seeing as you are almost quoting my thread...
i don't see myself as negative but i do think about stuff at times...like what if kinds of stuff...
i'll keep it to myself if you like.
joe
No, don't keep it to yourself. I find the criticism of the question more negative than the question itself. Those of us who have used film for 40 or 50 years and see the (remote I think) possibility of its coming to its historical end quite naturally have questions about that. When the youngsters have most of a life behind them they'll understand; in the meantime it's pretty useless to try to explain.
I am not negative at all about the possibility of film's demise, and for two reasons: It may die as a major commercial player, but it will nonetheless continue, with fewer and fewer options requiring more and more craft, though probably more money too. There are still people making platinum palladium prints, enough that there are kits to buy to experiment with the process. There are recipes available for albumen prints. So I suspect that one way or another, silver will be with us for a while.
The second reason is that the new technologies are good. I shoot a lot of digital, even, recently digital black and white.
But the other thing about the naked ape is that his life ends tragically, with everything he knows and loves dying; I say nothing about his own death, which is almost incidental when the world he has know has perished.
So... what if humans lived forever....?? Would we care more or less about the passing of the things we know? (By the way, I like silver because I'm a good darkroom technician and it's not a skill I am willing to leave unused. I spent a lot of years learning it.)
