raydm6
Yay! Cameras! 🙈🙉🙊┌( ಠ_ಠ)┘ [◉"]
I know silver gets a lot of the attention and prestige, but I think we owe a tip of the hat to gelatin as well.
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GMAP- Photographic gelatin
Gelatin is an essential component for analogue and digital photography, X-rays and inkjet applications
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Nitroplait
Well-known
Yeah, you can't be Vegan AND into film photography - Take that hipster! 
raydm6
Yay! Cameras! 🙈🙉🙊┌( ಠ_ಠ)┘ [◉"]
Yeah, you can't be Vegan AND into film photography - Take that hipster!
Lol, you know, the thought crossed the back of my mind - a PETA boycott of gelatin-based photography materials.
They did try…
https://www.peta.org/about-peta/faq/...ntain-gelatin/
On a side note, I always get a kick out of the “No animals were harmed during the making of this feature” at the end of the movie titles however contrasted with the violence and dangerous stunts performed against humans.
Freakscene
Obscure member
For movies shot on film I always thought “none harmed except the ones boiled down to make the gelatin emulsion!”
Erik van Straten
Veteran
I remember that there used to be film made from plastic, forgot however the name.
Freakscene
Obscure member
That was the base, not the emulsion. Ilford HP5 used to be available on a thin polyester terephthalate (PET) base so that a normal cartridge could hold enough film to take 72 24x36mm frames. Current Adox 135 films are on a thicker PET base.
Marty