When did you last promote film use?

[Cropline]

Sporadically but often.Multiple times per month might be my best answer.

Twice today.

 

[Simplicius]

about 30 seconds ago just before opening APUG pages and daily to anyone who will listen.

 

[Ektagraphic]

I have had a bit of a tought time getting people to use film. I have convinced someone who has gone through hell with digital (broken cameras, stolen cameras, and photos lost in cyberspave) to go back to film. Now they use tons of film.

 

[Phormula]

I don't need to promote. My slides, carefully selected and arranged for a slideshow to my friends, speak for themselves. The most common comment at the end is "now I undestand why you don't go digital" ;-)

 

[DBP]

Gave a Ricoh SLR to a 14 year old who was enjoying a little digicam. I'm sending her some BW400CN and some Kodachrome, too.

Also spent some time talking a colleague into taking out his F100 and shooting some Kodachrome of his 7 month old for posterity.

 

[Black Dog]

I was idly leafing through 'Stuff' magazine in WH Smiths yesterday only to discover that 'analogue is back' and that 'film is cool'.Funny, I thought it never went away....and it is isn't it?

 

[Sirius Glass]

Photographing while I was skiing and while I was in town in Fernie.

Steve

 

[Colin Corneau]

Fellow APUG'er "thebanana" and I are putting together a group exhibition at a great local gallery here, comprised of film photography.

Everything from pinhole work to 5x7 ziatypes and more will be featured. We also want to invite people to bring their old film cameras in for a consultation on the opening night, as well as have a few different cameras on display (I have a Korona View 8x10 as well as a gorgeous wetplate camera made by Ty Guillory that I want to feature...maybe my Widelux too, if I can bear to part with it a few weeks).

 

[Christopher Walrath]

Why, today, of course

Well a customer of mine's grandson came into the store today. Kind of a shy guy. My boss was talking to him and he mentioned that I was a photographer as well. Well, this got my attention. Randy stepped away to get the invoice and I asked what kind of camera he had? He said he had just gotten a D60.

I know. I know.

Still. I told him he was going to have fun with that. I also mentioned that I had been shooting film for twenty years now. He asked what I had. Ran through the list and said 'Hey, I have my newest camera right in the next room here. Hold on.'

I walk back out with my RB67. His eyes got big as baseballs and he almost choked. His exact response, word for word. "I have always heard about these bigger cameras. But I've never seen one." The Truth Is Out There.


And then I have become a victim of my own generosity. Yeah. AGAIN! My brother calls me up and says that there is a Hasselblad on ebay for $120.00. I personally know that it is days from ending. But I ask how long left. Well the PC went down and they're bringing it back up to find out. I thought they were telling me so I would know. Then Ron says that Lyn wants a medium format.

OH HELL!

You know that Zenza Bronica C I picked up for $5 on Saturday? The one that actually works like a gem. Well, as of tomorrow at lunch it will have a new owner.

She's estactic.

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

I use (transparency) film (Velvia, Provia) everyday in business and weekends in my own time. I have done so since ditching C41 more than 16 years ago. Some smarty digi-fans occasionally 'test the water' if I'm found on-loc., i.e. "oh, I didn't know film was still available for those cameras...", to which I whip out a 6x7 Cibachrome stat and, well, what do you know: "Oh gee, I wish I could get a print like that!". "Not from digi* son!" Isn't that promotion of film enough in itself?

 

[removed-user-1]

Tonight the ASU photography club is having a "bring your favorite camera" meeting, and I will be going with my RB67 (too bad the few prints I've made from it, I already sold). That's preaching to the choir, a bit, but still it definitely promotes film.

 

[Robert Liebermann]

Annoyingly, whenever I post to a photo forum, which isn't too often, I try to add a detail to indicate that I'm shooting film and usually mechanical cameras, not digicam. +- do the same when mentioning to real people about my photo activities ("I'm getting excited about my next 5 week bicycle trip to the UP; I have a bunch of different film selected that should be fit well with the season and place...")

 

[Java]

Last week

Another forum I am on has loads of people who shoot at a race track near where I live

Anyway I posted a few of my shots up on the board and got:

"Nice pictures but why have you converted them to black and white"

"Converted?? Nope I shot it all in black and white film"

To which I got a load of clapping icons and "we are not worthy icons" followed by "wow well done for still shooting film"

 

[Edimilson]

I have just set up a website dedicated to the promotion of film photography. Since I do write a lot besides showing my own photos, it's only in Portuguese (I live in Brazil). My intention is to share what I know about shooting and developing, as well as enlarging negatives. I also speak about cameras and equipment in general. The website is at Dead Link Removed.

 

[removed account4]

i donated a portrait sitting and
a few plak mounted prints to to a silent auction
that benefitted a local pre-school.

 

[Shangheye]

All the time...my kids (8 and 5 years old) shoot film, and love it....waiting for their prints adds to the excitement. Next....the magic of the darkroom

 

[Ektagraphic]

I have just joined a camera club and I hope to promote film

 

[DBP]

Helped a neighbor find a camera; he bought a Nikomat EL from KEH. Then took him to a camera show to get a flash and strap and gave him an old 200/4.

Also gave his wife, who's a social worker, a few SLRs to give to poor kids who need them for photo classes.

 

[markbarendt]

Showed my boy and his wife how I develop B&W film today.

 

[Vaughn]

At the University, I showed prints (silver gelatin, carbon, and platinum prints) and demonstrated making enlarged silver gelatin prints to a group of high school students were in a PhotoShop class. Some were quite excited about the whole process.

Vaughn

 

[Darkroom317]

I promoted film a couple of weeks ago at the Mid-American Photography Symposium by using 2 of my Canon AE-1s and leaving my experimentation camera (digital) in the car. It was sad though, for I was the only person using film at the symposium. Got a lot of comments and questions. Didn't get bashed for my use of film. Surprisingly many people didn't realize that most films are still made and processed including Kodachrome. I managed to set them straight.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

When did you last promote film use?

Every time I buy 8x10, 4x5, and 120 film.

 

[Hamster]

I taught someone to print today. Never fails to impress a first time printer when the image appears in the developer.

 

[Ira Rush]

A few days ago, my daughter’s boyfriend was admiring my “mini B&W gallery” I have on display in the living room.

After a rather long time of careful scrutiny, he shyly asked…. “These were all shot on film… right… not digital?

After I replied that he was correct, that it was indeed film, I asked, “What made you ask?”

He replied, “Well it is the definition, the tones, the clarity and the sharpness of the prints. They are just great. I never get this with my digital. Now I see why some people swear by film.”

He then went on to ask, even more shyly “ Do you have a spare film camera I could borrow, I’ll take real good care of it?”

I smiled from ear to ear as I went to retrieve my old Mamiya/Sekor 500 DTL!

(Now, you didn’t really think I was gonna hand him my Nikons or my Hassy did ya! Hey I like this guy, but I ain’t stupid! )

 

[Leighgion]

I don't so much promote film as wear as it a sigil of my personal powers, allowing what I do with it to be its own testament.

I'm not an exclusive film shooter, but lately I've done a lot of B&W film work. At one meeting of the local camera club, when I was showing photos I'd taken while on vacation, one lady (who hires herself out as an art/portrait photographer) asked me what conversion software I'd used to get my B&W. Me saying it was shot on film I'm sure didn't convince her to reconsider her medium, but I think it did more to argue for the choice than any amount of evangelizing could have.