They say film is dead

Mainecoonmaniac · Feb 23, 2015

But we still shoot film. Long live analog photography!

http://hyperallergic.com/184823/everything-is-dead-long-live-everything/

summicron1 · Feb 23, 2015

"They" are fools.

480sparky · Feb 23, 2015

Who is 'they'?

Mainecoonmaniac · Feb 23, 2015

They're not hard to find

480sparky said:
Who is 'they'?

I think "they" are the majority. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Ken Nadvornick · Feb 23, 2015

It can't be dead.

I have several cameras currently loaded with it, and none of them smell...

Ken

Sirius Glass · Feb 23, 2015

"They" are the blindly following herd that leads the lemmings off the cliffs of life. I have never paid attention to they.

480sparky · Feb 23, 2015

Sirius Glass said:
".......... I have never paid attention to they.

That's what they all say!

Sirius Glass · Feb 23, 2015

Sirius Glass said:
... I have never paid attention to they.

480sparky said:

That's what they all say!

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The difference is that I mean it.

Mainecoonmaniac · Feb 23, 2015

Analog photographers will have the last laugh. We can still print 100 year old glass plates today. But this can be the digital legacy.
http://petapixel.com/2015/02/17/pri...-the-digital-dark-age-internet-pioneer-warns/

Theo Sulphate · Feb 23, 2015

There will always be film because enough people realize film is wonderful.

At numerous restaurants, coffee shops, and stores in my area there are large prints on the wall - obviously made from photos about 100 or more years old. Taken with possibly an 8x10 camera, the detail and quality really stand out. People who look at these photos realize it isn't digital, nothing they've ever seen matches it, and perhaps are very impressed with what they see and may be tempted to get into film photography.

ParkerSmithPhoto · Feb 23, 2015

Mainecoonmaniac said:
Analog photographers will have the last laugh. We can still print 100 year old glass plates today. But this can be the digital legacy.
http://petapixel.com/2015/02/17/pri...-the-digital-dark-age-internet-pioneer-warns/

I had a client in my studio who lost four years worth of family photos in a hard drive crash. Not backed up.

Another family I know, friend of a friend, had a daughter with cancer. After she died, someone broke into their home and stole their computers, which contained all of their family photos.

I personally have about 20,000 digital images of my family that have not yet been printed. It's so much I don't even know where to begin.

snapguy · Feb 23, 2015

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Digital media, hardware, software are ephemeral. Frankly, nobody really knows if film will endure or if tailfins will make a comeback on cars. You don't have to do oil painting to do "art," there are many other ways. For instance, silkscreens, wood cuts, pottery -- on and on. I think it's pretty sure that film will be its own subset of the arts and maybe it is better that way. Let the machinegunners and the pretty sunset snappers have their digital-gidgetal boxes and have them leave us alone. And let us not forget the Selfish snappers. I am putting together a kit consisting of a F70 film camera, an 80-200 f2.8 AF zoom Nikkor, a 20mm f2.8 AF Nikkor and a 50mm f 1.4 Nikkor. I won't have to take a back seat to any snapper with this kit. I also have lenses from 18mm to 500 to go with it. And a Sigma Macro lens and maybe a dozen other lens that fit the Nikon. And a brand new (to me) 50-year-old Rolleiflex. Who needs electronic media?

David Brown · Feb 23, 2015

Mainecoonmaniac said:
Correct me if I'm wrong.

The cartoon you link to in the OP doesn't even mention film or photography. This thread is a troll.

Andrew O'Neill · Feb 23, 2015

If anything is dead, I am, from lugging my 8x10 and gear, up and down the Fraser canyon yesterday!

RalphLambrecht · Feb 23, 2015

Mainecoonmaniac said:
I think "they" are the majority. Correct me if I'm wrong.

No, Ithink you are right but many don't want to face reality.film is all but dead but that doesn't mean we can't love and use it. in fact We should do more of that to keep it alive.

Sirius Glass · Feb 23, 2015

My parents always talked about they and them, worried about what they and them would say and think.

ambaker · Feb 23, 2015

Who are, "they"?

They are them, who are not us...

-They can have my Hasselblad, when they pry it out of my cold, dead, hands... I'll sell my gun first.

480sparky · Feb 23, 2015

That which was never alive cannot be dead.

Arklatexian · Feb 24, 2015

Sirius Glass said:
"They" are the blindly following herd that leads the lemmings off the cliffs of life. I have never paid attention to they.

I have always thought that "they" could never lead the lemmings off the cliffs of life. The proof? After this season's lemmings are all dead,(Well maybe not really all, as at least one female and one male will be needed for next seasons' lemmings), "They" (not the lemmings) are still alive. "They" push the lemmings off the cliffs, rather than lead. By the way, "they" sometimes make disparaging remarks about Hasselblads and Leicas. As you said, I too never pay attention to "they".....Regards!

IloveTLRs · Feb 24, 2015

Ken Nadvornick said:
It can't be dead.

I have several cameras currently loaded with it, and none of them smell...

Ken

My cameras smell .. of oil, grease and leather. It's part of the whole sensory experience. Like a new car smell, but it doesn't go away

Ken Nadvornick · Feb 24, 2015

IloveTLRs said:
My cameras smell .. of oil, grease and leather. It's part of the whole sensory experience. Like a new car smell, but it doesn't go away

Just so long as they don't smell like that thing that died inside the wall by the stairs three weeks ago.

Ken

Mainecoonmaniac · Feb 24, 2015

I agree with you

RalphLambrecht said:
No, Ithink you are right but many don't want to face reality.film is all but dead but that doesn't mean we can't love and use it. in fact We should do more of that to keep it alive.

In a digital age, I think film is saved for "the good images". When I shoot film, I shoot with more thought.

blansky · Feb 24, 2015

I don't know if "they" say film is dead or not but almost nobody cares either way.

The few people that use film have a need to form this tribe, "us against the world".

If it makes you happy, that's fine.

But 99% of the population don't think about film or it's demise one way or the other.

They use photography to get snapshots the same way they have since the 40s. They care little of how it's achieved.

As for if people are archiving their snapshots, the answer is probably no. The same way they didn't archive their negs.

Millions of negs and prints hit the garbage can when people die and others are clearing out the house.

One day we'll see a new story of how some old guy died and in his basement were dozens of hard drives that hold thousands of his old pictures.

And there will be much rejoicing. Because the world has moved on from photography all together.

We now use thought collection and that's how shareable images are made and distributed.

Mainecoonmaniac · Feb 24, 2015

You're probably right Blasky. But only time will tell if an image is worth saving or not. But if there's no material trace of an image, there's no way to access it's value. There are tons of paper documents that are slowly disappearing. It's really up to art historians and other academics to sift through the pile. The digital sifting will be nearly impossible. Take a look at this.

http://hyperallergic.com/183266/four-million-images-from-the-worlds-endangered-archives/

DREW WILEY · Feb 24, 2015

My family had attic stuff going back hundreds of years. You could sift through it, evaluate the condition, gain interest with your own eyes.
You could physically see your ancestors lined up in a tintype in front of some little wild west schoolhouse under construction. I've got little
albumen prints, cyanotypes, ambrotypes, you name it - my own past, so to speak.... women in hoop skirts with staves climbing a glacier,
oxen pulling a log as a snowplow during the birth of some western town, Indians standing in front of bark huts at what would one day become my own ranch, then the farmers who strung the first fences over a hundred years ago. Tactile memories. About all discs will be useful for is skeet shooting. They all look the same.

They say film is dead

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