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After shooting mostly digital for years (and getting burnt
out on my photography) I am shifting gears and going back
to shooting 120 film. While obviously shooting digital is
easier and cheaper, I'm just not getting the results from
my landscape photography like I used to. What made me
realize I want to start shooting film again was when I got
some proofs back from an old Ikoflex TLR I was given and
had repaired. They had a smooth tonal, 3D look I haven't
seen in years!

It wasn't even a top shelf model (had the 3 element novar
lens) but when I saw the 5X5 proofs, I remember why I
loved shooting medium format film. I'm sure not gonna
argue about why these images convinced me to clean up my
darkroom and go back to analog photography (including not
scan and print but optically printing again too) but there
is something magical about the look of an image from this
medium to me. To be fair, I was never happy with the
results from 35mm film either..

I also found it interesting the local camera store told
me film sales has picked up and some of the working pro's
have gone back to film for some of their projects. I'm
sure this is the point where some of the die hard digital
guys will explain that "You just don't what your doing as
digital is far superiour".. To those people, I could care
less if you or some web site has all sorts of data to
"prove it".. I know what I see and am going back to
shooting 120 film :-)

Stephanie

Welcome to the club Stephanie. While I certainly
recognize that digital, or perhaps electronic is a better
name, photography has a number of advantages, especially for
commercial photographers, I still like working with film and
printing on paper. There is still a fair variety of
materials available. Ilford, in particular, seems to have
undertaken to make sure there is an adequate supply of
traditional photographic materials and chemistry of good
quality. I still like Kodak products a lot but they seem
bound and determined to destroy what little market they have
left.
This group, the medium format group, and the darkroom
group seem to still have a bit of life in them.
The Ikoflex was a very respectible camera, well made and
with good lenses. I shoot mostly Rolleiflex's in this format
but my favorite is a Rollicord IV.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA