Film will never be replaced in character

[macsareback]

I used to shoot a lot of film, then I stopped shooting for 7 years. So back in 03 I was shooting manual Nikons and using Fuji and Kodak B&W films. It was a lot of fun, but of course a hassle to change films with different ISO's. Otherwise it was great to see how your pictures would show up after the roll was ready to be processed. I enjoyed making prints on larger sheets and seeing them start to appear as I would let them sit in the chemicals in the dark room. This experience was destroyed by digital, and now we're told to just shoot raw and go into photoshop and fix it. I think it is good to do basic enhancements, but content aware fill and these other plug-ins are killing the joy and creativity of photography. This is an opinion, I don't hate post processing, I just think that it's made people lazy.

 

[Wiener]

I am not really sure it makes people lazy...I think, though, that that their are now millions more 'amateur' images taken daily world-wide than were ever taken in 'days of film'. But is the percentage of truely great images much greater? If you play the numbers game, then probably there are...but perhaps the important point is that it gets more people getting hooked into trying? And the cost of failure is so slight that one learns so much faster than with film...IMHO, you have to weigh the good against the bad in this brave new digital world...
Andy