Buy the camera for your wife, then borrow it.
You're right, Rob. She likes a wide lens variety. That's important to her.Can't go wrong with advice like that. I hear she's also interested in the 180mm.
If you intend to do commercial work with film, you will need two bodies in case one breaks in the middle of an assignment. Your clients are not going to accept "my camera broke" as an excuse for not being able to deliver the assignment in a timely manner.
That goes for digital, too. And motion.
you will need two bodies in case one breaks i
This wisdom is from a man who has clearly been married for longer than I have!
I had a feeling there was a swap that occurred. The top image is so incredibly razor sharp that one can actually see silhouettes of people in the individual windows. Or, at least, I think I can.
You're right, Rob. She likes a wide lens variety. That's important to her.
I can't imagine a 21st century client A) paying for film and processing, A) paying for scans, or C) waiting for all that get done.
If you don't tell them it's film, and you develop it (it takes a a the most a couple of hours after shooting) and scan it (takes another half hour), how would they know? Film is not slow. People are slow.
So far, looks like the answer to OP's question is "very, very few." I've toyed with the idea myself, but haven't done the research to see if it's viable. I would think it would only make sense if you offered wet prints as the final product. There's GOT to be a market for folks with disposable income to show off their "red room" portrait hanging on the wall........??
There has to be those who want an upper echelon print for their chosen subject, shot through film for an extra layer of depth and aura.
There are many "retro" fads going on today. Unfortunately, I believe film photography for weddings is one of them. Vinyl records for the masses is another. I recently stayed at a hotel that had an analog alarm clock and a boom box with cassette tapes on the nightstand. The clock never had its battery installed.There is a niche market, probably growing, for film photography of weddings. I read an article about this in the NY Times just a couple weeks ago https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/...edding-film-photography-has-a-resurgence.html - but you don't need an article to know this. Just go look at the websites of current film labs, and see what they are showing as examples of their work, for ex https://thefindlab.com/ , or Richard Photo Lab or Indie film lab. There's wedding and portrait film photography all over it. Now, that's a generally different market from what the OP asked about for product / studio photography, and I'm sure wedding / portrait clients have a very different set of needs from art directors or other commercial photography clients, that may tend to support film as a viable niche.
There are many "retro" fads going on today. Unfortunately, I believe film photography for weddings is one of them. Vinyl records for the masses is another. I recently stayed at a hotel that had an analog alarm clock and a boom box with cassette tapes on the nightstand. The clock never had its battery installed.
No, it was a battery-operated clock. And pretty much just a prop to appeal to the hip, boho crowd. The boom box might not have even been operable for all I know. I do know the cassettes did not seem to be in their original cases, they had what looked like generic, plain-wrappers with a title on it. There might not even have been tapes inside.So the clock did not have battery backup for power outages, but as long as the power was on the clock would run, if it were plugged in.
No, it was a battery-operated clock. And pretty much just a prop to appeal to the hip, boho crowd. The boom box might not have even been operable for all I know. I do know the cassettes were not in their original cases, they had generic, plain-wrappers with a title on it, all matching. There might not even have been tapes inside.
Vinyl records for the masses is another. I recently stayed at a hotel that had an analog alarm clock and a boom box with cassette tapes on the nightstand.
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