Yep. Like I said, you can't make a film shooting phone. Kids already have a digital camera in their phone. Want them to buy a camera? Make a modern point and shoot film camera. It'll be the accessory to have.
I don't think it will drive down the price of the old M6s. The new one is $5800 w/ tax in CA. Someone interested in that, but who may find the cost a bridge too far, could look at the old one - which for all intents and purposes looks and functions the same - and go for that.Leica's taking advantage of the trend by re-issuing its M6. Of course, that will drive down the used prices on their old cameras to a certain degree. But they don't get anything from that anyway.
Yes you can. And it is being done all the time now. I don't know if they still do it, but many directors would use GoPros all over the place for multiple angles in tight spaces and difficult locations. There's a big difference if a $3-400 GoPro camera gets destroyed vs a $75000 Arriflex and it doesn't put a cameraman at risk.
Yes you can. And it is being done all the time now. I don't know if they still do it, but many directors would use GoPros all over the place for multiple angles in tight spaces and difficult locations. There's a big difference if a $3-400 GoPro camera gets destroyed vs a $75000 Arriflex and it doesn't put a cameraman at risk.
You can't make a phone that shoots analog film.
Clarified.
That’s right but I sort of got halfway there, well, the latter half of the photo-making process. I turn the brightness on my phone up all the way, turn one of its photos to negative, and place the phone on the negative stage of my enlarger. The image is projected to the easel and I make a print like I would using a conventional negative.
Ingenious.
Thanks. Here are a few examples. These are scans of the prints. At 8x10 the pixels of the phone are evident. That doesn’t really show in these scans. They tend to be contrast, probably because they are color images on standard B&W paper, Ilford in this case.
I don't think it will drive down the price of the old M6s. The new one is $5800 w/ tax in CA. Someone interested in that, but who may find the cost a bridge too far, could look at the old one - which for all intents and purposes looks and functions the same - and go for that.
If anything it may spur renewed interest in old M6s! Look I can get an M6 for 1/2 the price of a new one!
Kodak had made high quality cameras at one point the owned and made Graphics and Graflexes but they lost a monopoly case circa 1920's (?) and had to divest making high quality cameras. They also made Retinas, but presently they have no high quality camera design and manufacturing capabilities. To establish those capabilities is too expensive to consider. You can wish all you want, but it is not going to happen, any more that I would like Hasselblad to get back to making Series V cameras, but as long as a Japanese company more interested in digital devices owns the company, that will not happen.
You can't make a phone that shoots analog film.
Actually, such a thing IS possible. But the size of the phone alone would make it unmarketable.
Yes, and if somebody actually thinks like a photographer, therefore loves big print (or living-room) images, they can invest in (or simply rent) a few full-frame-35mm Black Magic cameras with Zeiss or Canon lenses, splicing them for images waaaay beyond anything seen at Grand Central Station. They'd put less-than-35mm Arri dollars at risk
I recently watched Gymkhana on Amazon. It is racer/stunt driver Ken Block doing insane things. They use GoPros for so many shots because they have no qualms in the cameras getting destroyed, but in the mean time the footage captured is incredible.
Proof of Kodak's existence (which is Chinese rather than Rochesterian)
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Proof of Kodak's existence (which is Rochester, not China).
I do not get it. Where is this nonsense going? We know that Kodak makes film in Rochester. This topic has been discussed here time and time again.
I do not get it. Where is this nonsense going? We know that Kodak makes film in Rochester. This topic has been discussed here time and time again.
I do not get it. Where is this nonsense going? We know that Kodak makes film in Rochester. This topic has been discussed here time and time again.
I think some people want to remind us from time to time there's more than film-based photography and that when it comes to image-making, the tool is perhaps of secondary importance, and/or it's wise to put the desired end result higher on top of the list than the medium. Well, that would be my twist on it.
Not that I think such a reminder is necessarily in order. I don't have the impression most of us are so focused on film that we have forgotten the advantages of digital or the very commendable progress in inkjet printing.
This supposed resurgence in Film Photography is largely a passing fad. It will eventually start to round off, die down...
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