Excitement of Film

[Stealth3kpl]

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I love the excitement at the end of this vid when she gets her first film back and looks through the pictures.

Pete

 

 

[pico]

So perfectly candid and utterly charming!

 

"I think I have become a photographer."

 

You have, young lady.

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[mikemgb]

And this is why I still shoot film, I have never lost that excitement.

[chris_livsey]

Strangely, or perhaps not, that quick chimp on the back of a digital almost never gives that rush of, nailed it, that's a keeper etc It's always a bit of a routine downer or a bland yes for a technically well captured image. Conversely that strip of wet film out of the wash gives a pure adrenalin shot primarily because there are actually images (usually) but they seem to hold so much promise.

 

Sentimental musings on the last day of the year perhaps?

 

Nice post, helps she obviously has a good eye.

Edited December 31, 2016 by chris_livsey

[Martin B]

Nice confirmation that some youngsters go back to or at least try film. This generation grew up with digital technology and was never exposed to film. I started with photography as teenager in 1985 when I inherited my first film SLR - a Pentax with broken light meter. I kept shooting film (with different SLR cameras later) until 2005 when I switched to all digital but still kept my film gear. Ten years later I moved back to film in addition to digital - now with rangefinder (Leica) film cameras and mirrorless/DSLR digital. It is all fun!

[EoinC]

I saw exactly the same response from my daughter when she started shooting film. It's the magic.

[mickjazz]

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My nephew from China a few months ago received his grandfather's FM2 with a 50 1.4 nikkor. He's 16 and never used anything but digital imaging devices. He learned how to find a battery, bought Tri-X from Amazon, started taking photos. Then bought the chemicals and a used tank on Ebay. First film maybe half ok - wasn't using meter correctly. But second roll great!

 

The excitement he had when he shared the developed negatives was dramatic. Now he and a group of other students at his school have gone to film. They bought a bulk loader and a 100 ft roll of tri-x to reduce cost and talked the school into financing a better film scanner. They want to get an enlarger next.

[earleygallery]

I found it mildly irritating, like no one has ever used a film camera before they did. Also lots of misinformation about exposure etc.

 

But, anything that encourages people to try film is good. 

[pico]

I began photography when I abandoned lithography. I could not travel with with stones and wax pencils.  Upon reviewing my conscience I know  it was a mistake to quit lithography.

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Edited January 6, 2017 by pico

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There's still time to start with photolithography, isn't there?

[SilentShutter]

I found it mildly irritating, like no one has ever used a film camera before they did. Also lots of misinformation about exposure etc.

 

But, anything that encourages people to try film is good. 

 

Think about this generation grown up with whatsapp and youtube and smartphones.

Books, letters and a mechanical camera load with film is something "new"

also th experience to touch and wait till the work is ready.......that´s why I start taking

pictures with film again after years I just shot digital !

[EoinC]

I began photography when I abandoned lithography. I could not travel with with stones and wax pencils.  Upon reviewing my conscience I know  it was a mistake to quit lithography.

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Pico, you are the reason the wax pencil industry collapsed, and bees had to look to honey production to try to replenish the disappearing revenue.

[EoinC]

I found it mildly irritating, like no one has ever used a film camera before they did. Also lots of misinformation about exposure etc.

 

But, anything that encourages people to try film is good. 

One has to remember that, for them, no-one has used film before for what seems like a generation. There is a fair bit of misinformation, but it's not a certified instruction, and misinformation comes from trying to find their way through unaided (ie they don't have instructors / parents etc actually walking them through the theory).

 

I just had a Facetime call with my 18yo daughter who had taken her F1N and her only lens (50mm) across to a race training camp with her in Melbourne, and had shot her first Ektar 100 (everything's been B&W so far in her short film journey). She had just gotten the developed negatives and scans back, and was incredibly excited to show them to me.

 

All the ones I saw (albeit remotely through a Facetime video of a monitor) looked well-exposed (she was using a Lumi app on her phone), and were good compositions. She was loquacious on the colours, particularly the blues and reds, and how they were different to any digital photo's she has taken. She also commented that waiting to see what she had produced was like getting a birthday present. She has another 5 rolls of Tri-X to be developed, and I could feel the anticipation.

 

I was fortunate to have a father who had a passion for photography, both at work and at play, and had my sister and I developing B&W and wet printing in our pre-teens. I applaud those youngsters who are finding their way in film, aided only by finding long-idle equipment, getting snippets of information, and encouraging each other.

 

If you think back to the days when film was the medium, how many families owning a camera understood the ASA / Aperture / Shutterspeed relationship? I'm sure most relied on symbols of clouds and suns to determine their exposure settings, and had no idea what the camera was doing when they made such a selection. I think this couple are doing well as they maintain enthusiasm whilst learning.

[semi-ambivalent]

Pico, you are the reason the wax pencil industry collapsed, and bees had to look to honey production to try to replenish the disappearing revenue.

But everybody these days drinks scotch, not mead. Stupid bees.

 

s-a

[EoinC]

But everybody these days drinks scotch, not mead. Stupid bees.

 

s-a

The bee community just can't keeping taking all of these hits.

[stray cat]

I love the excitement at the end of this vid when she gets her first film back and looks through the pictures.

Pete

 

That's really lovely, thanks for sharing. Her unbridled happiness at seeing her first film pictures and how they "turned out" is really something, isn't it?

Edited January 7, 2017 by stray cat

[SilentShutter]

A lot of kids use their smartphone which does anything

but nothing perfectly.

To connect with people and share thoughts sometimes

a simple letter can be very special.

To relax and enjoy music a LP can be magic and to think,

feel and focus on pictures a camera is just the best.

 

Let´s get them excited......