I guess what I was trying to get at...is that for 'most' people, film has a certain finality to it. Especially if you don't have a darkroom...or don't manipulate much in one. It gives me a different feel when I hear the shutter "clack" in a film camera. You kind of know that if you take a shot and you do "x", that if your lucky and have done some stuff right that "y" might come out. So many people use digital like a machine gun...I don't know if it's right or wrong, but it's different. I like the look of film too.
Jypsee thanks for the link...when I saw the photographers work...I remembered him. Some awesome creative stuff. And I agree that film can be and is manipulated too sometimes very creatively...but for myself with no access to a darkroom now...guess I should have said "for myself". I guess what I was trying to say is that I like thinking about what I shoot sometimes (with film especially) beforehand, rather than the more intuitive shooting I do with digital. I think the two can, as you say, compliment each other...and maybe either can benefit from the other. Also you are correct that honesty isn't imposed by the medium...nor is creativity limited by it. It's just that some of those who I've seen who've done dishonest stuff, with no disclosure of it (as opposed to creative), just to sell...would have had no idea how to have done it with film...but probably if shooting film would have done something else in that regard... or learned how to...or have taken a career up as an investment banker
prinochat said:
I love to hear a Nikon Shutter fire... That and a motor drive
The shutter YEP! the motor drive?....I always tried never to hold my finger down too long...I'd keep seeing dollar signs
but they do sound neat. I'd actually run mine with no film sometimes just to hear it go...and you thought yourself weird?