Photographers are an odd bunch...

by Paul , Saturday, March 02, 2024, 14:44 (56 days ago) @ A K Church

we live in a marvelous time in which one can capture high definition images in amazing fidelity to the actual scene. And yet there's a resurgence in interest in the older technologies. There's a new company specializing in brand new manufactured large format cameras - and folks are coming up with ways to use them with wet plates or large format film (which is surprisingly still available if somewhat expensive). 35mm film continues to be available and a number of options are still out there for developing and printing it. Medium format film is also still around and has quite a following. Film may be dying, but it's a long, drawn out process. In the meantime there are those shouting from the roof tops that if you don't have the latest and greatest mirrorless camera you're not a real photographer. Kind of like the 6.5 Creedmoor fans who believe it's the end all of ballistic perfection.