These courses are about B&W film photography and taught in the art department. We have two brand new darkrooms that accommodate 16, also in the art dept. I've had some nice talks with the new photography professor, and she sees B&W film persisting indefinitely as an art supply. I'm not surprised that film-based courses are going away as "technical" subjects but they are becoming popular in art depts. at schools that are not looking to squeeze every dime. This includes many of the private undergraduates colleges like mine. The course is really popular, as is the digital photography course also offered in art. The presence of film in mainstream photography is diminishing but I don't see B&W film ever completely going away anymore than oil paints. If anything, it is getting more of a cachet as an artistic technique.
As an aside, I took so long to respond to this because I can't seem to send posts to the list from the internet connection at my house. I have no idea why. I have to wait until I come into my office. >>> "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/3/2007 1:34 PM >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Desjardins" Subject: Re: FID (Film is Dead) > Film (at least B&W) still lives on in college photography courses. Big > new darkrooms and a long waiting list of students. The new photography > professor told me that last year she got the first group with students > that had never used film. Of course, they use mostly K1000s. Is that your college specifically or are film courses generally available? Our local tech college is no longer offering film anything. As much as I appreciate and enjoy working with film, I see it as being more of an an appendix to a college of arts than anything else at this point. It's use by professional photographers is pretty much over at this point (I suspect Clint Clements is still using it, and this will be trotted out as proof of universal usage), the pro boys where I am are 100% digital now. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net !SIG:46b36b6a117328588214762! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
