Manual black and white photography?

someone please tell me they do it as well
im SO sick of frickin digital cameras
everyone can do it nowadays
who else appreciates real photography

i did A level photgraphy for 3 years!! and yes manuel photographs are great fun and well worth the effort put in, its tricky but practice makes perfect!! dont get me wrong im a big fan of diggy cameras wont leave home with out it!! but i do miss the darkroom so go find one and they should have black and white solution for developement. also sepias as good!!

good luck!!

Just because people can shoot digital doesn't mean they can shoot a decent or worthy picture.

"Real" Photography isn't about what camera you are using or what format but it is the interaction between the subject and the photographer. Ones craft is still dependent on the interplay of light ,composition and the placement and interaction with the subject. This can take many , many years to master even with the even with the advent of digital.

Although I still shoot some 4x5 Black and white I will shoot most of my Black and white in the digital format. Other than not having large grain, which theoretically could be added back in, it is now impossible to tell the difference.

i have a darkroom for my black/white devloping, but i do also use digital. I once spent two hours on a black and white image that had a flare in it and i couldn't get rid of it how i wanted it so i scanned the neg into my computer and removed it with photoshop in above ten minutes. So digital does have its advantages sorry to say. But I still, do like playing with black/white i won't get rid of it

I use a lot of black and white film ... my favorite is IR film.

I take a photo class once a year at my local community college so I can have access to their darkroom where I make archival prints on fiber-based paper.

Yes I do, Real Cameras are so versatile while this new breed are for snappers, I want to start again with a real camera, i started with a Russian Zenith EM slow and heavy but made you think and take time over a shot, Like I said Real Cameras.

Yes I'm fed up with digital cameras too - although I only have a crappy one for putting stuff onto ebay. I still use a film camera but I am finding it harder and harder to find a company who can process it without royally c**king it up.

I've had some awful results from high street processors recently and have made them recalibrate their machines until my prints and scans come out OK. The photo paper they use these days is also really cheap and thin. I don't want to go digital , I can't afford it for a start (not to get the equivalent of my film camera in digital), but the lack of decent processors are forcing me that way.

I love shooting with B&W film, and do so all the time. While digital is just as "real", unless you have a professional digital camera, you can't get the same quality B&W images as you can using good film.

When you get down to it, how good photography is, depends on the photographer more than the camera, and is pretty subjective based on the person viewing it.

Digital cameras have made it easier for most people to take less bad photos in terms of clarity, and such, but haven't made taken truly great photos any easier. The problem is that we are flooded with banal, uninspired photos that make finding the good stuff harder.

I looooove my manual black and white but then again my digital is amazing too. We just got a new puppy, shes hard to catch so its ncie to know what the pictures will look like, most are just ears, but I have been getting good face shots of her. But the film I got a few rolls of her also. I love the fact I can see teh pics right away but I also love in some instances the surprise of developing them. That and it is amazing working in the darkroom. The darkroom is the most amazing thing about it. Photoshop could never change that.
I basically use my digital to set up shots and try to see which readings work better and what not. That way I know stuff will turn out. I did a wedding in film once which turned out wonderful but i was just so worried about how it would turn out, That would have been a great time for digital.


The Camera does not make the photo its all in the Lens and in the Photographer.

camera club online and learn how to do the basics....

http://uk.msnusers.com/DIGITALCAMERACLUB...

there is no photograph in the world like manual, black and white, at a speed fast enough so you don't need a flash - and you don't lose any of the shadows and light.

Yes, to me that's real photography - especially if you can bring it to a neg yourself (I used to have a little 'black box' to work in - looked like a straight jacket but kept the light out.)

I will never forget the excitement of seeing the film come out in negatives. All wet and stinky and ready to hang.

You're right anyone can take a digital photo, but not everyone can capture the art in photography. it takes more than a memory stick. glad to see it's still important to some of us.

I agree. Sure, digital photography can be fun, but it's simplistic. I much prefer darkroom photography; there's something about doing things the "old-fashioned way" (heaven forbid) that lends such complete control over every aspect of the process.

I have never seen a digital photo editor that can accomplish half of what I can do myself in the darkroom. The whole experience is just so much more authentic.