"Film: Not Dead Yet" A CNN Report (Video)

I may be paranoid, but I can see this thread developing :))) into a film vs digital argument. Let's not go there, okay. Again, live and let live. I celebrate film without denigrating digital (in public), and you can too. Think whatever you want, but post with consideration.
 
Last edited:
Full marks to the producer for not splicing in the sound of a motor-driven SLR every time one of the photographers tripped the shutter of their Mamiaflex/Rolleiflex/Leica.

Pity we won't ever see it on American cable, as nobody seems to carry CNN International, just the lame CNN domestic service.
 
FrankS said:
I may be paranoid, but I can see this thread developing :))) into a film vs digital argument. Let's not go there, okay. Again, live and let live. I celebrate film without denigrating digital (in public), and you can too. Think whatever you want, but post with consideration.
Click to expand...

Yea, I just posted because the video is wonderful, it really showcases the lovelyness of film, it's really enjoyable to watch and respectfully made, not to make film users look like the amish of the photography world :)
 
My guy at Costco said that the home office has decided not to replace any of their film developers or put no ones in. When its done its done. Will we be left with just the pro labs? If so then film will end up a rich man's game.
 
Cool video. Does anyone actually have an idea how the situation will look like in ten years though? Or even five?
 
kshapero said:
My guy at Costco said that the home office has decided not to replace any of their film developers or put no ones in. When its done its done. Will we be left with just the pro labs? If so then film will end up a rich man's game.
Click to expand...

Or, film will be for enthusiasts who develop it themselves.
 
I don't know if you are an elitist, but perhaps not knowledgeable of all Costco or Walmart operations, and that said, you are probably correct today in your opinion. (at least I agree now)

Not too long ago Walmart and Sam's club near me were the largest area film processors. They had the best machines, maintained directly by Fuji (I think he was talking of fuji not kodak) on a weekly basis, and had the best trained technicians. How do I know this, a professor and professional photographer who taught an adult education photography class told me. He knew the people from Fuji and met with him at the store when he had questions about their film and processing. He generally did use pro labs for his work, but often for his own stuff and when in a rush he would run over to Sam's and have his film run through their machine.

In such a short time I feel that things have changed and can't say for sure that it is the same way now, but at one time, this store was pretty good at what they did.
 
FrankS said:
Or, film will be for enthusiasts who develop it themselves.
Click to expand...

Well said Frank. & if one listens to the words of Mr Erwitt as well as the lab guy, sorry I didn't catch his name, thats the emphesis I got out of it. Not that it's a better medium but a different medium to achieve the same end results.
 
boffen said:
Cool video. Does anyone actually have an idea how the situation will look like in ten years though? Or even five?
Click to expand...

"It's hard to make predictions - especially about the future." (Attributed to many people, including Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr, Samuel Goldwyn, Robert Storm Petersen, and Mark Twain.)

I agree though, cool video.
 
gb hill said:
Well said Frank. & if one listens to the words of Mr Erwitt as well as the lab guy, sorry I didn't catch his name, thats the emphesis I got out of it. Not that it's a better medium but a different medium to achieve the same end results.
Click to expand...

I thought they more so implied that the different mediums produce different results to each other because of the longer and more involved process of film.
 
Thanks for the link! I saw a flash of someone I knew in the segment. In fact, about 3 weeks ago was the first time I'd seen K & M in Chinatown (the store they mentioned in the video) even though I'd been down that street many times.

It's been that kind of a day today. I dropped my C41 film off in Chinatown to develop. While waiting I went over to an antique/thrift store and got a bunch of film photography related stuff, then went back to pick up my prints. The woman there told me the "strange" trend these days (and i know it's more recent because when I first went to them I was one of their only film client left) where young boys (she calls them) "don't like digital, they want to shoot film!"

Then coming home to find your link to this report. Nice.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom