Be sure that FILM never dies. I DO still use my film camera, Minolta Dynax 7. lookaround360 wrote: > > Mark, > > Lately change seems to have accelerated and popular wisdom has not held > up. Suddenly big corporations and industries are having to slough off > units and greatly increase prices they never anticipated six months ago > - Dow, GM, Kodak. I'm certain traditional B/W film will become an > "alternative process" hobby or art medium sooner - if it isn't already. > Certainly commercial color film makes little sense today. The only > short-term hope perhaps may be scientific and cinema films. > > I'm a true believer in film photography and will devoutly continue with > it to the end if only B/W is left. Spending the time learning quality > color negative processing is a dead-end skill with little reward - and > the economics of doing so would be insane! I don't think storage issues > for digital media are as big a problem as feared by some. At least any > more than typical family storage disciplines have always been. All > those tapes and CD's will get ruined in the box in the basement just > like the negs (color especially) and prints! Some guy will always be > making a buck doing transfers from one medium to the next over the > decades. Try that with film. Of course the grand kid stuck with the > family flash cards three media generations down the road may just toss > them out. > > AZ > > Build a 120/35mm Lookaround! > The Lookaround Book. > Now an E-book. > http://www.panoramacamera.us > > > >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: [SPAM] RE: funeral >> From: Mark Blackwell <mblackwell1958@xxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Fri, August 08, 2008 4:45 pm >> To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students >> <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> I wouldn't be so quick to call film gone. It will change, but all in all >> there may be some upsides to some of the changes. >> First of all digital will and for all practical purposes taken over the >> consumer market. That will end the days when any drugstore would be able >> to soup your film in a hurry. It will affect the development of new film >> cameras. You may already have seen the peak of film camera development >> even though technology will march on. Still I have been considering >> picking up a used Canon EOS 1V to use the rest of my life. >> Film still has a number of uses that at this point digital can not really >> match. We know a great deal about long term film storage, but not so >> much about how digital archiving will work in 40 years. >> The one good thing is that when you do find someone that will do your >> film for you, they are far more likely to know what they are doing than >> the teenager on a summer job trying to make college money. Every one has >> seen the type. They got 5 minutes training from a manager that couldn't >> tell the difference between a shutter speed and an f stop, and all of a >> sudden they are experts. Then they take the roll of Velvia you brought >> it to send out, and get it mixed up the with Kodak Portra 160VC, and film >> is film right so they just run them both through the C 41 chemistry. >> You also may have to return to the ways of photographers of old. Do your >> own. Local processing may not be readily available at all in many areas. >> Yet for the longest time photographers were expected to be able to do >> their own darkroom work. Like most of you out there I still do for all >> my black and white work. I can do color IF I REALLY REALLY had to, but I >> would sure like to avoid doing so. >> Though the big companies will cut back, I believe that for a long time to >> come smaller companies can take the demand out there for film and make a >> thriving business out of it. Would it be enough for a major multi >> national corporation to consider important? No but it would be >> profitable for much smaller companies and last I heard, you don't go >> broke making a small profit. >> --- On Fri, 8/8/08, lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> <lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > From: lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> > Subject: RE: funeral >> > To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" >> <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> > Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 3:15 PM >> > Emily, >> > >> > That is not a good omen for us film shooters. Do you >> > suppose the Global >> > economic down-turn will accelerate the demise of film? An >> > up-to-date >> > web page of working labs would be handy. Regular PDN >> > readers on this >> > list might know??? I'm doing my Portra 35mm at a local >> > one-hour lab - >> > develop only. I process my own B/W. >> > >> > AZ >> > >> > Build a 120/35mm Lookaround! >> > The Lookaround Book. >> > Now an E-book. >> > http://www.panoramacamera.us >> > >> > >> > >> > > -------- Original Message -------- >> > > Subject: [SPAM] funeral >> > > From: "Emily L. Ferguson" >> > <elf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> > > Date: Fri, August 08, 2008 12:52 am >> > > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - >> > Students >> > > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> > > A lab in Burlington, Vermont, holds a funeral! >> > > http://www.pdnpulse.com/2008/08/video-vermont-l.html >> > > -- >> > > Emily L. Ferguson >> > > mailto:elf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > > 508-563-6822 >> > > New England landscapes, wooden boats and races >> > > http://www.landsedgephoto.com >> > > http://e-and-s.instaproofs.com/ > > > ----- I was born and brought up in Iran, a beautiful country full of history. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kombizz/sets/ k o m b i z z -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/RE%3A--SPAM--RE%3A-funeral-tp18899330p18910920.html Sent from the Photo Forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
