Once I started shooting film again with my 40+ year old Nikkormat camera I realized something — for all of the years I actively used the camera, I was only shooting black and white. I was shooting black and white because I was shooting for newspapers.
At some point, somewhere I read that one of the advantages of film is that film is inherently sharper (all things considered) than digital.
So a couple of weeks ago I purchased a roll of Kodak Ektar 100 film, 36 exposures, and whenever possible, made pictures with the Nikkormat.
Here are the results — 15 publishable photos.
I do think they are sharper than what I’ve been able to get with digital, though at the resolutions possible through a web browser, that may not be obvious.
I certainly love the tone and warmth of the colors.
From here, with winter coming on especially, I’ll probably be shooting black and white for a while.
My wish is that I could afford to buy another or two (or find at a really good price) Nikon film cameras, so I can load both black and white and color film (one in each camera) and use the appropriate option for the appropriate shot. Some day.
It’s the depth. Film seems to convey a sense of depth that doesn’t exist yet in digital photos.
How did you digitize the photos? I am going to make a run at shooting some C-41 in both 35mm and in 120. I don’t want to scan my photos and hope I can find a decent lab (at a good price) to deliver scans from the rolls.
CVS Pharmacy provides me with a disk and the negatives (I don’t order prints)
Thanks Howard. I was at Target today and found out they will process my a roll of C-41 in-house for $1 and burn the images to a CD for $2.95. I am not expecting much by I’ll shoot a test roll and see how they do…