Ah. So basically like the hobbyists here with interchangeable lens cameras instead of smartphones.
Its been suggested that the cost of film cameras now represents a correction to the very low prices in the digital boom in the early 2010s.
) is still pulling £300 in good condition
A little story. Back in the 60's, I owned McIntosh stereo equipment. One piece of equipment was a McIntosh MC240 that I bought for $271, ($2100 in today's dollars). 3 years later I traded it in toward a solid-state Mac 2505 and got a $200 trade-in value. Now that same model MC240 sells for around $3000-5000 used and restored which even when adjusted for inflation is a lot more than the price when new.
I can't say that I agree with that.
Oh, I understood what you posted -- which was "Film is dead", when a more fitting title would have been "Film is dead for Dimitri". (Unless you were going for maximum click-bait, in which case you should have titled this post "Ten reasons film is dead -- #4 will make you cringe!!")
See, now there would be a more appropriate (though potentially less attention-getting) title. Although given what you've told us, an even better title might be "As far as film is concerned, the idea of Dimitri as a serious photographer is dead."
Totally agree - I mostly shoot colour and the C41 and E6 processes are standardised, so there is zero advantage in developing it yourself
Wow.
You could always buy a warehouse and keep everything!! I could kick myself for not keeping that Mc240 but tube amps were fading like film today. Remember though that McIntosh, which is still in business today and sells the highest quality possible HiFi equipment and is built to the highest quality standards. It's the highest quality equipment that increases in value over time. It's the type of equipment that is appreciated by engineers and it's what they would build if the cost was no object.
I totally agree w you but by your logic, in the unlikely possibility that they ever no longer make film, you could always go even further back in time to wet plate, dry plate or daguerreotype photography.
Yep. The cheapest I can find in the US is $11-12 a roll for 35 or 120, more if you use panoramic (anything larger than 6x9 in MF). Panoramic and half-frame developing can be nearly twice the cost per roll, before shipping.
Fair enough... though from my own (probably somewhat limited) anecdotal evidence it seems to be the real DIY types who are driving the film thing...
No... I get that. Virtually all of the recently film stuff that I see on Flickr is B&W, but obviously there must be some folks who shoot color film as well! Having played around with processing and printing both color and B&W film, I can say that there's far less good reason to develop color film yourself. With B&W film processing gives one more of an opportunity to tweak the results a bit to taste, where doing that with color is more of a recipe for just getting things wrong and making it more work for yourself when yougo to print the stuff (or to scan the negs and process in a computer).
And of course the people who consider tell them to be an essential part of their art. I know a few such photographers who are genuine artists in this medium.
If you look at the Ilford film survey 2018 ( https://www.ilfordphoto.com/ilford-photo-global-film-users-survey-the-results-are-in/ ) you’ll see that “76% of responders have processed their own film” but, pointedly, Ilford say that was 76% of those who answered that question (1649 of 6800 who did the survey). So only 18% of those who completed the survey positively said they had developed their own film. I would suspect that people who have developed their own film are much more likely to say so than not, so I suspect the true figure of those developing their own film is closer to 20% than 80%.
I know this keeps cropping up but I don’t understand why people think this - very few people processed their own film in the 70s, 80s and 90s, why would it be different now ?
because I assumed most photographers using film today consider it as an art form. ..not just taking snap shots...there is digital for that.
The big growth area in film today is disposable and “simple use” cameras e,g.
