I thought this was interesting for those who follow trends:
Well, I contacted Fuji about inquiries for GX680 III updates and continuity and received a very heartwarming message when asking about film:
"Fujifilm will not bring out any further medium format cameras. We are
still very much behind the manufacture of film though.
-Fujifilm co."
I've never given up film, I shoot it almost as much as digital. They both have their own "markets". There are some photos that look better when shot on film and processed by myself in the darkroom, others look better when shot with digital. I enjoy both worlds, there's no need to reject either one of them. For some, dragging film beside digital is very frustrating, and in commercial photography film is almost completely futile, but for creative art photographers film still has it's best trick up the sleeve: Analog uncertainty, flexibility of the medium and the different fractal-like levels associated with producing a final image with the chemicals (almost uncountable amount of different factors).
Targets i use digital for:
- Most studio shoots
- Architecture photography (except when I need the advantage of mf over dslrs)
- All kind of action/group/mass shoots
- Targets where i need low noise
- Targets which require fast processing and delivery
Targets i use film for:
- Big resolution images when stitching is not possible (I can't afford a digital back so mf film works great)
- Film and enlarging experiments with chemicals and light
- Meditative shooting
- Targets where I need excessive panorama image or curved film planes
- Pinhole photography