trogdon wrote: I did end up shooting film, as many young photographers that grew up in a digital age seem to be doing these days. Even ilford has reported they are selling more film now than they were a few years ago, there is a bit of a resurgence.
Yes, I'm told by a local dealer here that it's happening and it's the younger people driving it.
I see a lot of young photographers getting caught up in film because it offers beautiful results with fantastic colors, but it really isn't future proof. Places to develop film will eventually stop, and those heavily vested in film these days are going to find themselves having to cope with a digital world at some point.
I don't think they'll have much problem going back, since they were shooting with their phones before they got their film cameras. The more dofficult transition would be if they ever wanted to digitize their transparencies or negatives—scanning is a pain, and the equipment is getting rarer. If they're producing prints they're more likely to be thinking in terms of scanning the print on a flatbed. Even more likely, the limited reproducability is one of the things that attracted them to film to start with, and their idea is that the prints they made are the prints that exist and no more (in contrast to the disposable nature of all the images they produce and consume on social media).
Dec 23, 2016 at 12:45 AM
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