I cropped a medium format negative. Don't punish me, film gods! Ilford HP5+ shot through a Mamiya C330.
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I cropped a medium format negative. Don't punish me, film gods! Ilford HP5+ shot through a Mamiya C330.
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 Yo. So I was thinking. If you shoot on a film camera, and upload it to the computer. That makes it digital. Your media is digital film. Film is dead. Long live film.
  • 5 0
 Pretty much.

The film vs digital stuff is boring. Film is a process and that's why I like it.

The difference, at least the most important difference, between film photography and digital photography is that digital photography simplified the process of getting your images and editing your images. For film you obviously have to develop it to see what you got and to edit them for printing (which is what image processing software on the digital side of things was made to do but now nearly everything is web-based so lol) you need a dark room set up. If you're shooting C-41 (color; black and white C-41 films are actually color films that are designed to just give black) or E-6 (slide) film the developing and editing process is a lot more intense than standard black and white film. Now with digital all of that is incredibly simplified. You don't have to mix chemicals, take temperatures, wait around, chill in the darkness, etc etc just to see if you got your exposure right or if you were focusing where you want. With digital it's just looking down at a screen to see if everything is chill and then going off of that.

Film isn't dead because great technology like scanners exist. So, just like you said, I can digitize my film and work from there. I don't need to invest some serious cash into a darkroom setup cause all I need is a computer, a scanner and some software. Film will be dead though when people stop producing it.

Film is forever. Or at least a for a long time if you store it correctly. Those pieces of plastic with silver halide salts on them aren't gonna disappear forever when the Chinese set off an EMP near us and all our electronics go sizzlesizzle.

When that happens I'll be around shooting the disaster on my completely mechanical, no-batteries-needed camera. Woo!

TL;DR: Film rules.
  • 2 0
 Didn't mean to get into anything in depth, but damn I'm glad you did. Said it better than I could. Film is an art, where as digital can be, but is a much more user friendly version. I didn't say it before, but I do absolutely love this shot.
  • 2 0
 not gunna lie the fact that this is film is just amazing
  • 1 0
 Thanks bud.
  • 1 0
 That jump looks amazing. Props for using film.
  • 1 0
 It was quite the booter. The whole line was pretty burly.

www.vitalmtb.com/videos/member/Video-ATs-Showdown-Finals,4379/sspomer,2
  • 1 0
 That video was cool. Double backflip was sick.







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