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Would it be a bad idea to buy a digital back on e.g. ebay? Then you could skip the issues with film.
by flyinRyan 14y ago
Would it be a bad idea to buy a digital back on e.g. ebay? Then you could skip the issues with film.
- potatolicious 14y agoDepends on how much money you have to burn ;) There's also a crop factor issue when using digital backs, since they aren't the same size as the original film. If you have a lot of money to burn, the latest gen digital backs are close enough to 6x4.5 that the crop factor is fairly insignificant. Older digital backs aren't even close, so you're shooting a substantial crop from the original intended image. There is no such thing as a 6x6 sensor, unfortunately.
- flyinRyan 14y agoAh, I didn't realize this about the cropping. I guess I'll have to wait for these new less-cropped backs to be three or four generations old then. :) I'm still hoping someone makes a practical large format back at some point.
- alanctgardner2 14y agoI don't know if it's terribly hipster, but I'm interested in the experience of shooting on film, as much as the hardware. I don't get to do it often, but I find I shoot much more methodically when I have to count my shots, and I don't end up with a million bracketed shots of the same boring thing that I thought might be cool. Obviously there are spray-and-pray film photographers, but when I want that experience, I grab my DLSR.