[rollei_list] Re: The Photographic Reality
- From: Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:55:08 +0000
Yes, I guess for a professional film may be cheap. For an 11 year old amateur
it wasn't, believe me. I still think the saying is an Americanism rather than a
worldwide one, in that I have only heard it from North American pros. None of
the European pros I know used it as a little saying, though the sports pros I
know certainly shot a lot of frames. I used to carry film back to England from
Grands Prix for the Autosport and Motoring News staff photogs years ago.
For me everything about photography was expensive! I could afford it for the
last few years but will need to be more economical in retirement.
cheers,
Frank
On 21 Feb, 2010, at 18:18, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>> I had never heard the phrase "film is cheap" pre-internet. Perhaps it was a
>> US
>> teacher's thing, hence unheard here in the UK.
>> For me, starting photography as a schoolboy in 1961 film was -very-
>> expensive.
>> I could afford 1 cassette of B&W film per month. I learned to consider what I
>> wanted -before- pressing the shutter, not after looking at the results.
>> This is so imbued in my psyche that when I could afford more film I still
>> shot
>> sparingly, and now I use digital, and each shot is effectively free, I shoot
>> more than with film, but not in a profligate way.
>> OTOH, when I am photographing people, I -do- often wish I had shot more.
>> Maybe I will get into the habit eventually...
>> Frank
>
>
> Frank "film is cheap" is a common piece of basic good advice people getting
> into professional photographer hear from their mentors and their peers from
> day one . In the context of professional photography is a basic fact and
> truth that has been with us for a very long time and has never been a matter
> of the slightest controversy. ...till we got news lists on the internet
> with camera collector types second guessing the methods of serious and
> professional photographers from the back seat.
>
> [Rabs]
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
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