Is Film Dead...

[Paul Goutiere]

When I was a kid I had the good fortune to shoot a Speed Graphic (4x5) for a small town daily newspaper. That was 1964.
Later I progressed to a Mamiya 220 for a small weekly newspaper.
The guys who taught me would have probably jumped at the chance to use digital cameras I'm sure. They weren't romantics like me, these guys had a job to do.
I am a romantic, however. And I like the process of photography at least as much as the results. I am uncomfortable with the vast menus of digital cameras and autofocus really pisses me off. (I know where I want to focus, I don't need some camera to tell me.) And autoexposure! Good grief, most of us on this site don't even need light meters.
Film cameras can be very, very simple. I can understand film, shutters, apertures, light, shadow, depth of field and on and on. Like many of us I can work the technology of both systems but I prefer the more reliable, the more flexible, the more pristine...Film.
Film will certainly become a symbol in a metaphor one day, but considering how many film cameras are out there someone will continue to make it.

 

[Philippe-Georges]

Just have a look, you do not have to reply (but if you can not resist the urge...) : Dead Link Removed

Philippe

 

[Daniel_OB]

... death. Stupid...

Mark
Yes it is. Now send me your cameras because you obviously do not want them anymore since film is dead.

How about me. Do not take all for yourself.

www.Leica-R.com

 

[Joe Lipka]

When this happens, will someone let me know? I would like to go to the wake. Whiskey, singing, whiskey, sad stories, whiskey, fun memories and more whiskey.

 

[Curt]

Film is dead until the photographer puts life in it.

 

[freygr]

Film for Large Format cameras is not going to die any time soon. It's almost impossible to get good deals on ebay for view cameras! As long as there is demand for film some one will make it. We alway can make wet plates if the EPA doesn't take the chemicals away!

 

[copake_ham]

Posit: Is Film Dead?

Answer 1: No; so this thread is irrelevant.

Answer 2: Yes; so this thread is irrelevant.

 

[MattKing]

Posit: Is Film Dead?

Answer 1: No; so this thread is irrelevant.

Answer 2: Yes; so this thread is irrelevant.

George:

As a lawyer, surely you must agree that the title to the thread/statute may, or may not have any relevance to the contents therein

Matt

 

[copake_ham]

George:

As a lawyer, surely you must agree that the title to the thread/statute may, or may not have any relevance to the contents therein

Matt

Oh you mean like in 1996 when our esteemed Congress down here passed the "Tax Simplification Act".