Digital or Tradtional?what do you use? Poll

[magoo]

I am still resisting working w/digital. Not that I'm against it or think that film is better, I have come to the realization that digital is as good if not better than film. To me digital loses the romance of photography. Taking your time, composing your shot and making sure everything is set, no instant gratification, you have to wait for the prints to come out. When working w/ b&w the art is not just getting the shot but in making the print. Using light not photoshop fix the imperfections. Now with digital how do you know what is the true print and what was manipulated in photoshop, what took patience, perseverence and time to create and what someone wanted to portray in the picture w/the help of a computer. To me it would be like Michelangelo using machines to cut and sculpt the statue and say it was the artists vision he made on the computer instead of the pains taking work of doing it the old fashioned way.

Magoo

[Janie]

I use both - and now that I have the digital rebel and the 35mm rebel, my lenses are interchangeable and I love the amount of control I have over the rebel. I'm picking up some extra lighting for portait shots, so we'll see which of the two i'll prefer for that. I'll probably shoot both for that. I have some really cool software that allows me to create slideshows to music that I can send to my grandfather in Hawaii - he pops it into his dvd player and watches the family show now! he absolely loves that - and I can caption names on each photo so he remembers who everyone is! lol To do that from my film camera i'd have to scan each photo (I hate the CDs they give you with them) which would take me forever for the amount of shooting I do.

One huge plus for me is that I sell my photography in restaurants and i have a high quality OKI color laser printer and print on very nice quality photo paper - I held my 8x10 film photo next to the laser and they even smelled alike! lol The look and dimension was there - absolutely beautiful. Ink Jet doesn't give you the CMYK look that laser gives you, so that was a HUGE plus!