Personally I'm amazed at this thread and read through it firstly because I love some of the films in question, and secondly this is such a long piece I chain-writing I just have to get my opinion on the board.
I plan to continue shooting with film until I can no longer do so - although I'd be very upset if MF disappears as I'm very new to it and am loving it immensely.
I've only been 'back' to photography for a couple of years - I shot with a lovely Minolta 35mm about 8 years ago when I was in school and studying photography - I spent about a year and a half of late-night/early morning photo-taking followed by late morning - end of evening printing in the school darkroom each and every day. I've only VERY recently decided to pursue photography professionally and am just beginning to get my name out in my small community of London, Ontario, Canada.
One of the main motivating factors for venturing into a career in photography was the discovery in the popular media of so many interesting-looking cameras. I live with a girl who is a fashion-nut and we would frequently watch television shows & documentaries where I would see these glorious-looking pieces of equipment being negotiated by some clever lady or fellow (usually clad in black) hanging out in the shadows of magazine shoots. It was a little while later that I realized that many of them were shooting with digital backs...but not all of them...and in fact almost all of them (when I started looking into it) shoot digital as a 'back up' to ensure they have something to work with though they usually print from their colour reversal films.
And then I found this place
Nothing much to say about that - you all can look around at this community - it's stupendous!
In the end: I love the process of film...and I can't give it up now that I've started doing it for a living. It all seems like a dream come true at this point and I can't even imagine it coming to an end because of a lack of materials. If that ends up happening I say we all pitch in and bring film back to life from the ground up - I'll be glad to sweep the factory floors
Contributors, thanks to you all once again, and I hope I can keep the knowledge alive from this lonely outpost!
p.s. - Scott Sheppard: You can certainly count on me to keep buying film - I'm currently shooting about 3-4 rolls per week (and that's simply in portfolio-development, I have several jobs coming up where I plan to blow through plenty of my growing stockpile)
I plan to continue shooting with film until I can no longer do so - although I'd be very upset if MF disappears as I'm very new to it and am loving it immensely.
I've only been 'back' to photography for a couple of years - I shot with a lovely Minolta 35mm about 8 years ago when I was in school and studying photography - I spent about a year and a half of late-night/early morning photo-taking followed by late morning - end of evening printing in the school darkroom each and every day. I've only VERY recently decided to pursue photography professionally and am just beginning to get my name out in my small community of London, Ontario, Canada.
One of the main motivating factors for venturing into a career in photography was the discovery in the popular media of so many interesting-looking cameras. I live with a girl who is a fashion-nut and we would frequently watch television shows & documentaries where I would see these glorious-looking pieces of equipment being negotiated by some clever lady or fellow (usually clad in black) hanging out in the shadows of magazine shoots. It was a little while later that I realized that many of them were shooting with digital backs...but not all of them...and in fact almost all of them (when I started looking into it) shoot digital as a 'back up' to ensure they have something to work with though they usually print from their colour reversal films.
And then I found this place
Nothing much to say about that - you all can look around at this community - it's stupendous!
In the end: I love the process of film...and I can't give it up now that I've started doing it for a living. It all seems like a dream come true at this point and I can't even imagine it coming to an end because of a lack of materials. If that ends up happening I say we all pitch in and bring film back to life from the ground up - I'll be glad to sweep the factory floors
Contributors, thanks to you all once again, and I hope I can keep the knowledge alive from this lonely outpost!
p.s. - Scott Sheppard: You can certainly count on me to keep buying film - I'm currently shooting about 3-4 rolls per week (and that's simply in portfolio-development, I have several jobs coming up where I plan to blow through plenty of my growing stockpile)