pick the best out of too many photos. Believe it or not using film makes you concentrate and actually get it right; although I will admit digital is good for most sports/action photography.
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I shoot film as well, although for obvious reasons digital is numerically the more important format for me now. I don't send my films anywhere, though, since I still have a good local lab that even does E-6 development.

As for whether film makes you concentrate more on your shooting; I also think that for some people it really does work like that, but not for everybody. Film forces you to pre-visualize your shots more carefully, which is very important for most forms of photography. In some ways it is even more important than the immediate feedback offered by digital, especially since in many lighting conditions the picture on the camera screen is not exactly accurate and more like a preview than what the image really looks like.

However, there are people who do not get lazy and skip the pre-visualization with digital, and for them shooting film has no psychological advantages. You can also try to learn to shoot with digital like you were shooting film, so the psychological advantage of film is not really tied to the medium rather than a behavioral pattern. Still, for people who are naturally impatient shooting film can be a valuable learning experience, like all activities that encourage proper preparation and patience.
RedFox88 said:
Film also provides for slower ISO speeds, and greater dynamic range capturable in certain films compared to digital - especially in the highlights.
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Not so much dynamic range but latitude, which means that by shooting color negative your highlights will never be blown, unless your metering is really bad. Some B & W films offer very good dynamic range as well, but the difference to best DSLRs is no longer that great.
 
RedFox88 said:
I shoot film all the time, and just mailed off 5 rolls last week. Digital allows you to be sloppy and pick the best out of too many photos. Believe it or not using film makes you concentrate and actually get it right
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OK, digital makes it easier to be sloppy, but it is the photographer who makes the decision to be sloppy with digital. I like this reply:
SLove said:
However, there are people who do not get lazy and skip the pre-visualization with digital, and for them shooting film has no psychological advantages. You can also try to learn to shoot with digital like you were shooting film, so the psychological advantage of film is not really tied to the medium rather than a behavioral pattern. Still, for people who are naturally impatient shooting film can be a valuable learning experience, like all activities that encourage proper preparation and patience.
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I loved the transition to digital and don't want to deal with the color deterioration, scratches, and dust of film ever again. But shooting digital doesn't mean I make the choice to be sloppy. Experienced photographers should teach novice photographers: If you value your life (your time), you will choose to not be sloppy with digital, because when you shoot too many frames, your cards and disks fill up too fast, and culling from too many frames and attempting clever digital fixes to sloppily shot frames takes too much time and trouble and never looks quite right. Shoot fewer digital frames, more carefully.
 
graybalanced said:
RedFox88 said:
I shoot film all the time, and just mailed off 5 rolls last week. Digital allows you to be sloppy and pick the best out of too many photos. Believe it or not using film makes you concentrate and actually get it right
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OK, digital makes it easier to be sloppy, but it is the photographer who makes the decision to be sloppy with digital.
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There's still all the talk of those that take 1500-2000 photos at a wedding while film photographers get the same number of great photos while taking say 400 photos.
 
Interesting replies. Now that I think of it, I have become "sloppy" because I know digital costs me less in material and I can PP myself. But, since PP can be a time consumer, the wisdom of planning more and shooting fewer frames in digital media does make sense.
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I shoot weddings and nowadays come home with almost only usable files. Very little is wasted because of forethought.

However, I began editing for other photographers this year and am receiving 1500-2000 images with the task of bringing this down to 400 or so. Many, many files are virtually identical because of lazy fingers laying on the motor drive.
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