For you non digital types: what would you do if film went dead?

I'll open my fridge and start using the film I have stockpiled. At current rates that will take me about 10 years to use up. By then the digital system might be able to produce a decent B&W print without needing a masters degree in computing.
 
Is it fair to say that those who say they'd quit are more interested in the technical process of photography than making photos?
 
i'd get a nice-ish digital "rangefinder" type cam, maybe a canon g11 or its nikon counterpoint, or the x100 and keep on shooting. i have to rest a camera against my head.
i cannot draw, and scissors give me fits, so no collage, either. :)
 
Vics said:
Everyone in my family paints. I think I'd join that crowd and learn to draw. Seriously.
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Yep. Me, too. In fact I am probably going to take a drawing class in spring.

Brewery is a cool idea, too, but I'd go for a goat farm.
 
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I tell you what, hoiw about you tell us what you would do if digital went dead. That might give you a clue as to what film users would do.
 
tlitody said:
I tell you what, hoiw about you tell us what you would do if digital went dead. That might give you a clue as to what film users would do.
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I'd use whatever others were using to make photos...

However, this thread shows that some would quit simply because they hate digital. It's a bit silly.
 
kshapero said:
Obviously you would migrate 100% to digital or go live in a cave.
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Neither. If all film disappears, I'll make wet plates. My 4x5 would only need slight modification to use them.

There is also a group working on recreating dry plates as well.
 
I'd use keychain digital camera, just like Henry C.B. would do this days :) Oh well, they are superseded by cameraphones.
 
jsrockit said:
Is it fair to say that those who say they'd quit are more interested in the technical process of photography than making photos?
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I think it's fair.

Although I'd say that those who loves the process, will equally love the results also (as long as it's attained using the said process), but not necessarily true the other way.
 
I hope that once the day comes when there will be no film anymore the digital cameras will have a non-flat response to light (do not ask me how to achieve that) and will spare as the blown away highlights.

I have no idea what I will use then.

I hope this is not going to happen any soon. I expect the film (at least BW) to be with us for long years to come. In other words - on my 'I am so worried about' list (should I ever have one) film would be far from occupying top positions.
 
Plate cameras for me, wet or dry just so long as i can enjoy the whole process.

I can't draw or paint :(

Beer making sounds good too but i think I'll take up bee keeping
 
I'd move to a fountain pen forum and wait eagerly for the demise of ink!
 
At the moment I am set for the next 2 -3 years with about 2000-2300 rolls in stock. I could ration it and probably extend it to 4 years. By that time digital will have matured sufficiently to be interesting (it is now at the level of early flexible film - in historical terms, if we use Sassons first digital in 1975 as a yard stick).
It is not the equipment that is important - it is the end result. I still prefer film, but if push comes to shove - I go digital. But not until I used up all my film!
 
film production wont end, *ever* ! :)

as others commented, small makers like Adox can continue making short production runs, even when Kodak, Ilford and Fuji have to stop their bigger machines.

but if impossible happens, some then-available Nikon/Leica FF-body.
 
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