DISQUS

Carl · 9 months ago

"Good Riddance?" excuse me but there are still some film photographers out there, many of them amateur, who will miss the days of one hour photo development. These photo services are also useful for any sort of social science work where a permanent copy is required (archeology, criminal investigation). Due to the problems of the ever-changing digital formats there is no way to tell if todays formats or storage media will be readable in 50 years. For example, how many computers in use today can read the old punch cards from early computers? No, the loss of one hour photo is a loss to film photographers everywhere.

p0ps · 9 months ago

digital photos posted to the cloud have the best chance of surviving
changing technology formats.

Atane · 9 months ago

I really don't understand how not using film photography hinders you from storing permanent copies. In fact, it makes it easier. Archaeologists, Cops, Crime investigators etc all use digital cameras today and can make unlimited prints if they wanted.

Further more, they can see the quality of the pictures when they take them, unlike film photography where you have to wait to see the quality of the pictures after the fact. Imagine you are an archaeologist on an expedition and you discover some rare artifact, then when you get your film developed, you realize that most of your pictures were terrible. This is not a problem with digital photography.

I really can't think of any problems with digital photography, other than people who wax poetics about film photography simply because of nostalgia. In terms of practicality, film photography is dead.