It tears my heart but I'm about about to abandon film. It kills me because I've built an absolutely beautiful medium format camera rig over the last year at a cost of about $3000. Its the system I've dreamed of owning for ten years. Now that I have it I find that I'm not happy with it. Its slow, hard to focus, heavy, expensive ($1.20/frame). It really requires a herculean effort to get just few good shots out it. Thoes few good ones are usually spectacular.
Every day I see amazing shots by folks who have owned a digtal SLR less than a year. They shoot, adjust, re-shoot tweak and publish. I'm tired of waiting for film to come back only to be disappointed by what is on the film. I want to be able to fix my fuckups while i'm still shooting.
I'm waiting for Nikons next pro-body announcement and if its not full frame* I'm dumping the last remnants of my Nikon system and buying a canon 5D.
Anyone know where I can get a good price for my Soul while I'm at it?
- J F S
*Full Frame = Image sensor the same size as a frame of 35mm film (24mm x 36mm) Most digital SLR's use a "cropped" sensor making it more difficult to control depth of field.
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