20 years ago everyone shot on film, and then the pixilation revolution happened and we all went digital. And there's a reason. Digital is easy, it allows you to instantly see images and take another one if its a bit pants. Download and instantly send them to friends and therefore in a world of ever quickening social media, the role of 35mm film collapsed faster than a glass champagne tower the best men fell into. I was of that change, ever more mega-pixels, ever more gizmo's on a camera, it had to be better. Well maybe.
Film still is the best media for landscapes and fine grain photography for the professional. Nothing comes close. In September I bought a book of landscape photographs taken in the Yorkshire Dales in 2012 by a young emerging photographer who now only uses a medium format film camera. They were stunning, no grainy distant views, no strange bleaching of cloud edges no matter how much image manipulation went on post shutter release. Just stunning clear photographs that can be easily enlarged to A1 size.
Today then saw me dust off my hardly used Minolta (left) 35mm SLR. Okay it's not a medium or large format camera but this camera was bought a year before I went digital, so has a few gizmo's too as they tried to compete with the DSLR revolution. On the Somerset Levels I took the same photographs with my new Digital Canon SX50HS (right) and will compare (eventually once developed) digital and 35mm prints. Not scientific, but the question is, will I go back to film for landscapes?
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