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Bar/Bat Mitzvahs. Family shoots. Weddings. School Portraits. Junior Sports. Passports. IDs.
Shocking no?
Gen Alpha kids were born 2010-2024. What kind of gigs are you doing with 12 year olds?
With the $$prices of film - paper - chemicals going up non-stop, the "upward curve" in "interest in film photography" will level out, then drop.
Eat - or buy film....
Has any of that doubled in price over the last 10 years?
I'm not concerned about the rising price of film. I am, however, concerned about how expensive paper is.
Lift tickets, plane tickets, and one's monthly home internet bill (in the US) are all candidates for first-world-pursuits close to doubling in price over the last 10 years.
For many of the things I do or would like to do, my limited time or the cost of travel, either or both outweigh the cost of the gear or consumables.
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...I sill have quite a bit of film in cold storage.
I did not realize how expensive all that stuff had gotten...When will it end...
May 17, 2042. Any film you haven't put in cold storage by then will disappear from the market. Note the date. You heard it here first.
Sal
I've been shooting film since the middle 60's and will always be shooting film. "Dance with the one that brung ya". I've got a freezer full of outdated and current film and paper. Some that expired in the middle 60's that I still print on. I've got old film cameras from the 20's to the 1990's that I still use and a small but functional darkroom. I shoot digital but film is my passion.
May 17, 2042. Any film you haven't put in cold storage by then will disappear from the market. Note the date. You heard it here first.
God Knows what is coming.Sal
I've been shooting film since the middle 60's and will always be shooting film. "Dance with the one that brung ya". I've got a freezer full of outdated and current film and paper. Some that expired in the middle 60's that I still print on. I've got old film cameras from the 20's to the 1990's that I still use and a small but functional darkroom. I shoot digital but film is my passion.
God Knows what is coming.
Political polls, economic forecasts, what is "now" in fashion and art.............. the predictions are often wrong.
Just keep doing what it is you enjoy and adapt as needed.
How much should I alter my dev times to account for radioactive fallout?
How much should I alter my dev times to account for radioactive fallout?
Just keep doing what it is you enjoy and adapt as needed.
No adjustment needed. It won't matter anymore.How much should I alter my dev times to account for radioactive fallout?
How much should I alter my dev times to account for radioactive fallout?
How much should I alter my dev times to account for radioactive fallout?
I was talking with one of the school counsellors who puts kids into electives, and he said quite possibly I'll have a full load is photo next year. That's 7 photo classes. That was unheard of for the last 15 or so years. He also told me for the last few years they could have easily given me a full load, but it would take away kids from other electives. I say bugger that! If they can give the bloody chess teacher a full load of chess... Yes, it's a class here, can you believe it??... then they can give me all photo. It would be a great way to end my career! Kids love the darkroom!
The issue will be finding a teacher who can do darkroom photography. There is one young teacher on the sub list who could possibly do it. I worry because my friend and colleague who retired two years ago, a science teacher, who is all digital take over. He killed the darkroom there. Admin didn't care either... I'm lucky where I am. My principal sees the value of art for students.
And none of your former darkroom students are available to teach the class? You would think with the hordes of people you are describing, there would be one or two who might have made it through college by now and could teach.I was talking with one of the school counsellors who puts kids into electives, and he said quite possibly I'll have a full load is photo next year. That's 7 photo classes. That was unheard of for the last 15 or so years. He also told me for the last few years they could have easily given me a full load, but it would take away kids from other electives. I say bugger that! If they can give the bloody chess teacher a full load of chess... Yes, it's a class here, can you believe it??... then they can give me all photo. It would be a great way to end my career! Kids love the darkroom!
The issue will be finding a teacher who can do darkroom photography. There is one young teacher on the sub list who could possibly do it. I worry because my friend and colleague who retired two years ago, a science teacher, who is all digital take over. He killed the darkroom there. Admin didn't care either... I'm lucky where I am. My principal sees the value of art for students.
And none of your former darkroom students are available to teach the class? You would think with the hordes of people you are describing, there would be one or two who might have made it through college by now and could teach.
There are a couple of thousand sheets of 5x7 320TXP and a hundred sheets of 8x10 320TXP in our freezer compartment. When Fukushima melted down in 2011, Ron Mowery posted here about Kodak's experience with radioactive dust from bomb tests crossing the country to Rochester and spoiling a lot of film.How much should I alter my dev times to account for radioactive fallout?
Second, despite searching, I couldn't find a "tongue-in-cheek" emoticon.
Our regular gasoline around here is $2.40 CDN a litre, and projected to go up to $2.50 CDN a litre within the week.
"Refinery Capacity" on the west coast of the US and Canada is being blamed.
Type "wh" in the emoticon search box and you should see a whistling emoticon like this:
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