With exposures that may take as long as an hour, you really don’t know what the end result will be. There is a little bit of faith involved, and a lot of imagination. That, and the fact that you have to wait to develop the film, just adds to the excitement.

Fred Conrad: Slow Photography in an Instantaneous Age

The other day me and Maria were appaled by this group of kids doing some photographic assignment, compulsively using the continuous shutter on their digicam (perhaps people feel more pro if they hear a continuous shutter - but thirty seconds for a single pose is a bit too much), taking literally thousands of uninteresting photos of people sitting - why not videotape stuff in HD and grab a still, then?

I like the immediacy of the digital, as long as you known and respect the craft. The digital as a crutch for laziness is poison. (via Kottke)