it seems that while pros often use film, serious amateurs all seem to use digital now
That's interesting, about four years ago I was speaking with a couple of professional press photographers. They were saying that they'd been using digital for well over ten years while amateurs were only just starting to catch up with using digitals.
Four years ago would be about right. My Dad went over to the digital side a bit before that.
I also think you're right about press photographers - the ease of getting the photo in to the office from location means that they were probably early adopters of digital. But I think that there are still portrait photographers, fashion photographers, landscape photographers etc still using film. Many of these types probably never went over to SLR and are still using big expensive medium format Hasselblads and the like anyway.
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Date: 2008-01-20 05:52 pm (UTC)That's interesting, about four years ago I was speaking with a couple of professional press photographers. They were saying that they'd been using digital for well over ten years while amateurs were only just starting to catch up with using digitals.
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Date: 2008-01-21 12:50 pm (UTC)I also think you're right about press photographers - the ease of getting the photo in to the office from location means that they were probably early adopters of digital. But I think that there are still portrait photographers, fashion photographers, landscape photographers etc still using film. Many of these types probably never went over to SLR and are still using big expensive medium format Hasselblads and the like anyway.
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Date: 2008-01-21 05:25 pm (UTC)