I don't usually wade into these discussions as they go round and round and round. But feel I can make a small and hopefully helpful contribution. I use a Nikon D810 and yes it can be complicated if you let it. It does just about everything you can think of except go off on its own to take photos. But I don't let it be complicated. I use the autofocus because the old peepers ain't what they were. Aside from that I use the camera as a manual camera. I set the ISO, and choose the aperture and shutter speed I require.
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Film Photography Makes A Stunning Comeback
- Thread starter ian barber
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My first digital camera was a Fuji S2Pro. I bought a brace of them when they came out at the photography exhibition in Birmingham many years ago. It claimed a 12 million pixel, though it was actually 6 million. I used these professionally for about four years. They were utterly brilliant. Easy to use and understand and, most importantly, very reliable. I later bought Canon, Nikon and Olympus and getting through the menus to find even the most basic functions was a bleedin nightmare.
You are right getting started from the box is a pain, I had kind of forgotten that part, it is a while since I bought a new camera.My favourite subject is landscape and I long for someone to produce a basic digital camera like the film ones used be, but with 50 or a 100 mega pixels. For landscape I just don't need all the other gismos. But I don't think it will happen not when all the whistles and bells sell cameras and in any case, as my local computer expert keeps telling me when I start wittering on about this, It's the chips that cost the money. The bigger the chip the bigger the cost.
Those who have read my posts will know that I use both film and digital. Digital for me is almost an essential tool but ONLY for convenience and speed. It is also used when I know I will be taking a high number of images when touring Europe on my motorcycle and want the pictures so rather than film I use digital and process via PS. I have just returned from a short visit to Shetland and last night finished the download and sorting them into order. If that had been film I would still be printing this time next year.
I am away again in a few days time on 2 wheels to Western Scotland but it will be film this time because I have been there before and there won't be such a mad dash to record what there is and can take my time. C41 and B&W this time and given good weather it will be far less of a mad scramble as it was in Shetland.
I will recommend Shetland for a visit. It isn't as small as you think so about 6 days is the minimum. Hotel costs, food, and fuel is about on par with GB, so not over the top. The roads are a credit and on balance better than average on GB. However the thorn in the side is the ferry line from Aberdeen. -They are in one word appalling, passenger comfort comes 2nd or 3rd in their line of priorities. Unfortunately they have a monopoly and the only other way you can get there is by flying.
I am away again in a few days time on 2 wheels to Western Scotland but it will be film this time because I have been there before and there won't be such a mad dash to record what there is and can take my time. C41 and B&W this time and given good weather it will be far less of a mad scramble as it was in Shetland.
I will recommend Shetland for a visit. It isn't as small as you think so about 6 days is the minimum. Hotel costs, food, and fuel is about on par with GB, so not over the top. The roads are a credit and on balance better than average on GB. However the thorn in the side is the ferry line from Aberdeen. -They are in one word appalling, passenger comfort comes 2nd or 3rd in their line of priorities. Unfortunately they have a monopoly and the only other way you can get there is by flying.
You are right I think. That is where digital really scores. I do almost all of my photography with digital now but I still have this nagging suspicion that the best shots, in monochrome anyway, would have been better using film in LF or MF. But perhaps I am just a bit biased
