Jorgen Udvang
Subscriber Member
Ray, I couldn't agree more. I'm not coming from MF digital and I'm not doing landscapes, but for most of my portrait work, film is where I'm going. When I need digital, the Panasonic GH3/4 do everything that I'll need for now and possibly forever. When I need passion, there are so many nice, affordable cameras and so many nice kinds of film, not to speak about formats, available to cater for that. Most of the photos that have made a deep impression on me were made with film. Actually, I can't remember a single digital photo of which I can say that the artistic value touched the deep of my soul. Not because they don't exist, because they probably do, but it does seem like the process around film photography helps photographers give more, express more.
The infamous Erwin Puts posted a consumerism rant on his FB page a couple of weeks ago. Although I don't always follow his reasoning, I do agree with many of his statements. Digital photography is consumerism by nature. The never ending upgrades and new cameras possibly aren't much worse than the consumption of film and chemicals for traditional photography, at least not from an environmental point of view, but the cultural consumerism is. The ability to take millions of photographs for free doesn't help express whatever message the photographer is trying to convey. I would rather take one photo that tells a story than a million that don't, even if that one photo is technically inferior with more grain and less "realistic" colour.
The infamous Erwin Puts posted a consumerism rant on his FB page a couple of weeks ago. Although I don't always follow his reasoning, I do agree with many of his statements. Digital photography is consumerism by nature. The never ending upgrades and new cameras possibly aren't much worse than the consumption of film and chemicals for traditional photography, at least not from an environmental point of view, but the cultural consumerism is. The ability to take millions of photographs for free doesn't help express whatever message the photographer is trying to convey. I would rather take one photo that tells a story than a million that don't, even if that one photo is technically inferior with more grain and less "realistic" colour.