Justinreich12

Thank you to everyone for their detailed responses! I really appreciate them so much! I will use these responses to formulate a one page paper. Our assignment was to post a forum on an issue that I have encountered or on a topic that interest me. I wanted to know more behind the chemistry of developing film and know more about of why we use film in today's modern day society, where everything is digital, and nothing is manually.

Hello, I am college student attending Stockton University. I am taking a class Introduction to Photographic medium and I just have a few questions that I am unsure about when developing and loading my film. 1. With all the modern technology out there, why do we still manually put film into the reel? In this day in age, shouldn't there be machinery that automatically loads your film into the reel? Many people struggle with this task because of the fact it is done in complete darkness. Film can get jammed in the reel, which will damage the film and if you keep on trying to put film into the reel, there is a great chance that there will be fingerprints marks all over the film, which will ruin all your pictures when trying to make finalized prints in the darkroom. 2. Why for each different type of film are the developer times different? Some films require only six minutes of developer (the chemical) while other films require 15 minutes of developer (the chemical). Also why are developer times different based on the temperature of the developer as well? The film that our class uses, is Tri-X 400. 3. Why do some chemicals like developer and fixer, require agitation in a non constant way (for every 30 seconds agitate five seconds or every minute agitate 10 seconds), while chemicals like stop bath and perma wash require constant agitation? 4. What is the difference between the chemicals developer and fixer when developing film, verse developer and fixer when producing prints in the darkroom. What would happen if you switched the two? 5. Why is film photography still taught in modern day society, instead of digital? Is there a purpose behind teaching high school and college students film photography? Are there photographers in today's society that use film to take their pictures in their profession?