Film Photography is WRONG!

A rant about influencers and film photography.

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[RomanMilovanov]

The Smena-6 was a Soviet-made camera that was produced between 1961 and 1969 by the LOMO company (Leningrad Optical and Mechanical Association). It was a popular model that was mass-produced in large numbers, with a total of 1.99 million units made. The body was made of bakelite, and it had a removable back plate.

[mhaustria]

It all depends on what you work on. Analog photography (wet plate) is a huge part of my business since 9 years. Recently I had a client that wanted their wedding shot on film with no digital pictures at all. I normally don’t do weddings anymore, but this was very refreshing. On the other hand you need to plan ahead lots more. Find a color film for artificial light and one for outside. Maybe one for shooting in low light as well. And everything should fit together at the end. (I went for Kodak Vision - no not cinestill) Shooting digital would have been much easier, but at the end I shot 10 times less images and everyone was happy.

At the end the result counts and not the process you use. I think Peter and others jump on the film train because they enjoy it and because they were bored from digital. For sure it’s about views as well and because lots of people think that analog is art. And I agree with that. But sometimes it’s just the result of not knowing the process and making mistakes that are called art afterwards.

[CatherineLeonard-xxbl]

I think you hit it exactly, it’s about business vs art, film (for the most part) would be completely unsuitable for event photography for a business, but there is a wide world of people taking pictures that are not doing it for pay. Ultimately it’s just a different art form that produces different results, just as people continued to paint on canvas even after photography was invented, just like people will continue to do photography even though you can generate images from text on a computer, so too will people do film even though digital is “better”

[ravenstone]

There's definitely a "Film Revival" happening with a lot of casual and hobbyist photographers because you don't have to drop $2k+ on expensive equipment and you can find these cameras for less than $300 at estate sales and thrift stores. (I just bought one for $40! But I still shoot primarily on my R10).

I will say that shooting analog is so much fun, and it really forced me to learn more about what photography is and how its developed over the years. I find that film is sentimental and intimate in a way - like that film was there in that moment, and I can take that and see into that past memory any time I want. Its a physical thing.

BUT - I'm poor and can't afford all that film, so I still shoot digital :P

[jgoodell]

How does technology effect art? How did the development of acrylic paint effect painting? What about painters who still use oil paints? For commercial work, content like advertising and journalism, I agree a digital workflow is required. But commercial work has a purpose, a purpose other than creating for the love of creating, and the essence of what art is. I'm not saying that commercial content cannot be art, but that is not its primary purpose. Don't confuse aesthetics and art. I would not impeach an artist's choice of medium, as long as they were truly choosing that medium because it enriches their experience as a creator. After returning to film photography, I prefer working with the limitations of film. Having the limitation of 12 to 36 frames of a fixed format and ISO will makes me work around problems. I also like the process of developing film, the editing of the images (a contact sheet and a grease pencil), and then the final processing of the selected image as either a scan or print from the negative. The process will often take months, the longer I can go and the more I can forget about actually taking the photo, I find the more I can be objective about the artistic merit of the image.

[gregmarcus]

Don't compare. Digital is good and all the benefits. Film photography is the same game and you are just playing in HARD MODE.