Re: Film may not be dead.....

[Peter J. Alling]

Then the working pro with the ultramodern high tech aluminum frame 4x5 
view camera shooting ektachrome for a architectural
magazine that I spoke with not long ago lied.  I doubt it.  4x5 digital 
is a studio thing, not for field work, not yet anyway.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not true. All magazines are now working with digital. Some of it is 4x5, but 
it's digital.
 

What could be called "super glossy" magazines are still demanding 4x5 
inch chromes.  I expect that until 4x5" chrome films are completely 
discontinued that aspect of the commercial market will use film.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   

I think film will continue to be available for the forseeable future, perhaps 
     

as long as fifty years, probably longer. It's kind of like oil paints. They 
didn't go away when people started making photographs or for that matter when 
acrylics were developed. Different media appeal to different artists. Will film 
be used for commercial photography? Not for the most part, but there will always 
be some exceptions. Will film be capable of providing images that are superior 
to digital? Eventually, no. But because it is different, it will still represent 
a unique choice.
   


     

I don't expect film to go away entirely, just to get ridiculously 
expensive with limited choice just like vinyl recordings vs CD. The 
majority of my Leica film kit will be on the block shortly.
    

         

My thoughts exactly, CD has been around since 1983 and you can still buy 
vinyl albeit selected releases, I reckon film has at the very least 20 years 
left :)

John
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From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Sent: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:28:42 +1000
Subject: Re: Film may not be dead.....
  

       

On 17 Jan 2005 at 11:39, Graywolf wrote:
    

         

I will close with the comment that in your and Rob's last posts you both 
admitted you like film, especially B&W but are just too lazy to mess with 
      

           

it at
  

       

this time. Got a message for both of you. Keep proselytizing digital and 
      

           

you
  

       

will help make film disappear, then you will never have to make the 
      

           

choice.
  

       

I don't expect film to go away entirely, just to get ridiculously 
expensive with limited choice just like vinyl recordings vs CD. The 
majority of my Leica film kit will be on the block shortly.

Rob Studdert
HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA
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Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
    

         

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I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. 
During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings 
and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
	--P.J. O'Rourke