do professional photographers still use film or is it all digital?

Answer 1

Film still lives. The price of digital medium format backs is still outrageous. View cameras are still used for commercial photography and landscape photography. Film is dying but it's still needed by some and treasured by others. Some people don't need digital to produce their art, film has its own allure. If you are familiar with a tool that produces sale-able images upgrading or downgrading, depending on your opinion, to digital doesn't always make sense.
If I had thousands of dollars tied up in my film cameras, I'd think twice of spending more money if the financial rewards aren't there.

Answer 2

If professional photographers are using digital, why is Hassleblad increasing its manufacture of film cameras. Digital will not give you the results of film and many pros have cast away their film cameras for digitals, but find that they cannot equal film and going back. A digital back for my Mamiya RB67 will cost between $4000 and $5000.

Answer 3

It depends again on the photographer and assignment.
If you're shooting for a newspaper with deadlines, you would definitely use digital. Photojournalists use it because you can
transmit it from anywhere via satellite.

For day-to-day things like portraits, they are likely to use digital.

Most still shoot with film.
A digital camera makes for good test shots to check the lighting however, and is slowly supplanting Polaroid film in the role.

Answer 4

I try to use both 35mm and digital...most other photographers I have talked to only believe in digital...either way you go you can alter the pictures in different ways, whether its with dyes and bleach or through photoshop...(although you can get 35mm pics into photoshop with a scanner or even a pic cd) but I enjoy developing my own film and enlargeing and bleaching the prints...just seems like it takes more talent this way.

Answer 5

Probably most who do portraits, etc., have gone digital, but photographers who are more on the artsy side (as opposed to commercial) probably use film a lot of the time.

Answer 6

Film is not dying, we have no plans of switching to digital in filmmaking, at least not those of us who have a large budget, film, at least moving picture film is still a lot ahead of anything digital

Answer 7

It all depends uppon the preference of the individual photographer some prefer the verstility of digital others prefer the clairity of film but most are now transferring to digital