ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP)—Pho­to­jour­nal­ist Chris Usher usu­ally relies on dig­i­tal tech­nol­ogy. When he wants some­thing spe­cial, though, he reaches for a film camera.

”I shoot just as much dig­i­tal as the next guy out of neces­sity,” Usher said. ”I use film prob­a­bly a third of the time, on per­sonal projects 100 per­cent of the time. There’s a rich­ness and a depth of field that becomes more preva­lent when you’re shoot­ing film as opposed to dig­i­tal. It has a tan­gi­ble feel to it.”

Even as the dig­i­tal rev­o­lu­tion is trans­form­ing pho­tog­ra­phy, more than two-thirds of pro­fes­sional pho­tog­ra­phers in a sur­vey released Wednes­day said they still pre­fer using film for cer­tain tasks, prais­ing its abil­ity to add an almost organic qual­ity to pictures.