Film Photography Is Not Dead, but It Is Dying
I started taking photographs, processing film and printing images on paper in the late 1960s. A Kodak Instamatic, led to an Argus c-3, to 35mm SLRS, and a TLR and a 6x7 SLR. I owned top of the line film cameras in the golden age of film cameras. I worked in an era when new film stocks were being developed with faster film speeds and finer grain. It was an amazing time to work in the field. There were a few old times around who insisted that anything smaller than 4 by 5 inch film, was not serious photography, but 4 by 5 was dying. Very few new cameras were being made, most of what was being used was 30-40 years old, based on designs from before World War II. When I was getting started in photography in the late 1960s Henry Ford's Greenfield Village in Dearborn Michigan, still had a working tintype studio. I was nostalgic for the way things used to be done. It was even more impractical than the guys who insisted that 4 by 5 was the last rea...
