FWIW, last year, my bro' got married and both the wedding
photogs were using Nikon F90's (don't know if that was a
coincidence or not). So film's alive and cooking.
I went crazy. Shot color with a D70, 24/2.8 (mostly) and 50/1.8,
and an SB800 on a Stroboframe bracket. Just kept it in P mode
with a -.3 (IIRC) flash comp.
Shot B&W with an FM3a and 105/2.8 AIS - also using the same
flash and bracket - mostly just head shots of the attending
relatives, particularly the aging ones, oh and the pretty ones :-)
Shot B&W with a Leica M6TTL and a Voigtlander 35/2.5 P with
a Leica SF24 on camera flash. The RF focusing was great using
this moderate wide in low lighting, spot on. The D70+24/2.8 combo
was pretty good, but I got alot more focus misses with the AF.
Whew! That was a workout :-) I have serious chronic fatigue
immune deficiency syndrome, and I sacked on the couch after
that wedding for a week or more. Took me more than a month
to get all the pics souped and scanned (for the film), editted,
spotted, doctored (digi and film) in the computer, and finally
put up on the web.
Anyway, while I didn't take formals or anything, my bro said
my pics were better. One of the first photo complements I'd
ever received.
The B&W shots seemed to really delight the family - it's just
a look everyone knows so well and enjoys, but is so absent
in the "family pic" sphere these days.
Luck had something to do with it. I just went to another fam
event and was the only photog - and well, I was disappointed
with my performance in the end. Should have shot alot more
film. But screw 'em, I was pretty damn sick :-)
Go film!!!! It's all good.
Scott
Stewart Skelt wrote:
>On that subject...
>
>I recently went to a friend's wedding and took along my EOS3 and 550EX
>and some Provia. The two professionals were using DSLRs and what looked
>like a 645 with a digital back - I didn't get close enough to check.
>
>Anyway, after the wedding my friend's requests to see my shots were
>getting increasingly desperate, it turned out to be because she was
>unhappy with the professionals' efforts. When I finally got around to
>processing and scanning them (9000ED and Vuescan) she pronounced the
>colours much better than the the digital ones.
>
>This made me consider doing professional wedding work myself, for about
>0.001 of a second.
>
>Stewart
>
>Hanna, Mark (x9085) wrote:
>
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>>Hi all on the list,
>>
>>Here in Sydney Australia, I have my film processed at 'Vision Graphics'
>>St Leonards, (have shot a few weddings in the past couple of years) They
>>are known as one of the best pro labs in Australia. I asked the lab what
>>percentage of film/digital comes in for weddings, they say its running
>>at about 70%film/30%digital at the moment. They say the film shooters
>>find it's easier and less time consuming to get the right colours/look
>>happening with their FUJU NPC/NPH and Kodak Portras than it is with
>>digital. They mentioned quite a few had tried shooting weddings in
>>digital and had returned to film for this reason. I hope film remains
>>for some time fo the above reasons and I don't really want to retire my
>>EOS 3 bodies and Mamiya 645 kit just yet.
>>
>>Mark.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
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>>Sent: Saturday, 25 February 2006 7:03 AM
>>To: Hanna, Mark (x9085)
>>Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Nikon scanner availability
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>>I just went to a small rally in support of Denmark. There were
>>TV film crews and several PJ's there.
>>
>>I was really surprised (and sort of pleased) that many of the PJ's
>>were using high end Canon film bodies. I'm told that it's all gone
>>digital, but that's not what I saw today.
>>
>>There were a ton of Nikon D70s and a few D200s and so on,
>>most with kit lenses - but these were being used by the protesters
>>and amateur photogs. A few low end Canon lower end DSLRs
>>too.
>>
>>I'm an amateur and did my shooting with a D70 + 12-24/4 and an
>>FM3a + 105/2.5 AIS loaded with XP2 (I haven't been souping my
>>beloved FP4 and HP5+ for a while due to illness and fatigue).
>>
>>Scott
>>
>>lists wrote:
>>
>>
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>>>[snip]
>>>I'm looking forward to the day when digital cameras are good enough
>>>
>>>
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>>that
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>>
>>
>>>I can stop shooting film.
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