CityStream: The Return of Film Photography

The ubiquitous cell phone has made everyone a picture taker. Plus, digital technology means you can take thousands of photos of your summer vacation, for free. But for true photographers, loading a film camera, setting the f-stop and shutter speed and then carefully selecting 24 shots, is a lesson in discipline. Add to this the developing and printing process and this helps explain the allure of film photography and why more and more people have rediscovered film. Michael Crowe takes a look.
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[@MiladJP]

Loved every moment of this ❤ Film is not dead

[@photofusionart]

Agree 100 % that's why I started my channel specifically for 35 mm film fans - check it out!

[@BenjoC8632]

Love it. As a Gen-Xer, I grew up with film. About 6 years ago I randomly decided to throw a roll of Kodak Gold in my late dads old Nikon F2 and have been in love ever since🙏🏼

[@photofusionart]

Agree 100 % that's why I started my channel specifically for 35 mm film fans - check it out!

[@MrDebone75]

I appreciate the "new" converts to film but there are some of us who never left. I'm 67 and have never used a real digital camera. I still develop and print from an enlarger in the darkroom

[@Dreshootsfilm]

Great to see, film is not dead

[@Focal_Paradox]

With the advent of AI created images, digitally captured imagery is going to become less valuable on a personal and emotional level. I predict we will see an increase in people wanting physical prints made from actual film projected onto light sensitive paper in an actual darkroom in the 'old fashioned way'. There is going to be a backlash against the digital world when AI/Automation starts replacing humans at nearly every role and task we currently take for granted. It's coming, sooner than we might like. We are going to see a resurgence in all things "analogue" as humanity grasps for meaning in an automated world.

[@dylanmccallister1888]

Idk How old are you? Im 27 and i can say for people my age and younger doing all that for a picture is a PITA. We grew up with digital media and im probably the first generation to have everything including a lot of my home videos from when i was very young never being anything but digital. You have to get people to go BACK to something they were never accustomed to. Something we all see as an inconvenience today, and it costs a LOT compared to the infinite photos my digital camera in my pocket can take for the cost of charging my phone. My entire childhood can fit on a tiny SSD and i can access it and share it whenever i want to. The closest most of us my age would come to "adopting film" is having all the negatives digitally scanned anyways which AI can also replicate. We are getting to the point already that fake images can be analyzed and be passed for real ones, including what look like digital scans of negatives. There will never be a way for something to be passed as 100% real even giant prints because AI can replicate film scans already. We are on our way to having quantum computers the size of your iphone that will have more computing power than all of the world's existing computers put together in my lifetime. There will be nothing it cannot exactly replicate and fool people. The only people who will do what you are talking about are some older people, and people already into film as a hobby. People like me will not go backwards and inconvenience ourselves. We will have to go back to the old taking someone's word for it, like before there were cameras for most of human history, "I was there i saw. Don't believe me? Not my problem"

[@fintonmainz7845]

@@dylanmccallister1888 it's not as if film photography is an ancient art. It's quite new. Chemistry is not a fundamentally superior art to electronics.

[@thevoiceman6192]

It already has. Computers and automation have been replacing people way before AI.

[@markgoostree6334]

My sister has given me her darkroom. If I can just figure out how to get it up and running! I never stopped using film but I am not happy with what I get back from my negatives. Film needs to be printed light through negative onto paper to be real.

[@fintonmainz7845]

I wonder how people will look back on this trend in 10 years.

[@orion7741]

its not a trend though. unless you consider something that has been in practice for roughly 120+ years as a "trend"..... film never went away, so it cannot be called a trend. in ten years time there is going to be even more film to choose from than there is right now. I say that because right now we have more film stocks to choose from than we did 25 years ago! its growing extremely fast these days and has no signs of stopping.