eddie
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You made a blanket statement.
You made a blanket statement.
More people will make their own film (and paper).
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Attached: Handmade film in a Pentax 645N with a long lens (Auto-everything. Nice sometimes!)
"Film is dead" is a statement, but "film is going to die out in 2015" is a prediction based on an opinion.
Recently, NBC news reported a large increase in vinyl record sales! Are they coming back? No, but the market increased. Same thing happened for film in mid year 2014, a mild surge in film sales.
Bottom line, film is NOT dead, it will not die out in 2015. It will get harder to purchase film and processing supplies and products will vanish. APUG members and subscribers will help keep it alive. Kodak is not giving up but they have been hurt by these changes as has Fuji.
PE
True enough. So I amend my initial post as follows: "In 2015 more people on APUG will come to what is apparently a very painful realization for them: Film is dying."
This is an absurd statement. There are many journalists doing excellent work, and risking their lives to inform us. More than a few have paid the ultimate price in trying to keep the world informed.
Actually, I think it is digital that is dying. Not phones of course but the digital that has attempted to mimic the old film form factors that really made no sense. That is why the smartphone is eating the digital camera's lunch. People have started to realize that they don't need that digital monstrosity sitting in the closet. In fact, not only do they not need it, it doesn't even do what they want to do anymore. The newer models don't either.
What is it they want to do? They want to share. Just like the people who shot slides in the 50s, 60s and 70s so they could put on slide shows. But the smartphone has made it so much smoother. And you don't have to wait until you get back from Rome either. You can do it the moment you take the picture.
So what is left?
So trust me when I say to you that film is not dead. Nor, I think, will it be in another five seconds...
Going around and proclaiming that something is dead is just plain weird... Like, creepy weird.
Going around and proclaiming that something is dead is just plain weird... Like, creepy weird.
What if it is a parrot?:munch:
It's particularly weird under the circumstances, like barging into a tiddlywinks forum and proclaiming not only that tiddlywinks are dead but you cannot source "tiddlies" any more and then, when provided with multiple links proving that tiddlies are, in fact, still readily available, accusing the forum of being in denial.
No one disputes that the market for film and traditional darkroom products is a tiny fraction of what it was before digital. No one disputes that there are fewer sources. But there ARE sources, and if you want to use it for artistic reasons or because you just enjoy it, the products are still readily available and easy to buy, at least in the US.
There's some kind of weird cross between Chicken Little and Eeyore here, without the gloomy charm of Eeyore.
Can't help it- it's them tiddies...Yes, don't tiddle your wink!
Foma will continious to provide low cost film and papers on all formats and sizes.
This is all I need to know.
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