First post, by keenmaster486
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I mentioned that my sister is a photographer in another thread (link)
I dabble in film photography. I have a collection of vintage film cameras that I'm pretty proud of (you can see some of them here). Unfortunately I don't have any of my images scanned in. I'm not very good so most of them are not spectacular, but some of them look as if they were taken by a professional with a DSLR 😀
The film I use is mostly off-brand super-cheap B&W stuff since I don't have any money and I don't want to make my father pay for my stupid hobby 🤣, but once in a while I splurge on some color film.
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[rant] Now I want to say something about color film. The vast majority of it these days is color negative, which means when the film is developed you get a strip of film with the colors reversed, which is usually scanned and the colors switched back digitally. In the early days of widespread color photography (early 40's), the most widely available film was Kodak's Kodachrome. This film is color positive, i.e. you get a filmstrip back from the developer with the colors correct and not reversed. The film is then cut and placed into slides, which are viewed on a slide projector. We still have color positive film today, but my point is this: Kodak's first iteration of Kodachrome was (and this is subjective) the finest film ever created. Photos taken with this film display a sharpness, color tone, and general appeal that has never been replicated with any other film or digital filter. It was also used for a lot of movies ("Technicolor"? Just Kodachrome by another name!) I'm talking about the first iteration, not Kodachrome II, X, 25, or 64. The best photos were processed directly by Kodak, back when they wouldn't let any other company process their film. In 1954 the government decided to break this up instead of encouraging competition, and something about the developing process changed. The photos no longer had that special quality. They were still excellent, excellent photos, still not surpassed by anything, but something was lost with that process change, most notably a little of the softness of the color tone. Oh well. If I ever have the opportunity (like if I end up a billionaire with money to burn) I will try to recreate the original Kodachrome and the original K-1 developing process. [/rant]
OK sorry for the rant. So, anyone else do digital or film photography here?
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