| posted by Cheryl | June 19, 2010, 1:15 pm |
| Hello--I have a Canon Rebel Ti, which of course uses 35mm film. I dearly love this camera, it takes great pics. The emphasis now is so much on digital cameras. Do you ever have instruction on using this old-school technology? | |
| posted by Dan Pettus | June 21, 2010, 7:52 am |
| Dear Cheryl: Unfortunately film has taken the same route as analog TV sets. It's now considered a specialty or niche industry. Not that it is better or worse than digital. It is simply a disruptive change and we don't get much demand for workshops with film. That said our studio still owns several film camera bodes from the old Canon AE-1 to Mamiya 645 medium format. We just do not have much use for them now. Fun to play with, but never used for customer work anymore. Our workshops include topics that are the same for both film and digital. Subjects like lighting, composition, depth-of-field, etc. are all the same. However topics like ISO, white balance, Photoshop workflow, digital filtering are quite different. Sorry to say that film will go the way of vinyl records. Pretty cool to play a LP vinyl on my Dual Turntable and vacuum tube based Macintosh amplifier, but, I know this is not mainstream with iTunes and music-on-demand being the state-of-the art. Digital is here to stay and almost all manufactures, including Canon, will stop supporting film in any manner very soon. Regards, Dan Pettus |
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