erik_asgeirsson Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 "Film is dying" threads seem to be very popular here of late. If you feel film is dying, fine, go digital. Just don't proclaim film's imminent death to somehow justify your purchase to yourself. If film dies, it dies. However, history has shown that as long as a market exists, the product in question will continue to be available. Newly manufactured reel-to-reel tapes are still available, even though they have long since been displaced in the professional and consumer world by cassettes, DATs and CDs. Very few vinyl records are available new, but record player needles and record players are still available (as are vacuum tubes). Super 8 cameras have long since been obsolete, but super 8 film is still available. Expensive fountain pens are still available, as is fountain pen ink. All these markets have shrunk, but as long as people demand these products, someone will fill the niche and turn a profit. Quite frankly, it's simple economics. None of these markets are nearly as large as in their heydays, but film should remain larger than all of these for many years. One often omitted fact in these film vs. digital arguments is that in poorer countries, where computers are few and far between (many parts of South America, Africa, even the Middle East) film is the only option for recording photographs, both financially and practically. If you like digital photography in any form, by all means purchase digital cameras and shoot to your heart's content. If you like film, by all means purchase film and shoot to your heart's content. If digital does permeate as much as some predict and film disappears from drugstore shelves, then film users will simply become in the same class as the reel-to-reel and LP users I mentioned above. There are even regional fountain pen shows for fountain pen lovers, and the ball-point has been the predominant writing instrument in schools and businesses (not counting the computer, of course) for several decades now. Digital and film will both continue to exist for as long as there are photographers who purchase and use either medium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominic_. Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 Enough said, thanks Erik (bit fed up w/ those posts), I bet we could make a separate forum <i>Film vs. Digital</i>, who'd want to moderate that (not me: but I can think of a few;-). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominic_. Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 <p>Enough said, thanks Erik (bit fed up w/ those posts), I bet we could make a separate forum <i>Film vs. Digital</i>, who'd want to moderate that (not me: but I can think of a few;-). Sorry about that.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
absinthe Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 My god, you just created another film vs digital thread....<p><h2>Thank You!</h2><p>ZZZzzzzzz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grant_. Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 hey, i didnt kill film, i swear... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crackers_. Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 I'm a step ahead by keeping my digital camera in the freezer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominic_. Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 yes Grant, its all your fault;-), may you be damned to hell for all eternity;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grant_. Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 damn d100....its all her fault Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 Oh no, <P> There will film vs digital threads for all! <P> Bahahahahaaahhhahahahaaa! <P> <b>FOREVER!</b> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
absinthe Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 Perhaps a diversion is necessary:<p> <a href="http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com">www.badgerbadgerbadger.com</a> <br> <a href="http://www.tamponart.com">www.tamponart.com</a> <br> <a href="http://www.kokogiak.com/logolepsy">Luciferous Logolepsy</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tod_hart Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 Even this <a href="http://www.PopPhoto.com/article.asp?section_id=3&article_id=800&page_number=1">guy</a> acknowledges that film is far from dead. And in the same month he was on NPR to talk about the rise of digital photography. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominic_. Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 <p>YES!!! Someone else knows about badgerbadgerbadger, I'm not alone;-)!!!;)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricBoehm Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 Must... make... it... stop... film... digital... make... it... stop... <insert sound of my head exploding here> Folks, the horse is dead, it's descendents have have long since met their makers, the glue made from the horse has long since decomposed... STOP BEATING IT!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
absinthe Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 What better way to spend your afternoon than with BadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerSNAKE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 Meh.....I like Badger I guess.<P>But I can waste a lot more time on <a href="http://n.ethz.ch/student/mkos/pinguin.swf">THIS.</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grant_. Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 i just wasted 10 mins...heh..... <P> 317.1 is my high so far....:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike dixon Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 After five minutes, my best are 289 on a skidder and 205 on a noseplant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander_m. Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 301,7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander_m. Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 317,9 !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_evans4 Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 <p>Dammit, how does <a title="penguin" href="http://n.ethz.ch/student/mkos/pinguin.swf">it</a> work? I tried all sorts of things, and couldn't get anything to happen, then did something (but what?) with my rat and scored 157 or so, but now can't get anything to happen again.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 My high is 324.5 (I think), out of my first 25 "swings". Since then I've gotten 316, 320, 310 etc every so often, but haven't beaten it. To play you click your mouse once and that drops the penguin. Then you click again and the yeti will swing the bat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico_tudor Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 On a scale of 10, this digital-vs-film thread rates a 2. Try again. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_evans4 Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 On the contrary, Rico: it's very informative. Thanks to Josh's detailed technical recommendations, I just now scored 282.9. But thanks for the encouragement: yes, I'll try again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__jon__ Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 BadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerMUSHROOMMUSHROOMBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerSNAKE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__jon__ Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 BadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerMUSHROOMMUSHROOMBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerSNAKE! 317.9! BadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerMUSHROOMMUSHROOMBadgerBadgerBadgerBadgerSNAKE! Both are great at the same time. Now if I only had some acid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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