Monday, April 11, 2011

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Larry Purviance said...

Dave,

Was this photo taken with your Iphonee? I would like you to write something from your background as a professional photographer that used to use Leicas, and discuss what it is like using a cellphone camera now....do you use it exclusively? Do you ever use film anymore? Do you think there is any reason to use film?

April 12, 2011 at 5:57 PM
dave said...

That was an iPhone picture.
I own a medium quality digital camera. There is no way in the world I will ever be able to afford digital to match my Leicas or Nikons.
The quality from an iPhone continues to amaze me however.
There are photogs who use film exclusively still. They shoot film, have it developed and digitized and go from there.
Film sees different than digital. I think if I was real serious I'd probably go the film/digitizing route.
The experience of shooting cheap digital is like getting out of your Jaguar (the one that runs really good) and getting into a Yugo or a Rambler!
Ugh!

April 15, 2011 at 5:16 PM
Larry Purviance said...

Thanks for talking to me last night. I still think film has some commanding advantages for certain purposes. For instance, we took some Fuji Velvia asa 50 film with us to Canada, and the results easily surpass any digital camera I have used. Some of the Velvia shots are so incredible, they look like watercolor paintings. And the medium format stuff is clearly superior when blown up and viewed on a 47 inch HDTV. No detectable grain even at that size!\Film is far more artistically-oriented than it ever has been, in my opinion, particularly with the Canon Fluorite lenses and the Contax Carl Zeiss lenses.

On the other hand, for just everyday snapshots, digital is clearly superior, especially costwise. And the camera phones this year are going to make a quantum leap forward with the new backlit CMOS sensors coupled with the new dual core processors.

In other words, I like both and have been shooting more this year than ever. Particularly with this little Flip videocam that I can tape to the aerobars of my bicycle. Whereever you point your handlebars, that is what it captures perfectly in focus and weighs a lot less than my Droid X.

April 16, 2011 at 8:19 AM

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