Over the top thoughts. (Maybe not?)

[j_fletcher]

Hi,

Has anyone here considered moving from film & digital to solely digital with an eye to the whole world economy failing in the coming months?!
I know this is a fairly foolish and slightly light (heavy?) hearted question, but it was a fleeting thought I had earlier today.
My basic consideration was that once one has a couple of digitals, some memory cards and a computer then (barring hardware failure), that's all one needs to take and store pictures; one does not need to rely on any future purchase of film or chemicals, just one initial outlay.

Extreme and maybe a little silly, I know.
But Just a thought...

 

[segedi]

I have a different take... if the world economies fail, good luck finding a power source to charge your batteries and run your computer. Solar maybe. There would be no Internet to share those photos on. But I think black and white film, self developed, in a manual camera are the way to go. Sure, you'd have smaller negatives, but something that would last, something that you could look at and when things settled and turned around, you could print or scan them in 🙂 Self processed E-6 at 6x7 size would be very nice too.

 

[seanathan]

These apocalyptic scenarios would probably provide for some good shots. You guys almost have me hoping this will happen! 😉

 

[sevo]

Hi,

Has anyone here considered moving from film & digital to solely digital with an eye to the whole world economy failing in the coming months?!

If the whole world economy fails, I'll probably move from bread to turnips or worse - photography as a whole won't be a big concern, and if any, I'll use up what film I have in my least electronic camera, my rechargeable driven cameras being dead for lack of a working wall socket.

That said, the world economy is extremely unlikely to fail - market liberalism may, but politely said, it has been as superfluous and ugly as Marxism, so who cares. If the US went the way of the USSR, the concern and impact elsewhere in the world would not be that much bigger, once the initial surprise had settled...

 

[back alley]

remember 'dark angel'?

that's how i see the world going eventually.

 

[willie_901]

Not in the least.

If "the whole world economy fails" the last thing you will be concerned with is photography. Staying alive and well will be your only priorities.

Moving to digital for ~95% of my work was based on two facts.

1. I would have no clients at all if I used film

2. The proliferation of Smart phones will mean I will loose access to local processing. I am not interested in processing film myself. So that pretty much kills film for me.

 

[daninjc]

when the world ends, I'll build a darkroom in my cave