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Q. How Long Would Film Last ?
Asked by Rashed Abdulla
(K=4136) on 1/29/2010
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Last few months I turned my photography all in using Films.
Films are still available with most big stores on the net, like adorama and B&H, and film home processing of color Negatives and B/W are not hard to achieve where chemical to do so is also available with major stores.
I bought my both Hasselblade 503 CW and the 500 CM used but in a superb condition and I did use them there, the hard time was finding a place to process the B/W film where I was in Pattaya and finally I found a place in Chon Buri, it takes one day time to have them processed and sent back to me, in here while at home I do the processing myself both the color negative and the B/W.
The problem is with investing a lot of money into film cameras and lenses, how long would film remains in the market?
According to Kodak sources that they are having increase in selling films and so Fuji and Ilford, but with today’s rapid improvement of digital cameras and their easiness of shooting and digitally processing the images , digital is more preferred by people, especially the people who do not have a serious interested in photography.
Are we going to see film lasting with us for the next 5 years or film is going to vanish sooner than that?
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Dave Arnold
(K=55680) - Comment Date 1/29/2010
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"digital is more preferred by people, especially the people who do not have a serious interested in photography."
I beg to differ with you and take offense with your summation that people shooting digital are not serious.
You always know the right things to say.
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Jeroen Wenting
(K=25317) - Comment Date 1/30/2010
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That's not what Rashed meant, probably.
He is quite correct if he means that among those not serious about photography digital is more prevalent than among those who are.
Among the snapshooters, who shoot only their summer beach vacation, digital by now after all will be nearly 100% (not counting disposables, where the users don't even know what they're using). Among pros and discerning amateurs there's a larger group still using film on the side or even as their preferred medium.
Film has been on a slow decline for the last decade almost, with the availability of both cameras, film, and processing/printing becoming worse and worse, and prices going up to match the new "elite" or niche status.
For that reason alone many amateurs have switched (almost) fully to digital.
I know it's the reason I did. Paying €25+ to get a single roll of slides processed and framed is just not cost effective if you use 200+ rolls a year (and that's not counting the cost of €15+ per roll in the end).
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Rashed Abdulla
(K=4136) - Comment Date 1/31/2010
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Thank you dear Dave.
Thank you dear Jeroen Wenting, I was really just refering to the films as being a major photographic item which is now is getting real short in the market and in some places too hard to find.
Of course this is the world and everything in it is changening and we have to except all that, technologies is a need , it is just some times a person would feel sorry for things he got used to for a long time and then you get to see it slowly going away, I think this is like and we have to except all thant.
Thank you a lot and wishing you all of the best.
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