Digital Camera or Film?

[SignguyTom]

As far as my vacation picture taking goes, I have gone strictly digital. I snap pics of anything and everything. I have thousands of pics that I probably would never have taken with a film camera. Some are good, a few great, lots not-so great.

I just got tired of buying/developing film, loading the camera. hoping it's loaded correctly, hoping the film is good, hoping the developers keep track of it...etc...


Now, once we return from a trip, we take a look at all of our digital pics and copy/paste the good ones into a new folder on the computer. We always save all of them, though - good or bad.

It's then very easy to upload them to an online photo center. Sam's Club & Wal-Mart do it as well as some "real" camera shops. You can have them printed, in an hour if you wish, at any location offering the service. For instance, you can take pics in the morning, upload them in the afternoon, and have them ready to pick up down the street and/or across the country in an hour. The prints are way better, IMHO, than any I can print at home and they only cost like 15¢ each.

What are your thoughts? Do you use film or have you gone digital too?

Side note: We do use the 35mm underwater disposable cameras for the water parks.

[faline]

We're strictly digital at this point.

[mickey&missy]

Digital!

I love being able to take so many pictures and then manipulate them. I crop, zoom in, turn them B&W etc. I would love to have photo shop!

I also love to share all my pictures with family and friends with a quick email link.

[IloveDisney71]

I use both 35 mm & digital. I had just gotten into photography before the digital camera boom and had bought a really nice 35 mm camera. BUT I love my digital because it's small.
If I know I'm going to be at a park for just a little while, I'll use my 35 mm camera (it's big). If I'm going to be at a park all day, I use my digital camera.
I always get my 35 mm pictures put on a cd, so I can bring them home and manipulate them.

[AwPhooey]

I'm 99% digital. The only time I use regular film cameras is when I'm afraid of my good camera getting wet/damaged.

For example, when I went parasailing on my last trip, I bought a disposable Kodak camera so I could take photos while I was up in the air without the fear of dropping a $300 camera into Bay Lake. That would not have been good

[mrsgaribaldi]

We are digital too

[tinklover]

We are all digital here as well. I have learned teh hard way to always have your charger with you though lol as i posted in my very first post my trip report i had to fly home for court half way thru my vacation and my battery died so my dad put my memory card in his phone to show my brother the pics. when i got back to florida i put the camera on teh charger and put the card back in so i would not lose it and my dad's phone had reconfigured the card so i lost all 176 photos of my DDs' 2and 4 and myDBF's first disney trip . thank god my mom was there with her camera and thank god for photopass. our next trip in june the card is not leaving my camera and we plan on doing the pre-trip photopass deal.

[SignguyTom]

We are all digital here as well. I have learned teh hard way to always have your charger with you though lol as i posted in my very first post my trip report i had to fly home for court half way thru my vacation and my battery died so my dad put my memory card in his phone to show my brother the pics. when i got back to florida i put the camera on teh charger and put the card back in so i would not lose it and my dad's phone had reconfigured the card so i lost all 176 photos of my DDs' 2and 4 and myDBF's first disney trip . thank god my mom was there with her camera and thank god for photopass. our next trip in june the card is not leaving my camera and we plan on doing the pre-trip photopass deal.

What is the pre-trip Photopass deal you mention?

[SignguyTom]

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I always get my 35 mm pictures put on a cd, so I can bring them home and manipulate them.

Cool...I forgot you could do this with regular film!

[JPL]

100% Digital

It was actually funny about a month or 2 ago I found a roll of undeveloped 35mm film. After paying to have developed and put on cd (around $15) I didn't even like the pictures they were horrible compared to the digital pictures where if it's something I really want a picture of I can take 10 and pick the best of the bunch. It definately took me back to the days of film rationing and praying they came out ok

[GoinGoofyPlanninThisTrip]

I had to check twice - I thought this post was dated about eight years ago. (Just kidding.)

We're 100% digital. We select our favorite Disney trip photos along with our favorite Disney tunes, put them on a SD card and watch the slide show on the Wii. To do that with 35mm - too much time, too many steps and too much money.

[SignguyTom]

I had to check twice - I thought this post was dated about eight years ago. (Just kidding.)

We're 100% digital. We select our favorite Disney trip photos along with our favorite Disney tunes, put them on a SD card and watch the slide show on the Wii. To do that with 35mm - too much time, too many steps and too much money.

Yeah it's a topic that I'm sure was hammered to death a few years ago. I brought it up because I saw some folks struggling with film at DLR last month. There was also a post in another thread about a developing company which lost 6 rolls of WDW film/pics. Just curious how many people still used film.

I like your idea with the Wii. I know very little about them - I didn't know they have a SD port We do the same thing except I just burn our pics onto a CD and show them using our DVD player. Sure is a lot simpler these days to show your pics to a group, isn't it? I remember my dad fighting with the slide projector, getting the slides upsidedown or backwards, the slide trays jamming, the focus being off, the pics being washed out. Much better now!!

[Nurse Kim]

I used to do both but I got tired of film be double developed or being black so we just use a digital camera now. We are taking our first Disney Trip in March and plan to buy an extra memory card to take along. I will also have my laptop so we can unload the pictures each day.
We plan to buy the Photopass CD as well. DH says I am the most camera happy person he has ever met. There is nothing my kids have ever done that I don't have a picture of and I can't wait to caputre every minute of their first Disney vacation.

Kim

[bleukarma]

I think I am the only person in the entire world without a digital camera! I just haven’t gotten around to buying one. I was going to buy myself one on the day after Thanksgiving but I ended up spending the money on something else. I used to be “anti-digital” because I was into photography and I thought film was the way to do things, but I was young and stupid. Since then I’ve played with friends digital camera’s I realize that digital is the way to go! Hopefully in the next few months I’ll have one!

[CPT Trips]

What's film?

[kakn7294]

We use both. DD12 and I both use digital cameras. DD8 uses an APS film camera - but she'll probably be asking for a digital soon. We have also used the waterproof disposables for the pool / water park. I greatly prefer the digital because I can see what pictures are bad and delete them either directly on the camera or on the computer before I pay to have them developed. I also seem to have trouble actually getting the film somewhere to have it developed and I hate when there's pictures on the roll that can't be developed because the whole roll hasn't been used yet.

[pookiebear38]

So, we're mostly digital, but there are some times when 35mm just does better than digital, especially low light or high activity events. For vacation? I'll stick with the 2 digital cameras for ease. We have an everyday, somewhat inexpensive Kodak that works decent on most things, but for the good pics, we'll use the SLR. I'm just not allowed to take the SLR by myself just because I dropped our last favorite camera in the ocean. Oooops! It was the shark's fault!
Okay, so not allowed is a little harsh, but DH would rather I not be in charge of the camera....

[ldn324]

We are 100% digital as well. As others have stated, we enjoy the ability to just snap pics of whatever we want without fear of wasting film. We can always go back and delete the bad ones.

Gosh, I still have about 10 rolls of film that never have been developed - going on like 7-8 years. With digital, it's nice to know that will never happen again.

[TheRustyScupper]

My only reference to film, is that it gathers on bathtubs.

[RaRaRoundTheWorld]

We've been digital for years. The only reason I use film is when I'm taking artistic pictures because I personally feel the resolution is still much better than most less expensive digital cameras.