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02/27/2006 05:21:53 PM · #1 |
I know this forum might be biased but I have a question. I'm up visiting my uncle in Portland and he's a retired freelance photographer. He has basically talked me into getting a Canon EOS-1n film camera. It's his main camera and he loves it. He doesn't own a DSLR and he says that he never will. No he's not old and afraid of technlology. He has a digital Olympus p&s that he travels with. The reason I haven't gotten a DSLR yet is the money. I don't have much money and can't afford a $1,000 camera. And I hate to settle for a lesser camera and get one of the entry level dslrs. I think this might be the route I should go. I can pick up a used 1n for @ $300 on ebay with a lens or two. What do you guys think? Are there any film guys on here anymore? Also with film processing and getting back photos on disc can those shots be messed with in PS just as easily as a digital photo?
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02/27/2006 05:28:11 PM · #2 |
The photos you get back on disc from film processing aren't particularly high resolution.
I suppose it all depends on what you want to do with the resulting photos. Everyone here is gonna tell you to go digital. There are very few film shooters here. The cost of a DSLR is significantly more than a film camera body. With a film camera, you have film and processing costs, and additional costs if you decide to buy a decent film scanner for yourself. You can have beautiful prints made from film. You can have very nice large prints made from film also. I have seen some gorgeous cibachrome prints (20x30) made from 35mm slides. Your cost on those would be aroudn $60 each.
The cost tradeoff works itself out in time.
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02/27/2006 05:54:32 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by jmsetzler:
The photos you get back on disc from film processing aren't particularly high resolution.
I suppose it all depends on what you want to do with the resulting photos. Everyone here is gonna tell you to go digital. There are very few film shooters here. The cost of a DSLR is significantly more than a film camera body. With a film camera, you have film and processing costs, and additional costs if you decide to buy a decent film scanner for yourself. You can have beautiful prints made from film. You can have very nice large prints made from film also. I have seen some gorgeous cibachrome prints (20x30) made from 35mm slides. Your cost on those would be aroudn $60 each.
The cost tradeoff works itself out in time. |
no one else need post...lol..
john basicaly said it. cost wise it all totals up in the end. but i can tell you that film is still a great way to go. 1 thing i have noticed is that unless you are shooting with a phase 1 digital back on meidum format, digital images do not have the color saturation of film. how ever that is way raw and hue and sat. exist in photoshop.
i am still a big film fan, but it is all photographers preference, and i know pros. who say they can no longer shoot film for a client they just won't except it for what ever reason. so if you are trying to go pro. not art pro. but more business pro, the digital is the newly rising standured.
just some other stuff to consider on top of what john has said.
_bran(everything that john said i what we tell ppl. at Wolf/Ritz with your delma, and we let them descide from there)do_
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02/27/2006 05:54:34 PM · #4 |
i posted twice for some reason must be trigger happy sorry.
SC if you see this just wipe this post please.
Message edited by author 2006-02-27 17:55:36.
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02/27/2006 05:59:53 PM · #5 |
I recently bought the Canon EOS 1V with power booster, I have the 5D but taking pictures with the 1V is just so much more fun :)
if you can get the 1N cheap go for it, there is so much you can do with a film camera that is still impossible to do with digital, like playing with reciprocity law failure, the details you can get shooting in extreemly low light with a ISO 100 film.. it's stunning, every small speck becomes crystal clear, like shot with a macro lens, doing landscapes at night is awesome..
and just having a camera in the Canon 1x series is awesome, the 1N being the oldest and cheapest one..
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