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Digital vs. Film, but with a twist... I have been studying this issue very closely. I understand that even at the top level of digital technology, it has it's problems. I, personally, have found that although technology is interesting, it creates other problems. As an example, I used to keep all my information, personal contacts, schedule, phone numbers, etc. on my computer. Now, I have a phone book that I write in, a paper schedule calendar, and a manual recipt book that makes a carbon copy. I know, call me old fashion. I work in the IT industry right now, but I just find that many things are easier the old fashioned way. It is so much quicker for me to look up a phone number in my phone book, while others are fumbling around on their keyboards waiting for applicatoins to load, etc. Computers can ruin your life if you have everything on them and they crash, and you forgot to back up that week. At any rate, I am going into the wedding photography business. As I was researching, I couldn't find much wrong with the digital option. It appeared perfect. Until I spoke to a pro. She steered me away from it when she began to talk about work-flow. That one word, or two words, I guess, threw my entire business plan out the window. So, for professional photographers that make their living shooting, digital seems far more labor intensive on the back-end. You have to upload all the images and work through them all. Taking the film to the lab is so much easier. If I take 800 pictures at a wedding, there's no way I am going to be able to manage that. It's not the one wedding, but it's all of them - one after another. It just seems that working smarter is letting the lab deal with doing the work. This way I can concentrate more on the things I like to do. Many of the arguements I see for digital are for personal uses, or for semi-pros that are doing small volume. Maybe it's okay for that. Also, most people seem to be talking about 35mm SLR comparison. But, no one ever talks about medium or large format digital backs. I know their are a lot of downsides to those, maybe that's why no one talks about it. Mostly, I am interested in hearing how some of you who work with volume, maybe stock, or weddings, manage the work flow in the digital format, and what you do when you are asked to create a very large print.
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