How quickly things are forgotten!

Okay, I have never left film and don't own a digital camera...I shoot B&W, develop film and prints...soooo am I a hip-dude or just a film user-loser guy...I'm confused...again...
 
Lots of older folks have difficulty with learning to use computers. I have first hand experience with this helping some older folks with their computer problems.
 
Damn .... now film is set to become popular ... will take over from digital ... and we'll all have to dust off our DSLRs to be different!
 
I really liked this part (and I quote...):

"Mr. Bangert didn’t see the results until he returned home to Switzerland, where a fine-art printer developed the film by hand. The images were made from digital files derived from scanning the negatives."

Now that sounds like pure magic - is that really possible??? What a brave new world...what glorious times we live in...😀
 
One of the better film vs digital threads I must agree. Tongue in cheek is much more compelling than fire and brimstone.
 
There's a saying in Norway, most frequently used in tabloid newspapers. "Mann's minne" loosely translates to "in the memory of man". Meaning a single lifetime, or in our/my lifetime, not the history of mankind. Whenever a phenomenon or other occurs, the papers firmly state that it hasn't happened in "manns minne". A few years ago a group of researchers tried to quantify the exact value of "manns minne" by going back in time each and every time the expression was used, and finding the previous occurences of such phenomena and measure the time lapsed in every case. Several hundred "manns minne" qoutes later the answer was on average 18 months. Which is down from nearly 10 years only 10 years previously.

Goes to show that our memory is not what it used to be. Soon wet plates will be invented as the new, better and must have technology.
 
An aside, a friend of mine (an academic) has a theory that forgetfulness is an important but hidden part of school teaching these days, because that's what the politicians and big business want...

He also thinks that reasoning has been phased out, for the same reasons.

Regards, David
 
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Hey, it's only the New York Times - you can't expect them to be precise with their language or thorough in their research.
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I'm sure you can tell the difference between a casual blog for the photo-interested, and the front page, right?
 
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I enjoyed reading the photographer's own comment

I enjoyed reading the photographer's own comment

regarding his photos and why he was in Afghanistan with a film camera. He responded to the nasty remarks left by some commenters with a grace and equanimity I don't think I could have mustered.

And, I like the portraits.
 
It is distinctly odd that some people in this forum (and others) are still having a film v digital debate. And I suppose it will bring forth the inevitable posts about how at last it is all about to turn - digital will be consigned to the dustbin of history, while film finally reclaims its rightful immortal place amongst "real" image makers - those who really know what they are doing.

Clearly film still has a niche and that's fine. Its just strange that we feel we have to comment on it.

But the "memory of a man" quote is true. One person's lifetime and all is forgotten.................thank God for the invention of printing.

Sometimes it is even faster than one lifetime - every 30 years or so there is a great big financial bubble as a new crop of financiers and politicians fail to learn the lessons that their forebears learned in the last great crash. Ho Hum.
 
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peterm1 said:
It is distinctly odd that some people in this forum (and others) are still having a film v digital debate. And I suppose it will bring forth the inevitable posts about how at last it is all about to turn - digital will be consigned to the dustbin of history, while film finally reclaims its rightful immortal place amongst "real" image makers - those who really know what they are doing.

Clearly film still has a niche and that's fine. Its just strange that we feel we have to comment on it.

But the "memory of a man" quote is true. One person's lifetime and all is forgotten.................thank God for the invention of printing.

Sometimes it is even faster than one lifetime - every 30 years or so there is a great big financial bubble as a new crop of financiers and politicians fail to learn the lessons that their forebears learned in the last great crash. Ho Hum.
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Blah blah blah. You're sidestepping the REAL debate: etched plate vs. stone lithography. 😉
 
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