I like film...(open thread)

[A miller]

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She is riding the red horse....

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Portra 400

M-A, 28 cron

 

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[wattsy]

I'm often a bit ambivalent about photos that incorporate billboard ads or other photos, etc. but there is so much going on here – including various eyes catching the viewer from different directions and the various complementary reds. The three blokes on bikes is the icing on the cake, so to speak. Terrific photograph, Adam.

 

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M-A, 28 elmarit pre-asph, Provia 100F (+2, per another work accident  )

 

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[wattsy]

You are really on a roll here, Adam, with these "red" photographs. I'm sure you must hire some of these people   – that workman with the slow sign (and cigarette in his mouth) is straight out of NY central casting.

 

while we are on the subject of red....

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[A miller]

Thanks, Ian.  

I'm often a bit ambivalent about photos that incorporate billboard ads or other photos, etc. but there is so much going on here – including various eyes catching the viewer from different directions and the various complementary reds. The three blokes on bikes is the icing on the cake, so to speak. Terrific photograph, Adam.

 

Ha, ha, if I hired that guy in the back I would have given him a red "STOP" sign LOL

You are really on a roll here, Adam, with these "red" photographs. I'm sure you must hire some of these people   – that workman with the slow sign (and cigarette in his mouth) is straight out of NY central casting.

[logan2z]

Leica M-A, Summarit 35mm/2.4 ASPH, Tri-X 400

 

[philipus]

Love those red photos Adam. On the same colourful theme (50/1.4A Portra 160)

 

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[philipus]

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And from the same roll

 

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[philipus]

They're details from a window in the Bijenkorf department store in The Hague.

 

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[A miller]

Wow, I LOVE this one.  Such a fantastic composition with subject of high interest.  Congrats on this one!!

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Thanks, Philip, and yes, let it rain red!!! Nice and colorful photos!

Love those red photos Adam. On the same colourful theme (50/1.4A Portra 160)

 

 

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[logan2z]

Wow, I LOVE this one.  Such a fantastic composition with subject of high interest.  Congrats on this one!!

 

Thanks Adam!

[Doc Henry]

 

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Shot in 2018 but could equally be from the Cold War years.  Tower Bridge.

 

Lady Grey 400 with M3 and 50/2 Rigid Summicron.

 

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Pete it's like in a thriller and he looks like Sherlock Holmes

Well done.

 

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while we are on the subject of red....

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Adam red the return I remember your first street photos with this red on a lady with glasses

near a lamppost

Nice series and well done

Best regards to both of you

Henry

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[philipus]

On the topic of stained glass windows, this is part of the main window in the Ridderzaal, or Hall of Knights, at the Binnenhof in The Hague.

 

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[A miller]

Ah yes, my favorite selfie and my long-standing avatar on LUF, FB and Flickr  You don't know how many times people have mistaken me for a woman and not taken another couple of seconds to realize that I am the one with the fedora in her chest   I even had a guy named Adam Miller send me emails hitting on me wanting to meet me.  And if I recall correctly, dear Henry, you did suggest that I crop out the red pole when I first posted this on this thread a couple of years ago, did you not???

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Adam red the return I remember your first street photos with this red on a lady with glasses

near a lamppost

Nice series and well done

Best regards to both of you

Henry

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[Doc Henry]

very peaceful, Henry.  Looks a little like Central Park after a snow

 

Thanks Adam another red for you but smaller red

 

 

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[Doc Henry]

Ah yes, my favorite selfie and my long-standing avatar on LUF, FB and Flickr  You don't know how many times people have mistaken me for a woman and not taken another couple of seconds to realize that I am the one with the fedora in her chest   I even had a guy named Adam Miller send me emails hitting on me wanting to meet me.  And if I recall correctly, dear Henry, you did suggest that I crop out the red pole when I first posted this on this thread a couple of years ago, did you not???

for Henry.jpg

 

Exact , good memory Adam

Thanks for posting again

Best

Henry

[A miller]

Henry - I think I like this one even better than the first one you posted.  

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[Doc Henry]

Henry - I think I like this one even better than the first one you posted.  

 

Thank you Adam

 

so film is not dead 

 

 

For Adam, a second one taken yesterday snowy day this time

not sunny

 

 

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[A miller]

Thank you Adam

 

so film is not dead 

 

 

For Adam, a second one taken yesterday snowy day this time

not sunny

 

 

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Henry

 

wow, this is the BEST!!  Bravo, Henry!!

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[Doc Henry]

Thank you Adam

 

so film is not dead 

 

 

For Adam, a second one taken yesterday snowy day this time

not sunny

 

 

Kodak Portra 160-Leica M7-Summilux 35 Asph

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Picture uncorrected with any software LR or another

 

 

 

 

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Best

Henry

 

 

wow, this is the BEST!!  Bravo, Henry!!

 

Thank you Adam ... sorry it's Kodak Portra 400 not 160

dev in Tetenal by myself

Best

Henry

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[stray cat]

Great pictures Henry, Philip, Logan2z and Adam!

 

 

While I don't doubt that the person writing this has more insight than I do into the economics of color-film production, I'm simply amazed that it can't be a small-scale profitable business.

Outside of this forum (with a higher proportion of HCB-type black-and-white enthusiasts) I see enormous amounts of color film being shot (I don't just mean personally, but also on Flickr and other sites).

Anyway, not really a discussion for this thread (and it's been gone over so many times before), but the attitude of the ADOX person felt pretty defeatist.

 

 

I also received finally a response from ADOX about reinstating Color Implosion:

 

(sic) "It´s impossible. Color Implosion was limited to begin with and there is a reason. The raw material is no longer available and even with billions of dollars it could not be remanufactured. Manufacturig a color product is about the same level of technology as building a rocket."

 

A little too much hyperbole here for my taste.  I hear the message loud and clear but in the words of Hamlet's Queen Gertrude: 'methinks thou doth protest too much'.

 

Pete.

 

 

I totally agree with what you both write here, plastic and farnz. As you correctly state, plastic, the person writing obviously is much more in touch with the industry than (certainly) I am, or even perhaps we are, yet something about what he says doesn't quite ring true.

 

I thought about his response after I posted it here, and another thing really started to gnaw at me:

 

"Even under the above circumstances the two players cannot make money (Fuji lives of Instax and Kodak of the movie industry)... We do have plans to post process other color material and make a new creative film but it will not be the same as Color Implosion and this stock will be limited as well because currently no color film is supplied at all by either Fuji or Kodak to third parties.".

 

Huh? So the only two "players" making film don't (or won't) supply to third parties, yet they expect to process colour material at some stage? Where will they be getting that from? And, in addition, if it is so difficult for Fuji and Kodak to make money from colour film, it beggars belief to accept that they wouldn't be selling it to keen buyers like Adox (and I've no doubt plenty of others). Where does, for instance, Holga and Lomo get their colour film from? And doesn't Agfa buy film from Fuji?

 

Anyway, I agree - the response seems somewhat disingenuous - even to someone who has little knowledge of the industry. But the fact remains that, the more film we use, the healthier the long-term viability of supply will be.