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Will film and film photography be a thing of the past in 5 or 10 years? |
just wondering since this digital boom in photography seems to be taking over. what are your reasons that film , film photography, and dark rooms will stick around...thanks! Film may still be around in the next 5 years as a major player, but it will increasingly be pushed from the mainstream user to the artistic elite. Printer technology and pricing will drive the move more than the cameras in my opinion. Although cameras are dropping in price very quickly, I think it will be the ability to make cheap, high quality prints at the home user level that will be the strongest driving force. I recently made the jump to digital. I think film cameras make for better photographers because there is a greater sense of the finite resource of film. With digital it is more of a brute force volume picture taking routine. However, the biggest thing I see is the apparent lack of high power zoom lens for the digital camera world. If they make now or at some point in the future make a digital camera that can handle an add on high power zoom lens or have the same zoom level, I think even more people will make the jump to digital. I think by 10 years film photography will only be used by the artistic fringe. Instant gratification from cheap, high quality digital cameras and color printers will be the mainstay of the vast majority of photographers beginner to professional. film will still be around, around the planet, old movies, films, will always need to be maintained, until digitally remastered and archived, No film photography will always be around because of the vast differences in creative processes that can not be done with digital. The process itself being as much a part of the artistic process as the outcome. Just like photography never killed of painting, and acrylic paint didn't kill off the use of oil paint. Film will be here for a long time if for no other reason than it is immensely cheaper to buy film cameras than digital cameras. Kodak JUST introduced a whole new line of film, so they have not given up on it. I won't even get into the debate about artistic expression and so on, because I think the market will be consumer driven. I just read that over 80% of the population of the USA takes pictures. Most of that is done at birthday parties, on vacations, and so on. There are a whole lot more people taking pictures to preserve memories than to create art. I think Kodak will go where the money is. They are certainly a power player in the consumer market for digital and they probably have 90% of the film market at the consumer level. (My guesstimate.) They are not driving themselves out of business. They are facing the reality that Mom and Pop America will not spend the money for digital cameras - even cheap ones - as long as film does the job they need. FILM FOR LIFE! Film-based photography will be around for some time. Its availability and usage will decline somewhat with many pros using digital equipment but it will remain. Many artists will use film because they can work wonders with it. Some like me will just be too stubborn to change. And the "not so financially well off" will use it because the investment in a digital isn't worth it for them. In the age of satellite-guided weapons and electromagnetic guns, blacksmiths still push out swords, shields, and chain mail armor. 5 years of photography. I don't think so, in the studio I use all digital and most road assignments. How ever on those days when I get to go shoot on my own I still play with slide in my old 4x5 or 90mm, digital still can't compare with cebacroms prints (but most people don't know how to look that close) I think file and slide will be around for years to come. but in a secondary poison to digital. |
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