Film is a labor, now it is a labor of love for some, but a lot of damn work not matter how you go about it. Soon, very soon, the photo machines will be gone from stores as the profit margin on keeping them running evaporates. I shot three rolls for tonight and didn’t around to running them through the tanks because…well…it’s a lot of work. I’ve built up and extensive scanned film archive as I work my way through boxes of slides and negatives, which again…is a lot of work.
I don’t blame anyone for sitting out tonight. Shooting analog in a digital world just isn’t simple any more.
It is getting damn near impossible for me to get anything developed anymore. I never really shot negatives, always shot slide film. I only have 1 place near me that develops it and I don’t trust them not to fark it up. My only other option is to mail it out.
Luckily I have a hard drive with slide scans that I found for this one. I still like the way that the Provia and the Velvia come out over the digital, but since the places I submit for paying work won’t take anything but digital files I just don’t shoot the slides anymore.
