[rollei_list] Re: Film/Digital
- From: Bob James <starboy0@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:25:59 -0500
Long live film!
I love the charm of the in-betweenness of analog; there is something other than
mere 1's and 0's.
I like when I put the sleeved negatives away I have something tangible to
return to. They have just discovered all the wonderful Rollei negatives (and
undeveloped rolls) of Vivian Maier; had she shot digital what would have
remained?
Film makes me slow down and makes me think more carefully; I do not have the
infinite capability of erase and do over.
Film is a hand written letter; digital is an email.
Every time I hand load the Rolleiflex with those 120 spools, I feel the same
wonderful anticipation I felt as a boy. How is this going to turn out?
Hmmm... will have to be patient and wonder about it.
Not trying to offend my digital brothers who I'm sure have made more beautiful
photographs than I ever have. Just my personal sentiments.
Bob James
On Oct 16, 2011, at 3:49 PM, David Sadowski <dsadowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It is a fact of life that digital photography has largely displaced
> photography using film and chemicals. This is easy to determine comparing
> the number of digital cameras sold each year vs. film cameras.
>
> The economics behind conventional photography have largely collpased.
> Polaroid exists as a brand name only; even Kodak is seemingly on the verge of
> bankruptcy.
>
> Even when you go into a movie theater nowadays, chances are you are watching
> a digital display and not film.
>
> In the past few years, I have purchased several film cameras. I have a
> Widelux F6B, a Widelux 1500, a Graflex XL, and a Graflex XLSW, in addition to
> my two Rollei 35SEs.
>
> Nothing would please me more than to have another Leica M4 with black paint
> and a late chrome 50mm f2 lens or another Rolleiflex 2,8F as I had in the old
> days.
>
> That being said, 99% of my photos are taken with an inexpensive Lumix digital
> camera and I also have an excellent scanner that can do negs, slides, or
> prints.
>
> Nobody wishes they still made Graflex cameras more than I do, but I also
> understand why they don't.
>
> And if Ansel Adams or Torkel Korling were growing up today, let's include
> Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson in there too, they would be using
> digital cameras like everyone else.
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