[alt-photo] film and unused posts
Diana Bloomfield
dhbloomfield at bellsouth.net
Wed Mar 24 03:58:01 GMT 2010
Hey Judy,
Thanks for the generosity on your unused posts. I see, though,
scrolling through my email here, that you've made a couple of more
posts since this one, so I hope that doesn't mean you're now taking
back what you just gave to me-- because, if not, then I'll just have
to point out that you may actually be reaching your quota right about
now . . . you know, just saying.
About film . . . I will say that I think it will continue to be made
(and easy enough to purchase)-- until they start making medium format
digital cameras that are affordable to the average consumer. They
could do that now, but they won't. So until that becomes a reality,
I'm guessing film for medium and large format cameras will be here for
a while. That's my thinking, and my last thought (and post) for the
day. :)
Diana
On Mar 23, 2010, at 11:15 PM, Judy Seigel wrote:
>
> I think the comment about "sustainable market" for film may miss the
> point. As long as the folks (note, please, polite term for relics,
> or fossils, or --- ----s) who learned photography with film and
> still use it, remain active, the "market" for film may well be
> "sustainable" in some form or other.
>
> But when the time comes (if not already here) that students learning
> photography learn digital -- and film is only a specialty or relic
> (maybe with a film-making "list" on line) as, odds are, it will
> be... there will be a dwindling unto collapse of that "market." It
> may not happen in our life times, and we can be thankful for that,
> but it will happen.
>
> Then, perhaps, folks will learn to coat some flexible material with
> a silver solution (as we learned to coat a sheet of paper with, for
> instance, gum bichromate solution) and make "alternate photographs"
> with old style "film," but..... where is the market for buggy whips
> nowadays (other than antique stores) ? Is there a factory still
> making them? (not to mention that roll cameras would also go out of
> production).
>
> And here I mostly guess, tho I daresay someone on this list will
> know more, if not all: It's my understanding that the making and
> use of film and analog photo products are environmentally grievous
> (for instance I remember list discussion of problems for folks with
> septic tanks in disposing of their solutions). Is it possible that
> digital photography will be considerably less troublesome ?
>
> Judy
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