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Interesting. Scarcity re-entering the equation + nostalgia
I have fantasies where sending letters becomes a thing again. We used to wait. Things took more time. There was joy in the waiting.
View quoted note →Plus all the best film equipment from 30 years ago is now insanely cheap on eBay lol
Ah, didn’t think about that… thrill of the hunt and swimming in nostalgia then!
Who develops it these days?
I send it off to a lab in L.A. by mail called the darkroom. Good lab.
You can also develop yourself at home but it’s kinda messy and I’m kinda lazy lol
We had kids to do that in high school. I'm not self developing. But I know what you mean about slowing down to contemplate the shot. It grounds you in the moment.
I second that
Ever think about getting into large format?
I do shoot some 120 from time to time
Same, love medium format. Shot a lot of it. Will get back there again some day.
Once knew a dude that made his own 16x20 camera and was doing these massive contact B&W prints. The detail was otherworldly.
I lowkey kinda want to get one on those old school giant monstrosities but I mainly shoot portraits and not landscape
A renaissance man you are. Would love to see some of your fav shots.
Exactly lol
Unfortunately I mainly shoot portraits of the kids. Which I can’t share for obvious reasons.
Wish I still had the black and white lab to develop 35mm
My Dad is a man's man but loved shooting time lapse photography and developing it in our basement
View quoted note →I love film! I recently put my Grandpa’s old vintage lenses and my 400D (very outdated now) with an adapter and the look of the low tech digital with vintage glass looks lovely. Much softer, you have to slow down and manually focus, take your time, it’s great!
I've heard the same from musicians, that there's something right about needing to record the full song in one take, that the older process calls them to higher excellence.
Suprising you can still get film
Limitation creates intention.
36 frames force presence, patience, and meaning.
That silver halide magic hits a part of the soul digital never will.
Kodak is still producing. Fuji is dead
It’s the smells. Digital photography doesn’t smell of anything.
It’s why a use a tripod for my landscape photography though. Apart from helping to get an accurate composition, it slows me right down so I can be present in the moment, out on the hill.
For price point film is way higher quality.
You'd go through a bunch of film before getting anywhere near the price of an equivalent digital camera.
Film doesn't have pixels, so it can be expended a lot more than digital images.
It's why all them movies from the 80s are being rereleased in 4k
Wanna get your mind blown, look up vintage high resolution photos.
Only those who grew up on film and had to wait to get it developed to see what you captured will understand. I carried the patience deep into the digital era because those early years were so impactful. I should have significantly more digital photos than I do.
Omg. You are taking me back to another world!
> I love only having 36 shots per roll and having to be patient and wait for the right moment.
You can do the same with digital if you know how and what to shoot. I often return home with 5-10 shots on my digital camera. Also, depends what you mean by “it’s so much better than digital photography”. If it’s something along the lines of “film makes me struggle more and keeps me conscious about each frame due to its constraints”, I can agree. If you mean “film is technically superior to digital”, I’d call BS.
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The story about the aerial photo of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake aftermath using kites is better than the one where Ben Franklin discovers electricity by flying a kite with a key tied to the bottom of string.
Money isn't the only value. Some would argue time is more valuable than money.
My grand daughter visited us over the holidays. I took a gazillion photos and videos until it hit me...jpegs are not scarce, but time spent with the ones you love is scarce.
If you limit yourself to 36 shots, you limit the time you spend with your technology and maximize the time you spend with your loved ones.
You spend time waiting for your kids (or grand kids) to laugh or smile to get the perfect shot, but that means you're focusing on the kids and not the screen.
Using a 35 mm camera isn't such a bad idea.
I can always make more money, but I can’t get back time.
100% more believable, as there’s photographic evidence!
You’re taking dick pics with that thing aren’t you you sick, beautiful bastard.
I SHOOT WITH MY RICOH GRIII AND LOVE THIS 28MM APSC CAMERA ITS THE BEST FOR STREET PHOTOGRAPHY AND EVEY DAY CARRY DUE TO ITS SIZE AND QUALITY.
USED TO SHOOT NIKON, CANON , SONY AND FUJIFILM...
IVE BEEN SHOOTING FOR A HOBBY FOR OVER 15 YEARS .
BEEN REALLY INTO HIGH CONTRAST BLACK AND WHITE LATELY ( ABOUT 1 YEAR NOW ) HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN SHOOTING FOR ?
I've always wanted to do film but dam it's too expensive 🫰🏻
Since 2007
Personally I don’t think of film as technically superior but emotionally superior. There’s something magic about film compared to modern mirrorless cameras or dslr’s though I own those as well and shoot with them regularly. I don’t agree that you should be judicious though with digital. I shoot burst mode when photographing people for instance because if I can I’d like more options in post.
One area where film does excel technically vs digital is in highlight roll off. There’s something I hate about exposing to keep the highlights from clipping and then bringing up the shadows in post. It doesn’t have that glow that film has.
NICE YEAH I STARTED A WEBSITE WITH MY WORK BUT NEVER FINISHED IT , MAYBE 2026 ...
Def love this.. been feeling the long pull back to the real things.. it’s a good vibe.
This is my favorite new Zealand photographer 35mm simpfluencer
Me and her have similar tastes. This is a canon eos 3
So what you’re telling me is… scarcity lowers time preference and increases quality and satisfaction?
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View quoted note →I love this post. I've purged many items from my life, but one thing I've struggled to part with is my old 35mm gear. I put it in storage after my first digital camera and never looked back, until now. I can;t wait to use it again. Thanks.
35mm is so great. I’ve made a commitment to myself to shoot at least a roll a month, but I’ve already shot 20 rolls lol 😂
