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LaTigresse -> End of an era... (2/9/2011 8:42:06 AM)

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/02/last-kodachrome-slide-show-201102#intro





GreedyTop -> RE: End of an era... (2/9/2011 8:51:33 AM)

great pics.. and what a shame to see Kodachrome go the way of the do-do.

damn, and somewhere I have a bunch of rolls of film...



windchymes -> RE: End of an era... (2/9/2011 11:08:16 AM)

Wow, it is a shame. I pretty much figured this was coming, though, when I tried to take a "real" camera to my son's wedding a couple of years ago and trying to find film to buy was almost impossible.




SexyBossyBBW -> RE: End of an era... (2/9/2011 11:17:45 AM)

It is unfortunate, though not surprising.  
I don't like some changes. [&:]   M



LaTigresse -> RE: End of an era... (2/9/2011 11:22:57 AM)

Me either. Lord knows I adore, and I mean love love LOVE my big digital 35mm badass...........but once in awhile I like to drag out my old film version and play too. The lens are inter changeable between the two cameras and supposed to do all the same things but there is something about film that is special.



MarcEsadrian -> RE: End of an era... (2/9/2011 11:29:39 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: LaTigresse

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/02/last-kodachrome-slide-show-201102#intro


It truly is the beginning of an end to an era, it being made complete when we largely forget what film even was. Though I am a web designer and avid digital photographer, I can't help but sense the price for digitizing everything will be considerable for humanity, and that computers, as wonderful as they may be, are slowly turning us into hands-on invalids, divorced from a memory of craft without keyboards. I'll still say there is nothing quite like hand-developing your images in a darkroom, or the creative pride you can feel in bumping / dodging / burning without an "undo".



LaTigresse -> RE: End of an era... (2/9/2011 11:44:08 AM)

I was never really able to do a lot of dark room fun.........as far as film developing goes[;)]. It's just never been available to me and I never had the chance to really learn. I've been blessed with having a great crew that would do it for me, for a nominal fee of course. So in part, I am sort of mourning the loss of what I was never able to fully do. If that makes any sense at all. 



MasterG2kTR -> RE: End of an era... (2/9/2011 4:56:51 PM)

The really sad part is that the inks used to print digital photos don't last and stay as vivid as film prints. In addition most people don't know how to adjust colors as accurately as film developers can when printing at home. So you still need professionals to get good quality photo prints if you want framed photos (unless you use the those cheesy digital frames).



TotallyDude -> RE: End of an era... (2/9/2011 5:05:35 PM)

Lovely. Thanks for posting!




ShaharThorne -> RE: End of an era... (2/9/2011 7:23:32 PM)

I have my mother's graduation from nursing school on a slide.  That is the only thing we got on a slide.

I lost my ufo one... 



TheHeretic -> RE: End of an era... (2/9/2011 9:08:10 PM)

I'm sorry, LaT, I really am. The photographs are great, and thank you for sharing them, but is that NOSE HAIR in image 17???



sunshinemiss -> RE: End of an era... (2/10/2011 12:21:36 AM)


Sunny
Quote of the Day
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ShaharThorne
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I lost my ufo (photo)



Termyn8or -> RE: End of an era... (2/10/2011 1:04:00 AM)

FR

When I was a kid, the guy nextdoor was a photographer. Hanging around with his son I figured that out. The guy's job was literally to go to the races. He shot in B & W because the color film of the time was too slow. He sold his photos and I guess made a living at it, I guess the clients were mainly racers, teams, sponsors, and I think sometimes a magizne.

It was fascinating, he let me watch him develop. The film rolled up, into a black bag, as he put it on a frame. Develped, stopped and fixed, the negatives were ready. He had his own enlarger in a darkroom in the basement. I was intrigued and wanted to do it as well, maybe not as a job, but a hobby.

So now I have this knowledge that is not only useless to me, but useless to everybody. Or is it ? We get better and better digital cameras, and strive for the most, smallest pixels. The pixels in film are not. They are particles. Like the change to digital music from the epitome of vinyl, do some still prefer the old way ? Many claim to be able to tell the difference, and have proven it, but others say that they possibly prefer the imperfections of the old non-digital media.

Do they even bother to make movies on real 70 mm. film anymore or is all that digital ? I wouldn't know.

T^T



MisterBeast -> RE: End of an era... (2/10/2011 7:50:48 PM)

Eh, I have been doin it in digital for 10 years.

Interesting to see though that they are discontinuing it.



WinsomeDefiance -> RE: End of an era... (2/10/2011 8:19:58 PM)

I'm still mourning the loss of poloroids...



thishereboi -> RE: End of an era... (2/11/2011 5:31:05 AM)

Here is a link for those who like a little music while they are reading a thread.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZpaNJqF4po



flcouple2009 -> RE: End of an era... (2/11/2011 5:55:43 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: MasterG2kTR

The really sad part is that the inks used to print digital photos don't last and stay as vivid as film prints. In addition most people don't know how to adjust colors as accurately as film developers can when printing at home. So you still need professionals to get good quality photo prints if you want framed photos (unless you use the those cheesy digital frames).


Most people never had their film developed by a professional.  They dropped it off at the one hour photo and let the 19 year old run it through the machine. 



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