Film is not dead: Demand soars for vintage cameras in developing trend

[CMoore]

I use to tell my students "It's the nearest you will get to magic".

This is great to hear! I’m so glad a new generation is discovering the magic, because that’s what made the experience so amazing to me. It still feels that way.

I still see the magic, a perfect description........... be it developing film or making prints.
To quote Victor Frankenstein................. Its Alive..!!!

 

[Sal Santamaura]

...Sal must have been really fun when this song started playing on the radio...

Even in 1967 (I was a teenager and regular watcher of the Ed Sullivan Show), I knew "magic" wasn't real and that those who performed it used scientific principles to dupe their audiences. As for The Lovin' Spoonful, when acts like that came on I took the opportunity to use the bathroom and/or get some munchies from the kitchen. My preferences even then were for performances of bossa nova and jazz rather than the then-popular "music." Time spent on the high school bus, where rock blared continuously, triggered my allergy to it. It also motivated my abandoning the bus for the last two years and walking back and forth to school -- two miles away -- despite winter weather.

...most prefer "Magician,"...

Of course they do. Why would they advertise to their audiences that what they're doing is illusion based on science? P.T. Barnum's dictum is why they earn a living; truthfulness would kill the golden goose.

 

[Cholentpot]

How about gender neutral.

How do you feel about frilly toothpicks?

 

[Sirius Glass]

How do you feel about frilly toothpicks?

Non sequitur

 

[Cholentpot]

Even in 1967 (I was a teenager and regular watcher of the Ed Sullivan Show), I knew "magic" wasn't real and that those who performed it used scientific principles to dupe their audiences. As for The Lovin' Spoonful, when acts like that came on I took the opportunity to use the bathroom and/or get some munchies from the kitchen. My preferences even then were for performances of bossa nova and jazz rather than the then-popular "music." Time spent on the high school bus, where rock blared continuously, triggered my allergy to it. It also motivated my abandoning the bus for the last two years and walking back and forth to school -- two miles away -- despite winter weather.



Of course they do. Why would they advertise to their audiences that what they're doing is illusion based on science? P.T. Barnum's dictum is why they earn a living; truthfulness would kill the golden goose.

I guess you don't believe in magic in a youthful appearing non-gender specific individual's cardiac zone.

 

[Cholentpot]

Non sequitur

You're not part of the club.

 

[Sirius Glass]

You're not part of the club.

That is ok, I would not want to be in a club that you belong to.

 

[Cholentpot]

That is ok, I would not want to be in a club that you belong to.

I don't want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members - GM

 

[Huss]

How about gender neutral.

So, like the Switzerland of gods?

 

[Pieter12]

The Flying Spaghetti Monster has no gender.

And on topic, this just was published: https://www.rangefinderonline.com/n...aign=RF+Eng+20221025+-+Analog+Film+s+Comeback

Contrary to the general positive tone of the article, I do like this quote from the 2nd paragraph: "Before we get further into this trending, overpriced, understocked novelty medium..."

 

[Huss]

The Flying Spaghetti Monster has no gender.

And on topic, this just was published: https://www.rangefinderonline.com/news-features/analog-film-comeback/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Trend+or+Fad:+Analog+Film+s+Comeback+and+Why+We+Love+It&utm_campaign=RF+Eng+20221025+-+Analog+Film+s+Comeback

Contrary to the general positive tone of the article, I do like this quote from the 2nd paragraph: "Before we get further into this trending, overpriced, understocked novelty medium..."

And I like the first quote from the first paragraph

It’s so desired now that the film companies are doubling their prices due while the processing labs are overwhelmed by the demand. We love it and think it's here to stay.

My dear old Austrian mum had a word for mopey, woe is me, pessimistic people like you. She called them sauerkrauts.

 

[Mike Lopez]

Even in 1967 (I was a teenager and regular watcher of the Ed Sullivan Show), I knew "magic" wasn't real and that those who performed it used scientific principles to dupe their audiences. As for The Lovin' Spoonful, when acts like that came on I took the opportunity to use the bathroom and/or get some munchies from the kitchen. My preferences even then were for performances of bossa nova and jazz rather than the then-popular "music." Time spent on the high school bus, where rock blared continuously, triggered my allergy to it. It also motivated my abandoning the bus for the last two years and walking back and forth to school -- two miles away -- despite winter weather.



Of course they do. Why would they advertise to their audiences that what they're doing is illusion based on science? P.T. Barnum's dictum is why they earn a living; truthfulness would kill the golden goose.

Were you living in San Clemente in the 1980s? If so, what's your opinion of that great basketball player Earvin "Science" Johnson? He was pretty good.

 

[Huss]

Were you living in San Clemente in the 1980s? If so, what's your opinion of that great basketball player Earvin "Science" Johnson? He was pretty good.

I’m wondering how rough that winter walk to school was in sunny southern california san clemente. It can be brutal walking in 65 degree weather.

