[In response to John's comment on the last post, about being mocked for still wanting to work on film]
Here's a thing to try.
Go down to Jessops and - just for kicks - ask for some medium format polaroid film. I did this recently. It's the only time I've ever felt like I've just spoken a foreign language fluently.
Bring on the counter-revolution! These people that are reeling out of control with gadgets and wires and batteries and chargers and photoshop and flash cards and external hard drives, jpeg and RAW and white balance and more megapixels than you, if they ditch out on film they're missing something fundamental about being alive, which is this:
At our heart we are not square like the pixel, we're round, like those delicious little light sensitive grains.
Pixels serve their purpose, I know this as much as the next guy (I've made my living for years through being great in Photoshop etc. and make healthy work across both film and digi) but pixels are still square, with hard edges and sharp corners. This whole issue about film or digital gets very tedious. I like to think that those who matter will judge on the quality of image you make, not the configuration of kit you're packing.
{Today's soundtrack: Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel the Illinoise}
1 comment:
There are two sad things here:
First - that as fewer and fewer people use film, the price will go up and up, and act as its own impediment to people having a go.
Second - ever since you lost your lightbox, there have been no new pictures appearing on this blog. I think that's right (we will all share in your suffering!) but I look forward to seeing one of those first new images passing through the new viewfinder.
While on this topic, I recently spent some time looking at digitals through a video projector with someone who has always used 35mm slides. The pixel technology really comes through in that medium, and will not stand a chance of replacing slide for a very long time. But the price of slide processing is also going up all the time.
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