The digital film debate will be go on for years to come, I read that film is still being used on photography courses around the world. In the past I've used 6x7, 4x5 and 10x8 and know that the quality is exceptional; if I was working as a professional photographer I would use film and digital. I still think film has got the edge in high contrast situations. If digital was that good all Hollywood films would be shot on it, at the moment they are not: maybe due to its low gamut in comparison with film. I think film will be around for a long time, same as records! However, the standard of photography seems to have gone down with the advent of digital.

I used to work as a professional photographer for a number of years, so do not know what all the fuss is about regarding digital and film; it’s easy to think that the medium is more important than the image, but I do not think people think about the type of medium used when they are looking at a great image. Photography just means that an image has been taken with a camera, so photography can encompass the use of any type of camera. In some hands the use of a 10x8 could seem extravagant and a total waste of film, as this format suites a particular way of working; there are very view photographers who can use this format to its full advantage. It is not really suitable for action type photography, and to use 10x8 for such a purpose is in some ways extravagant. The only photographers who really take advantage of this medium are the German art photographers; however, the debate about the type of medium used in really redundant for most people. I think we have now reached the stage when people cannot tell a digital image from a film image, and does anyone really care? The last time a checked with the magazines that I used to work for they still wanted my submissions shot on film, so would be interested to know if this is still the case with editorial shoots…..

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I`d work as a assistant of photographer in your studio.
How could I do it?
My portfolio is here http://www.flickr.com/photos/helenarostunova/sets/72157594434594086/

I can all.
Best Lena

The title and content of the original posting seems to be based on the exhibition called ‘The Death of Photography’ by Robert Burley, Michel Campeau, Alison Rossiter.

January 5 – February 2, 2008

Opening reception on Saturday, January 12, from 2 – 5 PM. Artists will be in attendance.

"from today, painting is dead! Paul Delaroche, June, 1839.

This is the link to the exhibition:

http://www.bulgergallery.com/dynamic/fr_exhibit_press_release.asp?ExhibitID=162

Im not sure if a petition like this will work, but it may get fuji to consider it more seriously if there are enough people take part.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/LicensePolaroidTechnology/index.html

I've been off of this for a bit, so let me go back and touch up on some earlier discussion here.

First off, not all digitally shot pictures look the same. I work with the Canon 1Ds MarkII and Phase P25+ on Hasselblad, and the Hasselblad H3 systems. They both give very distinct images [not just because of format]. I agree that digital images lack a certain amount of atmosphere with regards to film, but that's part of the trade off.

Nowadays, you no longer have to send film off to get processed and drum scanned and spend your time in Photoshop removing dust and fixing skin, colours and so on. You skip out on the processing and scanning with digital, but instead have to make the image look more film like. That's what I do at least. So technically, digital hasn't made things easier in some regards, just traded in certain aspects of film photography for new digital tasks.

As for not being able to replicate a 10x8 look on digital, that's not entirely true. You can attach backs onto 4x5 cameras with some loss of image area, which isn't a huge deal. You can also acquire lenses with really large apertures, so you can have the narrow depth of field of an 10x8. The digital is going to be nearly as sharp and detailed anyway so... it won't be 10x8 but it will look it.