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>>47652 Fucking great, I love doorway/window/any sort of portal shots, and this one is very nice. Get a goddam flickr, you bastard!
I'll say this about film vs. digital: I like the results I get from film better than digital, on average. The color's better if it's color film, and the contrast and tonality and grain and overall exposure is better if it's black and white. You'll never stop me from shooting TriX, not until they stop making it.
However, I do think that digital is the superior platform. The tools are so close right now. A few years ago, film was still top dog. Now, it's pretty ambiguous. For 35mm, you pretty much have to shoot digital. There's no good reason not to. For 120 and 220 film, the choice is obviously film unless you have 20-30k to blow on a digital back from PhaseOne or Mamiya or Hasselblad. For large format, there is simply no competition whatsoever, but sadly it's fucking expensive even if you shoot film, heh.
One more note: I couldn't get into film until I got my digital SLR because it was so difficult to self-instruct with film. Even when I got my dSLR, it took me nearly 300 frames just to figure out the basics of exposure, probably 1000 until I started understanding DOF, motion, and intermediate concepts, and it wasn't until around frame 2000 or so that I got shots that I was really damn proud of. When you think of how many rolls of film that would've been, it's outrageous. Digital was my entry into photography, and will be my future, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying the strengths and beauty of film. It'd be stupid to simply ignore one for the other. Shoot both, and be happy.
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