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frotzI enjoy taking and looking at photographs, both for documentary reasons and for their general aesthetic qualities ("art photography", more or less).
I also like film for some things, but I find the timeless debate (or is it just a wankfest?) about tradition vs. the artificial aesthetic of inconvenience, et cetera, somewhat tiresome, mostly because people seem to be so emotionally invested in one side or the other that they can't even start to discuss things rationally. (I can summarize the tradeoffs (as I see them!) in a comment if anyone's curious and not also already sick of the question.)
Arguwanking aside, and in a completely acknowledged bit of nostalgic wanking of my own (but also because everything was pretty and snow-covered and the light was really fantastic), I went out this afternoon and shot my last couple of rolls of Kodachrome.
Kodachrome is an amazing thing, really. It was the first really practical color reversal film, but in many ways has remained technically superior to its successors of the last 75 years. The role of film photography in the modern world is still shrinking rapidly, though, and there is only one place left in the world which develops it (the development process is horrid), and they're stopping as of Thursday.
It's also, by the way, the subject of a catchy Paul Simon song.
I also like film for some things, but I find the timeless debate (or is it just a wankfest?) about tradition vs. the artificial aesthetic of inconvenience, et cetera, somewhat tiresome, mostly because people seem to be so emotionally invested in one side or the other that they can't even start to discuss things rationally. (I can summarize the tradeoffs (as I see them!) in a comment if anyone's curious and not also already sick of the question.)
Arguwanking aside, and in a completely acknowledged bit of nostalgic wanking of my own (but also because everything was pretty and snow-covered and the light was really fantastic), I went out this afternoon and shot my last couple of rolls of Kodachrome.
Kodachrome is an amazing thing, really. It was the first really practical color reversal film, but in many ways has remained technically superior to its successors of the last 75 years. The role of film photography in the modern world is still shrinking rapidly, though, and there is only one place left in the world which develops it (the development process is horrid), and they're stopping as of Thursday.
It's also, by the way, the subject of a catchy Paul Simon song.