Do I remember... Dude, yer describing last weekend! :-)
You forgot about film expiring (even in the freezer), your fingers smelling like sulfate, the inevitable accidents you have while developing film (that cost your the whole roll), the completely inexcusable accidents that labs have while developing your film, picking up your 6x7 and seeing film is loaded but not remembering the speed, dropping your still wet film and having it get coated with dust and fibers, and waking up in a motel room with an exotic beauty you don't know and rolls of film hanging in the bathroom to dry... (OK - one of those things never actually happened to me, but it was always a risk.)
Well, I came home today to a box on my porch from Freestyle with a fresh pint of HC110 and 5 rolls of Fomapan 120. Last weekend I loaded one of my last two rolls of HIE into the LX and shot only half of it - lets hope I finish it soon. I'm living the memories, if not the dream.
Mark C. On 10/11/2011 7:31 PM, Tom C wrote:
we had to: Use a bulky non-renewable medium called film, Worry because it was temperature sensitive, Worry that it would get accidentally exposed to light, Worry that it wouldn't bind in the camera and strip the sprocket holes, Purchase it at additional cost for each photo outing, Make a trip to get it processed, Pay to have each and every roll processed, Make a trip to pick it up after it was processed, Handle/discard it's packaging, Find a way to store the originals, Find the physical space to store the originals, Scan the medium if we wanted to share an image online, Use or waste the remainder of a roll if we desperately needed to change light sensitivity, Wait for hours, days, or weeks to see our images after the medium was exposed, Totally miss a shot because we couldn't see a preview, Use tripods more often when there was no image stabilization, Use a camera for years because it had a realistic lifespan of desirability that lasted over 3 sols, What else? Tom C.
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