It just dawned on me that photographers who shoot film as if it's some virtue signaling purist badge of honor, then have to digitize the print or negative for the rest of us to see it...uh...?
I get that it's more challenging when you don't have 128 gigabytes of storage for thousands of images. You only have 36 exposures. Times the number of rolls of film you can afford. Maybe only one or a dozen if you're a wet plate or 4x5 or 8x10 view camera type.
It's obviously a more expensive endeavor than digital.
Well, I might take that back - considering the cost of digital cameras.
Anyone want my 1975 era Pentax KM?
Maybe shooting film actually forces them to be a better photographer. Maybe it forces them to truly/deeply learn/understand light, depth of field, ISO (ASA for this old fart), the interrelationships of shutter speed and aperture, depth of field, composition.
Perhaps even setting up a darkroom and developing your own film and printing your own prints. That's a whole 'nother skill set. Especially if you're doing C-41 (color negative) in addition to black and white.
That's admirable. I can respect that.
But it seems like, in the purest purist sense, we should never see their work. Unless it's hanging in a local coffee shop or community art gallery.
Just thinking/saying/musing/wondering.
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