An excellent post by San Diego based photographer Robert Benson. He talks to photographers he calls the ‘holdouts’ – the shooters who still use film and shun digital:
Photographer Simon Watson describes digital photography images like this: “There is a smoothness that is so ugly and slick. It looks like a gimmick.” And another photographer says: “The world doesn’t need more megapixels.”
Similar feelings come from a legion of professional editorial photographers out there who are quietly going about their image making business with film: the good old organic stuff. Their reasons for shooting film are similar: “It makes you a better photographer,” says one shooter. “…It’s more sophisticated looking than film…”, “film has a richness unmatched by digital…”, and “it has a depth and painterly quality…”