rhl-oregon
Cameras Guitars Wonders
One can, with the M-D lag between shooting/download, afford to be as abstract and snappy and hypothetical as one once was with film. Of course that applies only to me, unless any of you also find it is so, given how your shooting/developing habits have evolved.
When all I shot was film, I had periods where the shooting was more abstract and risky and What If, until it was developed and I saw how few I got right. Which is okay, unless you believe that you ought to nail 20 out of 24 on every roll. Then, in the fullblown digital era, I could expose and trash one after another until I experienced a surfeit, an imagination bloated and jaded from digital-abstract-snap/trash-it-and-move-on overload.
That time is past too. Now the M-D feels like the device where I record thoughtful secrets I will share with myself later, when I no longer need them to be what I thought I wanted to see or show—and so far they give me greater joy and discovery and developmental possibility that way. That may qualify as a form of priceless value at this point in my life.
When all I shot was film, I had periods where the shooting was more abstract and risky and What If, until it was developed and I saw how few I got right. Which is okay, unless you believe that you ought to nail 20 out of 24 on every roll. Then, in the fullblown digital era, I could expose and trash one after another until I experienced a surfeit, an imagination bloated and jaded from digital-abstract-snap/trash-it-and-move-on overload.
That time is past too. Now the M-D feels like the device where I record thoughtful secrets I will share with myself later, when I no longer need them to be what I thought I wanted to see or show—and so far they give me greater joy and discovery and developmental possibility that way. That may qualify as a form of priceless value at this point in my life.
