John Sevigny

It's true. The article is not even about AI, really. There's no actual machine learning in the proposal. I think AI, as a marketing concept, will have died before the end of 2023z

Museum quality color prints are giclee or some form of inkjet. This is true at most of the top end labs.

Agreed. My favorite camera for color rendition is the x100t. Even those are going for like $900 used. And no, the xe2 is not the same.

I may be too dense to use DxO correctly, but far too often the program picks some random lens like (Nikon 28-70 2.8) when a lens like Sony's 28mm 2.8 or 35mm "Zeiss" 2.8 isn't available.

In general, even the newest iPhones suffer from weird distortion, particularly on what's considered normal mode, which is pretty wide. Iphones have very good cameras even if the files are anemic. A...

I know this thread is five years old but I have the same problem with my xpro 3. The door alone keeps the battery in, so I can live with it. But it's a pretty crummy thing on a camera this expensive.

Fuji AF is really bad, particularly compared to Sony. But people don't generally buy fuji cameras for blazing speed.

fuji is ramping down production

Exactly this. Films such as cinestill are likely sitting around frozen somewhere. Highly unlikely anyone's producing it. And I don't care how many rolls they make of a given emulsion - the price is...

90% of used cameras are damaged. They're Wayyyyyy too expensive and most film labs today are rubbish. I loved shooting film. Now that i's dying, I love shooting digital.

15 years ago nobody was shooting film. It was all about dslrs and megapixels. Once digital cameras became affordable, film got a death sentence. Nobody used it then and nobody would use it now. And...

Custom labs can make color prints that will last hundreds of years.

The chemicals needed to shoot Kodachrome are among the worst for thr environment. And Kodachrome was going for over $20 US when I last shot a roll more than two decades ago. Provia was a huge...

Impossible. Kodachrome is never coming back and certainly not as an e6 film. It was fine for its time. I shot a ton of it. But it's badly overrated.

IMO, Fuji cameras have gone from creating a very unique look at the expense of stone age autofocus to creating a far more generic look with no real increase in AF. I currently shhot an xe2, xe3, ...

Nah. It's just another $5k year expense. I loved shooting film when there were good labs. Now I'm happy with digital. It's about how much cash you have and personal preferences.

Ditto.

#digitallives

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I got my M6 ttl new for $2k. Floor model.

most film shooters want to use retro cameras to match the retro film look they get when they take pictures of retro gas stations at night. 90% of film shooters have no interest in a "new" camera...