sepiareverb
genius and moron
Film sucks. I'm sick of the stuff. Give me a glass plate anyday. Dang flimsy plastic stuff isn't worth the minor amount of silver glued to it.
The key words here are SOMEDAY and PRACTICALLY.
Guess again Ray. Nobody would ever lose an SD card, or forget to grab one from the house fire, or dive into the flood? Argument rejected.
Red herring why? Because in the future something better will surely come along? Vermont Historic Preservation requires gelatin silver prints of any Historic registry building that gets altered. No digital prints allowed, no digital files, not even slides. They understand what archival means those historians do. Digital is still elusive, as no physical object exists.
I'll save you the trouble. I'm an idiot, a behind the times stick in the mud with my head up my butt. And I don't much care. 😀 I shoot film because I like the process. I like the rhythm of 36 exposures. I like the physical objects. I like the way my prints look. I like standing in the darkroom to make those prints not sitting at the computer to do it. I like using my hands to dodge and burn. I like the way a silver print takes toner. I like the limitations the chemicals bring, they force me to think and invent and experiment. Paint and brushes are dead, long live Paintshop Pro.
Film is a medium not a convenient way to make pictures.
Someday practically indestructible TeraByte SD cards which will retain images without power will exist
The key words here are SOMEDAY and PRACTICALLY.
Will some fail? Sure. But millions of photos and negatives each year are surely lost because of flood, fire, neglect or family members who throw them into the trash after the photographer dies.
Guess again Ray. Nobody would ever lose an SD card, or forget to grab one from the house fire, or dive into the flood? Argument rejected.
The argument for film's archival superiority is a red herring now. It will surely be even more so in the future.
Red herring why? Because in the future something better will surely come along? Vermont Historic Preservation requires gelatin silver prints of any Historic registry building that gets altered. No digital prints allowed, no digital files, not even slides. They understand what archival means those historians do. Digital is still elusive, as no physical object exists.
I'll save you the trouble. I'm an idiot, a behind the times stick in the mud with my head up my butt. And I don't much care. 😀 I shoot film because I like the process. I like the rhythm of 36 exposures. I like the physical objects. I like the way my prints look. I like standing in the darkroom to make those prints not sitting at the computer to do it. I like using my hands to dodge and burn. I like the way a silver print takes toner. I like the limitations the chemicals bring, they force me to think and invent and experiment. Paint and brushes are dead, long live Paintshop Pro.
Film is a medium not a convenient way to make pictures.
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