On 25/9/03 10:44 pm, "whunter" <whunterjr@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> IMO: film will be here for our lifetimes and in specialized forms for
> generations to come.
My recent renewal of interest in the whole art of photography (during which
I have bored the list with lists of my new acquisitions) led me the other
weekend to my local camera shop in search of some darkroom chemicals. Now
this is a 'proper' camera shop, a one-off with a selection of second hand
35mm stuff (a few years ago it was in the window, now it has been displaced
by digital stuff - largely Olympus - to a dusty cabinet at the back of the
shop).
And which stopped selling photographic chemical THREE YEARS ago...
Leaves me unsure whether the times are a changin' or whether they already
have. It makes me a little sad to think that future generations might miss
out on the sheer wonderment of undoing a developing spool with a dry mouth
and beating heart to be greeting by a set of perfectly developed negatives.
Which you did yourself. There's a tactility to that which no digital camera
can ever replace.
Though I'll confess that the enlarger has been replaced by a Mac, Photoshop
and a Dimage II...
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