 

[CMoore]

Were you living in San Clemente in the 1980s? If so, what's your opinion of that great basketball player Earvin "Science" Johnson? He was pretty good.

Thanks for the King Size laugh
Been watching a lot of Larry Bird videos lately............. Magic was a big part of Bird, of course

 

[Mike Lopez]

I’m wondering how rough that winter walk to school was in sunny southern california san clemente. It can be brutal walking in 65 degree weather.

Well, there is some topography down there...maybe it was uphill both ways.

 

[Mike Lopez]

Thanks for the King Size laugh
Been watching a lot of Larry Bird videos lately............. Magic was a big part of Bird, of course

Certainly...those two were like Lennon and McCartney, Jobs and Wozniak, Gates and Allen...

If you haven't watched Winning Time yet (a ten-part series released early this year), I can wholeheartedly recommend it.

 

[Truzi]

As for The Lovin' Spoonful, when acts like that came on I took the opportunity to use the bathroom and/or get some munchies from the kitchen. My preferences even then were for performances of bossa nova and jazz rather than the then-popular "music." Time spent on the high school bus, where rock blared continuously, triggered my allergy to it.

So you made up your mind?

 

[Cholentpot]

I’m wondering how rough that winter walk to school was in sunny southern california san clemente. It can be brutal walking in 65 degree weather.

I carried my grade school kid to class last year in the snow because they refused to close. And then went back a half-hour later to pick up.

Was a surreal experience. For the kid too.

Took along a camera of course. Loaded with trashed film of course. So now I have an odd portal into a strange episode.

 

[Sirius Glass]

The Flying Spaghetti Monster has no gender.

And on topic, this just was published: https://www.rangefinderonline.com/news-features/analog-film-comeback/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Trend+or+Fad:+Analog+Film+s+Comeback+and+Why+We+Love+It&utm_campaign=RF+Eng+20221025+-+Analog+Film+s+Comeback

Contrary to the general positive tone of the article, I do like this quote from the 2nd paragraph: "Before we get further into this trending, overpriced, understocked novelty medium..."

"Before we get further into this trending, overpriced, understocked novelty medium..." sounds like a journalist crying in his beer just begging to find something to be negative about. Eeyore, how long did it take for you to dig to find someone who believes in your sad sack view?

 

[Pieter12]

Well, there is some topography down there...maybe it was uphill both ways.

Not to mention the possible mudslides...

 

[Pieter12]

"Before we get further into this trending, overpriced, understocked novelty medium..." sounds like a journalist crying in his beer just begging to find something to be negative about. Eeyore how long did it take for you to dig to find someone who believes in your sad sack view?

If you read the article, you would understand that these were the subject's, not the reporter's words. And I didn't have to dig at all. It came to me today from Rangefinder's email newsletter.

 

[Sal Santamaura]

Were you living in San Clemente in the 1980s?...

Been a resident of this city since 1978.

...If so, what's your opinion of that great basketball player Earvin "Science" Johnson? He was pretty good.

I've as much (little, if any) interest in sports as in rock "music." Nonetheless, Magic amazed the masses with his skillful understanding of physics and excellent muscle control, the same way illusionists do with "magic."

I’m wondering how rough that winter walk to school was in sunny southern california san clemente. It can be brutal walking in 65 degree weather.

In 1967, throughout high school and college, in fact from birth until 1978, I lived first in New York City and then suburbs just outside it. There was no 65-degree weather in December through March, I quite assure you. And anthropogenic global warming hadn't yet reduced the average snowfall in those places to any significant degree.

Well, there is some topography down there...maybe it was uphill both ways.

Not to mention the possible mudslides...

Those who rely on an understanding of the natural world via science take such things into consideration when selecting a San Clemente home location. I will say it was very entertaining during the 1982-1983 El Niño to leave our house and go look over the Capistrano Beach bluff edge, wearing full rain gear, watching science-eschewing people's homes disintegrate, then wash out to sea. Perhaps they were relying on "magic" for protection.

So you made up your mind?

About most things, even before high school. Not much credible new evidence has turned up since to cast doubt on my conclusions.

 

[Pieter12]

Perhaps they were relying on "magic" for protection.

They were probably relying on the Realtor's promise that it would never possibly happen--at least not to them. People today generally lack the ability to think critically.

 

[VinceInMT]

While I suggested “wonder” as an alternative to ”magic” to explain the experience many of us have had, it struck me today that the word “awe” is probably closer to it. And, in fact, much has been written about how science and art both elicit that feeling.

On a related note (no pun intended) music puts me in that “awe” thing quite frequently. And not just one type of music. I am no music snob and enjoy ALL music as I am in awe of the collective creativity that brings it to me and the skills involved, particularly doing things I cannot (and I do play a couple of instruments.)

 

[Huss]

Photrio - the site where a discussion for the demand of vintage film cameras devolves into houses being washed into the ocean.