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The Death of Film


11 years 6 months ago #259259 by AmyatV

When Robert Burley attended the demolition of a Kodak factory in 2007, he watched people prepare to capture the building’s final moments using digital cameras and smartphones.

He was there with his 4-by-5-inch field camera, composing the scene from under a black cloth before exposing the sheet film. The antiquated process was slow and deliberate.

“I knew I was witnessing history,” Burley says. “These remarkable events were shocking, sad and ironic all at once.”

In a matter of seconds, the former Kodak factory was reduced to dust.

Since 2005, Burley has been documenting what he sees as the demise of analog photography in the transition to the digital age.


cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/05/the-death-of-film/

Do you all stil use film? Do you print your images at all or are you in a purely digital world?
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11 years 6 months ago #259273 by Shane H
Well said at the end of that “We know nothing is forever, and this is one of the principle reasons we make photographs.”

Someday people will be saying that about digital photography!
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11 years 6 months ago #259318 by icepics
About the time the article's being written the situation seems to be changing - film's not completely gone, and it's already coming back. It's more niche than mainstream but there are people newer to film along with people like me who have continued to use their film cameras.

No sooner did Polaroid stop making film than the Impossible Project start production of integral films in an existing factory in the Netherlands; unfortunately one that had made pack film was already torn down. Fuji I think will benefit from Kodak's and Polaroid's bankruptcies and financial troubles, as they'd apparently already been manufacturing and selling film for Polaroid cameras in Europe etc. and now can sell it in the US. Seems like there are smaller companies too stepping right into the void if Kodak continues to reduce or sells their film production.

Not only 35mm and 120 but now 110 film is back - my guess is that 126 can't be too far around the corner! If people who haven't ever used film only knew how nice it is sometimes to drop film off at a photo lab and go pick it up later and you're done! LOL - color film anyway, I enjoy doing B&W darkroom work - and I do my own (color) prints of my digital images, not film.
Sharon
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11 years 6 months ago #259369 by Photo Junky
:goodpost: right there with bell bottoms and collars up!
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11 years 6 months ago - 11 years 6 months ago #259389 by effron
There is now a nostalgia about film, however when I think of the all-nighters in the lab, the smelly chemicals, the costs, etc....I really don't miss it one bit. Digital rocks! :)
Why so serious?
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11 years 6 months ago #259396 by Henry Peach
I hope people will continue to be able to shoot film, but I haven't shot film in 5 or 6 years. When I did I made lots of small prints and a few big prints. Now I make lots of big prints. I love prints. I'm starting to love screen display as monitors get better, cheaper, bigger, flatter, etc... Paper prints are the main weakness when it comes to dynamic range (about 5 stops of full detail). Film and digital sensors are capable of more DR than a paper print can display (about 10 stops of full detail). I think it'll be great when I can display the full DR my camera is capable of.
mattneedham.zenfolio.com
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11 years 6 months ago #259448 by Soccer Mom
Film was a fun process that connects you with more of 'photography'. Just in a different way, I'm happy to hear that people still practice with film cameras.
Canon 7D, 18-55mm, 55-250mm, 70-200mm L f/2.8, 100mm and 17-55mm f/2.8
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11 years 5 months ago #259989 by studiotoffa
I used to shoot film, but these days it's all digital. I must say that for me personal, it easier with digital. No need to set of space to develope/use as a darkroom. But I must say that in the end of the day film or digital is all up what tool you chose to make your vision come alive. But film as mainstream commerical use I would say it's dead.
Please visit me at Studio Toffa Photography www.studio-toffa.com
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