Fujifilm discontinue variant of Velvia

Sarcophilus Harrisii said:
In my not so humble opinion the real hypocrites are the people who whinge and moan about the demise of film, or a certain type of film, but don't actually use it. Are you one of them? How much 4x5 or 8x10 Velvia 50 or Velvia 100F have you used this year? If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. I don't shoot as much film as I would like, but I don't shoot digital, and use as much as I can afford (arguably, more).

It's easy to point the finger at Fuji but they are the ones who are still making transparency film. If you want to criticise one of the manufacturers you may like to start with Kodak, who have stopped making tranny altogether.

It's time for those who are as passionate and committed to using film as they say to put up or shut up. I am SO over these types of threads. Rather than whining about Fuji (who are still actually making reversal) why don't you shut the **** up and shoot some tranny instead? THAT would be doing something to help.
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Thanks for your not so vaguely infantile, patronising and to be quite frank, insulting response.

I'll attempt to offer reasonable responses to the "issues" you have raised - however, my response will be proportionate and justifiable.

Lets get one thing clear. I shoot film. So thats that assumption circumvented.

With regard to the format of film I have used, I see this as, frankly, irrelevant. I, for one, do not have the gift of foresight, so can not tell what anyone else would be doing in the future, but riddle me this: Would I be in the best position to hazard a guess what I may chose as a format in my future? Yeah, I'm sure there's a saying about assumptions...

Are you suggesting that just because you haven't indulged in something yet, you should not be allowed an opinion on it? Perhaps my opinion would hold more weight if I shot transparency more? Yeah, I'll give you that - but the bigger picture is what effect this will have on film as a medium as a whole. From tiny acorns...

You're right. I could have brought up Kodak and their conspicuous absence of transparency films, but maybe I already have? And if I did do here and now, perhaps some faceless Dudley Doright on the interweb would would just simply post a impotent diatribe saying that the issue with Fujifilm was now more relevant?

You state that you are done with posts like this, yet you quite obviously are not, or else you would not have engaged in it. And, not only having done that, you have done so in a way that to any reasonable person comes across as just being nasty. You could have asked the same questions in a reasonable manner and I would have answered them all, graciously, but instead you wanted to be one of those internet hardmen. For shame. Does not paint you in a very good light, really.

And, with regard to your last "input" about me shutting the **** up and shooting some tranny (I'm not overly interested in cross dressers as a subject by the way, but each to their own), I'll do you a deal. I'll shoot some transparency, because I'm open to reasonable criticism and I'm all adult like that, but I won't be shutting the **** up any time soon, because some random, faceless member on a forum says so via an ill thought out e-rant that they would never likely do in the same "format" if such a discussion was face to face ;)

Oh yes, mustn't forget to end my post with a polite..

"Regards"
 
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Sarcophilus Harrisii said:
Hang on, you've already answered my question. Yeah, I thought so. Enough said...
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Oh yeah, with regard to that pleasantry, you obviously didn't read my post correctly. I hardly shoot colour does not equate to I do not shoot colour, just like I'm sure that your mention of not shooting as much film as you'd like doesn't equate to hardly shooting any.

Have I shot with Velvia? Yep. Velvia 50 was nice to use abroad, as I said in the very same post you "addressed".

Assumptions and speed reading do not a good reply make....
 
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