Question: How many of you...

... Have never photographed with film?

21 years film 8 years digital!

As a nature photographer, I have never used film. Prior to my interest in photographing nature, I used film for vacation photos, etc..

I grew up using an old Kodak Instamatic type camera, but only for personal use. I didn't get seriously interested in photography until the digital age.

The huge majority of my photos are on film!

Film from about 1968 to 2003. Did a lot of B&W darkroom work then did a lot of CibaChrome darkroom work with Ektachrome slides. Bought a 10D in 2003 and never looked back. Sold the darkroom equipment in 2005.

Of course I am now looking for a good quality slide scanner to digitize the best of the old slides.

Film from 1958-9 until 2004 - Now only digital... Digital makes life a lot easier..

I first developed film in the Cub Scouts when I was about 11. I'm now 61.

- Dan

I've got boxes of slides in my closet. Still trying to scan them all - a never ending process!

I started with film in high school, am now in my mid 50's, and am still using 4x5 film for some images, although it seems I am pulling out the view camera less and less

I shot some film on my mom's Rebel to have reference work for my paintings in high school. Bought a 20d in 2005 in college and never looked back. Haven't painted since then either.

I have always used film since starting in 1971. Today, I use primarily 4x5, with a smattering of 6x4.5cm and digital.

-P

I'm 33 and I've never photographed with film (unless you count a little Kodak 110 P&S when I was like 10).

I still buy an occasional throw-away one use like Fuji or Kodak for snap shots at parties and to keep in the boat or tackle box to record fish caught. Process @ Walgreens and an extra $ or two gets a disc also. Still looking for a P/S to carry around instead. D200's are too heavy and expensive for above mentioned uses imo. Still have my Canon AE-1's and glass, just lazy now I guess.

Let's see... my parents has a Polaroid Instamatic (B&W) that you needed to rub the lacquer on the image so it wouldn't fade... that was fun to use. I then got a Kodak Pocket 110 in the early 70s, and that lasted until my first Minolta SLR in 1985. Shot buckets of print and slide film until December 2005 when I got my first digital camera, Minolta 7D DSLR body which fit all my lenses (never owned a P&S digital). In November 2007 I ditched it all and came to the Canon camp (5D then 5D2), best move I ever made. NPN had a BIG part in me choosing to get real gear.

Bought my first DSLR about 18 months ago, never shot film in my life.

Kodak 110 then a Ricoh all manual SLR, then Nikon N90s film. Went digital in 2006- how very revolutionary!

I am going to guess this will be somewhat related to our ages. I shot film for almost 35 years off and on, never could afford really good gear and would stop shooting for long periods then pick it back up. Got a good point and shoot digital about 5 years ago then upgraded to a real DSLR with all the fixings about 3 years ago.

Wow this topic took off

Of course I started out about 20 years ago seriously with negative film, moved to slide film then 4x5. I still primarily use film for the serious work, but digital is now coming on board as well. I still don't feel like digital is 'real' photography - now that might ruffle some feathers.

I started out in 1999 shooting print film, then moved to Velvia in 2000 and shot that through 2005 when I finally made the switch to digital. I love digital but I still have fantasies about photographing with a 4x5 at times.

I used film in the 70s up till digital Slrs came about. I do prefer digital for the expense reasons as far as develping film images and the amazing control of the final image digital offers, However i think digital has taken a way the impact of captured images leaving the viewer to doubt if it is real or "created"

I started using box cameras.120 and 126 long before digital cameras were a dream. I tried a couple of early digital cameras only to be disappointed. I switched to digital when the 5D hit the scene. Anyone need any Provia film always kept in the fridge?

By the way Cheryl, I went to a photography exhibit at the Getty Museum several years ago. One exhibit was of panoramas made for the British railroad to promote vacations along the British coast. As I recall, he used up to 5 different pictures to make the prints. These could not be distinguished from an original. The interesting point is that this man worked in the 1880s and 1890s to produce these pictures. He was doing Photoshop 100 years before Photoshop hit the streets, and over 50 years before the first commercial computers.

I did shoot with film for the first few years of experimentation with photography but all of my best work which I currently show is all digital. I got my first DSLR the Canon 30D in 2006 and I think without film limiting how many photos I could take I was able to experiment more and learn at a much quicker rate.