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"ftran999" <ftran999@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Art" <begunaNOSPAMPLEASE@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > He thinks it might be all over for film in 10 years.
> >
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> As long as for the foreseeable future most major (and probably many
> independent) motion pictures, TV shows, and commercials are shot on
film,
> film is not going anywhere.
Kodak has just renewed its efforts in Super-8 movie film. They offer two
b/w (Double-X and Tri-X) and two color reversal (Ektachrome Daylight and
Tungsten) emulsions. No one has made a Super-8 camera in at least 20
years but the used marketplace is hot with young film makers wanting the
"film look" but can't afford 16mm. "Factory Girl" was shot on Super-8,
Super-16, and 35mm.
120 film has been in continuous production for 107 years, invented by
Kodak and never abandoned. There are still people who slit and respool
it for 4x4 "Baby" Rolleis etc.
I have my own negatives and prints going back to the 1960s. I also have
floppy disks (5-1/4", 3-1/2" single sided, double sided) SyQuest disks,
Magneto-Optical disks, WORM drive disks, and numerous data tape formats
(and video tape formats) -- none of which can be read or written since
the companies that made them either went belly up or higher density data
storage overtook them (or SCSI fell out of favor, or DV became all the
rage...). It is all well and good to bemoan the death of film, but
silver halide emulsion is an excellent archival storage medium.
Note I am specifically talking about black and white since that is what
I shoot 99% in medium and large format and 75% in 35mm and smaller.
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