Does anyone else still JUST use film? Am wondering if I am seriously persuing a dead medium. Lots of people seem to use film on occasion, but most of the time its all digital...

Part of me loves film for the suspense/suprise element and the fact I can afford a film camera far beyond my scope (e.g. I have a Canon 50 film at home I bought off Ebay with LOADS of accessories for £140 quid a year or so ago. Equivalent digital model= £1,399). Part of me likes keeping it alive. Not sure I'd stick with it though if I were given a really nice digital SLR though...

Thoughts anyone else?

I adore film for lots of reasons. I have a pretty good digital SLR (Nikon D80) but I still like shooting film a lot. According to my flickr I pretty much shoot equal amounts of digital and film, it's half and half. I'll probably upgrade my digital camera eventually but at the moment I'd rather spend money on lots of great lenses that I can use for both formats.

I think a great photograph is a great photograph no matter how it was created. I suppose you just have to figure out what you're trying to create and pick the best materials to do that with. Some people will never take a photographer seriously if they lack megapixels and that's a real shame. I guess most proffesional photographers use digital, but they don't all buy their own equippment.

I love the element of surprise and there's just some strange undefineable quality to film that I like. Digital can be so perfect it's unreal and I find film's flaws and imperfections more intresting. I see a lot of digital images that are processed to shit and just have no soul left whatsoever, I feel nothing when I look at them, it's like the difference between a blow up doll and a real live girl.

It's intresting to think about how much photography has changed since digital came along, only in the last 20 years or so. I think there's a lot of photographers who started working before that who still only use film. And actually make prints! In a darkroom!
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p.s. yes I have at least five flickr contacts who only shoot film, they're good too.

I use both, but I much prefer film cameras. I have a digital one and my mobile phone for snapshots and spur of the moment stuff, but anything artsy or pre-planned, I use film. Nothing against digital photographers, good stuff is good stuff, just personal preference, I love messing with the different lenses and the focus etc. It's heavy and inconvenient lugging it all around, but it's worth it for the results.

I develop my own negatives but not prints, and I love it- you get home from taking pics and then you go through this protracted chemistry process in the bathroom sloshing chemicals about and using your foot to time it with your mobile phone and then- MAGIC- you have all your negatives at the end. Somehow the idea of coming home and uploading pics isn't so fun.

I do use my mobile phone to take pictures on a night out, but that is because digital or film, an SLR isn't exactly the tool to take clubbing. Plus they are always just pics of my friends drunk doing silly things- don't really need expensive lenses and variable focus for that!

I'd love to develop my own stuff, but my bathroom is tiny and I'd be scared of destroying it with chemicals and invoking an unhappy landlord...