This past Wednesday I (and about 50 other photographers) attended the dress rehearsal of a ballet in Markham (Actual ballet pictures will follow, once we get through a rather Byzantine approvals process). Most people in the room were shooting digital only, although I was shooting both film and digital. There was one other person there though shooting film, using an absolutely gorgeous Hasselblad 500C medium format camera.
As the ballet took place, the room was alive with the sounds of shutters clicking, including the sound of one shooter who felt he or she needed to shoot 8 frames per second to capture a dancer spinning. But every now and then, out of the din of digital shutters, CLUNK. It was the sound of the Hasselblad shooter firing her shutter.
It was a beautiful, authoritative, absolutely analog sound, and it was interesting to see other photographers turn their heads at the unfamiliar sound. Without trying to wax too poetical, the sound of the Hasselblad shutter firing expressed the soul of photography, more than the tinny little click of a DSLR shutter ever could.
My Third Eye 
mmm . . . some nice equipment in the photo. I see by the blurs in you picture that you’re shooting at a low shutter speed. Looking forward to seeing your shots.
The pros have to shoot in digital. They don’t have the luxury of time when they make a living a sending their images to the editor ASAP, like a minute after the scene has been shot.
Isn’t it weird the way everyone looks over to that old familiar sound. It’s as if a community is wondering if the person doesn’t know a revolution has taken place only to find that the particular photographer desires to shoot in analogue.
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It was easy to indulge in some gear lust in that room 🙂
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