Is Film Photography Dying Again?
Thomas Heaton, a brilliant landscape photographer from England, recently posted the video at the top, discussing film, digital and AI. I grew up shooting film, processing it and printing it in a home darkroom. Black and White developing and printing is an art form. Ansel Adams masterwork books covered the Negative and the Print. I had some absolutely magic hours in the darkroom, producing prints that I still admire. I did a very little color processing and printing. Color is much more complicated to do, and honestly exceeded the facilities that had to work with. The renaissance of film photography, for the most part didn't bring with it a renaissance in printing, in fact most "film photographers" send the film off the be processed and scanned, in many cases not even bothering to have the negatives returned to them (it costs extra to have the film returned.) In essence they are substituting fim as the initial recording media, instead of an SD car...
