Opinions: Photography- Medium Format/Film vs. Digital Photography

I need advice and opinions.... For photography would you rather have your pics taken in medium format/film or digital? I can't decide... I know so much can be done with digital and all of the computer software...But I just feel like $4,000- $5,000 for photography taken with digital pics is crazy. To me, it's as if it's okay for the photographer to get bad shots because they can either crop and correct it or just take more as opposed to film where every shot needs to be perfect.

What do you think????

Thanks-

i weighed the digital vs. film and wound up going with film (35mm). IMO$4,000- $5,000 for photography period is crazy, double crazy for digital...

i plan to scan my negatives and create a digital album. i will be working with my photographer to do this...

The three I know that use digital are Photo by Verdi, North Island Photography and 12th Night. I think all 3 are amazing and have seen pictures from weddings and was blown away. If I had the money I would have went with Verdi. They are in the over $4500 range and North Island starts at $4200. I got the best of both worlds: awesome photographers that shoot digital and film, all my negatives, and a great studio to work with for half the price of Verdi and North Island. I personally think digital pictures are fabulous in that you can do so many things with them like change to black and white with color, make your own prints, create your own thank you cards, and then you have film too which is classic. We are having two photographers one regular using mostly digital camera and also carrying a regular film camera and a photojournalist photographer taking all black and white film. So I think 12th Night is great for that reason. You get both digital and film. Now that I think of it DUET does film and digital also. I met with them and they were great. Good prices too. It all depends on what style you want and how you feel when you are with the photographer. I loved Dominic the owner of 12th Night from the first day I met him. But to answer your question you don't have to choose go to a studio that uses both :)

Kim

ok here is my opinion on it, we picked Duet because they will do both for you, but majority of the pictures are film... I just feel like digital is so much easier for the photographers, it seems like too easy, pretty much anyone can do it... I know it is great because you can do great things with the pictures on the comp and it is great because you can always do the picture over, but still just seems too easy... I want my photographer to know that most of the time there are no do overs and try to get the perfect shot... I dont know, does it makes sense what I am trying to say?

The difference in print quality between digital and film images is negligible. It's not a case of shooting digital being 'too easy' in fact, digital cameras require more light than a regular camera, so your photographer has to actually pay more attention to things like flash, available light, etc. And it's not as if photographers don't crop or alter your pictures that were shot with film either. All of that can be done with either format. what's nice about the digital is that your photographer can see what he's doing as he's shooting, so if you have an amazing shot that you want, he or she can tell you right away if they've got it. No photographer can have every shot be perfect, in fact most photographers only get 3 to 4 good images per roll of film they shoot!!

I've worked with many, many photographers (I was a press officer at a ballet company) and can tell you that almost everyone shoots digital these days - from staffers at the Times to fashion photographers shooting for big glossies like Vogue.

I used Duet and I was very happy with them. I asked them ahead of time if they shoot digital or film. They told me film is much better. Now, while I don't particularly agree with that, I didn't argue because it's what they're comfortable with. But you should be aware that whenever you scan an image taken with film in order to use in a digital album, you lose a little bit of the quality. You cut out a step when you use digital images because they are already in the computer. AGain, it's so small an amount that you probably won't even notice.