Have we reached peak digital?

[farmersteve]

Here is another new pro film article. But I am preaching to the choir here...

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-have-we-reached-peak-digital-photography

"A New Generation of Photographers Are Embracing Authenticity—and Finding It in Film"

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

"Manipulated photography existed long before Photoshop. Long before there were computers (never mind the infamous Skinnify app), Richard Avedon elongated models’ torsos and necks. He even physically cut-and-pasted heads and body parts. “The minute you pick up the camera you begin to lie—or to tell your own truth,” the late photographer once said."​

Oh dear...!

 

[Alan Johnson]

The media no longer creates "Star" digital photographers.
To follow a "Star" photographer, as I do, it has to be a film photographer from the past.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

This article is nothing new, but repeat of recent myth about fashion photogs switching to film. Some have tried it; some wedding photogs also tried film recently. But it has nothing to do with massive dominance of digital.
And what is the big deal if digital is dominant now? I like film and don't care what kind of crap they shot for fashion....

 

[farmersteve]

The only thing I care about is that Kodak and Fuji keep making color film. I think we are safe with Black and white. I think Fuji is getting close to pulling the plug...

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Current color film pricing and availability of labs is dead end for mass use.
We are safe with B&W because it is sold in bulks and developed at home. I have no idea why C-41 isn't sold in bulks. Developing color at home is as easy as BW...

 

[Lars Holte]

I don't shoot fashion, but now I feel "fashionable" shooting film

 

[pentaxuser]

In the long run the key question for most analogue film users, albeit a simple and boring question has to be: Is the number of analogue film users growing and if so by how much in actual numbers in both B&W and colour?

I confess to having only skim read the link article but I couldn't find an answer there. It wasn't a business article but a piece of journalism which was aimed at other than what I understand as being important for the viability of things analogue in the film industry or addressing the question of "are we over the worst" in terms of digital dominance

"Things analogue" needs to cover the future of darkroom printing as well which I suspect is equally important for those companies who make the stuff we use. My reading of previous comments by Ilford/Harman suggests to me that it and no doubt other companies who make very few, if any, appearances here on APUG are still a little worried about the "printing darkroom" side of things

pentaxuser