Compute-O-graphy

[Godfrey]

Yes, garbage-o-graphs.

1967 Lancia Fulvia Coupé - Mountain View 2024
iPhone 15 Pro, rendered in SnapSeed app. ​

That's made a very nice 13x19" print, framed on my wall in the office.
Show me something you've printed to the same size that does better on tonal qualities and detailing.

G
—
"It ain't the meat, it's the motion."

 

[Godfrey]

... I’m curious, what’s your opinion on film photography in 2025?

I do a lot of it.

Woman Having Breakfast - Mountain View 2025
Kodak Retina IIIc + Xenon 50mm f/2
Ferrania P30 : HC-110, 1:99 @ 70°F @ 16min
​

Any other questions?

G

 

[Darthfeeble]

Some folks just need to argue.........

 

[Ororaro]

Yes, garbage-o-graphs.

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1967 Lancia Fulvia Coupé - Mountain View 2024
iPhone 15 Pro, rendered in SnapSeed app. ​

That's made a very nice 13x19" print, framed on my wall in the office.
Show me something you've printed to the same size that does better on tonal qualities and detailing.

G
—
"It ain't the meat, it's the motion."

What? 😂

 

[JeffS7444]

I never met a pixel I didn't like 😛

 

[former member]

I never met a pixel I didn't like 😛

I have.

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA149048.pdf

 

[Retro-Grouch]

I have.

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA149048.pdf

But a glitch on your film just emphasizes its "artisanal" and "organic' nature. See how much better film is? 😉

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Nah! Not me.
Without a film camera, I don’t shoot. I’m hardwired like that. Trip to anywhere in the world with a digital camera? No thanks, I won’t shoot.

And it’s not like I *have* to shoot. It’s okay to not take pictures.

Sorry, remind me what exactly happens after exposed film is taken out from your camera? Please.

 

[Retro-Grouch]

Sorry, remind me what exactly happens after exposed film is taken out from your camera? Please.

Jeez, have you been away from film that long? It gets processed! Remember? And not everyone digitizes their film. Yes, PUL-EEEZE!!!

 

[Godfrey]

... Processing machines and printers at photo labs have computers controlling them too. ...
It's so hard to remain pure in this technological age! 😉

G

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Jeez, have you been away from film that long? It gets processed! Remember? And not everyone digitizes their film. Yes, PUL-EEEZE!!!

I want to know what exactly happened with films exposed by OP. In details.
"Processed" is non-sofitiend. How, by whom?
What is happened after it is processed?
"Not everyone" is not relevant answer to my question.
I have asked what is happened with film from OP.

Clear now?

 

[Godfrey]

This photo made publication in the American Lancia Club's 2025 calendar!

Lancia Fulvia Coupé 1967 - Santa Clara 2024
iPhone 15 Pro - ISO 20 @ f/2.8 @ 1/120 @ 9mm

Starting and running La Signora Fulvia through the gears video:



... using SnapSeed and Reel Director apps​

G

 

[Ororaro]

This photo made publication in the American Lancia Club's 2025 calendar!

Lancia Fulvia Coupé 1967 - Santa Clara 2024
iPhone 15 Pro - ISO 20 @ f/2.8 @ 1/120 @ 9mm

Starting and running La Signora Fulvia through the gears video:



... using SnapSeed and Reel Director apps​

G

What I don’t get is why you present the iphone as being the epitome of high quality prints?

 

[Ororaro]

I want to know what exactly happened with films exposed by OP. In details.
"Processed" is non-sofitiend. How, by whom?
What is happened after it is processed?
"Not everyone" is not relevant answer to my question.
I have asked what is happened with film from OP.

Clear now?

This particular dedicated fridge, among two more freezers, contains at least 4650 sheets of photographic paper.

Oh, I have my moments where I feel like a total idiot for liking this stuff too much. But somehow I never reached the absurdly absurd level of summer 2003 when I spent so much time chimping that when I got home after a 2 month vacation I threw away my cf cards without even downloading them.
The digifart was insane.

 

[former member]

About 10 years ago I visited another R&D lab- one of the Scientists a bit older than me had a stock of Polaroid Film for his O-Scope cameras. pack film, 8x10, type 105. I suspect he retired when he ran out of Polaroid. I kept a fridge just for Polaroid film for my O-Scope camera, but a small one. Just 3x4 pack film, after using up all the 35mm Polaroid Instant film in the 90s. Great way to capture Digital Output, display on a high-res monitor and take a picture of it with a Nikon F3HP loaded with instant film. This was before the Tektronix Dye-Sub printers came out.

 

[Dogman]

Isn't this discussion like Dylan's "Louise holds a handful of rain, tempting you to defy it"?

 

[hap]

About 10 years ago I visited another R&D lab- one of the Scientists a bit older than me had a stock of Polaroid Film for his O-Scope cameras. pack film, 8x10, type 105. I suspect he retired when he ran out of Polaroid. I kept a fridge just for Polaroid film for my O-Scope camera, but a small one. Just 3x4 pack film, after using up all the 35mm Polaroid Instant film in the 90s. Great way to capture Digital Output, display on a high-res monitor and take a picture of it with a Nikon F3HP loaded with instant film. This was before the Tektronix Dye-Sub printers came out.

I have a never opened box of Polaroid 8x10 105 in the fridge. I stopped Polaroids transfer to art paper.

 

[Godfrey]

What I don’t get is why you present the iphone as being the epitome of high quality prints?

I don't.

I'm just showing you that calling things names "because you don't like them* has nothing to do with the reality of what they are capable of, and that there is tremendous capability and quality even in these "garbage-o-graph" producing devices, whether you like them or not.

Chimping yourself to distraction with a digital camera is a personal problem, and has nothing to do with the machinery.

G

 

[Ororaro]

I don't.

I'm just showing you that calling things names "because you don't like them* has nothing to do with the reality of what they are capable of, and that there is tremendous capability and quality even in these "garbage-o-graph" producing devices, whether you like them or not.

Chimping yourself to distraction with a digital camera is a personal problem, and has nothing to do with the machinery.

G

My iphone is filled with garbage.
This is the most accurate description I can give 💁🏼‍♂️

Screenshots, snaps, snipets, photos of a car just like yours… doors, windows, cats… it’s all cute but this is not art.

Es no arte

 

[Godfrey]

My iphone is filled with garbage.
This is the most accurate description I can give 💁🏼‍♂️

Screenshots, snaps, snipets, photos of a car just like yours… doors, windows, cats… it’s all cute but this is not art.

Es no arte

That, again, shows your personal issues, not the limitations of the iPhone camera.

G