worst news ever

[syed]

I totally agree with you, I was just saying given a conversation I had with a friend about this today to be honest. Hopefully enough people remain interested in film to stop the greats being decommissioned.

[Avantster]

even today, if polaroid still made polaroids and kodak still made kodachrome, and every street corner still processed K-14, most people would still choose to shoot crappy cell phone pics..

At least there's still http://www.the-impossible-project.com/..

[endersgame]

i don't think b+w will disappear. someone made a 35mm roll film machine in their garage with good success in sensitizing the film and packaging it in a roll. but in general, b+w is easy to produce..

it's just that the less you have access to factory made materials, the more inconsistent the results will be.

back in WW2, there was a materials shortage and photographers had to use paper negatives. it wasn't as sharp as acetate and it looked like grainy polaroids, but it worked..

[thehouseofdis]

At least there is less chemical waste now that all this film isn't being produced and processed.

Sure, it's nice to have choice, but I'm not going to shed a tear over progress. We live in the 21st century after all. I'm sure there were people bemoaning the demise of the stereograph as well.

[endersgame]

the 19th century photo process is can be done with a few simple chemicals and materials. but it's just not practical compared to modern film or digital. you always need to be close to a wet darkroom, the film speed is less than 0, the materials can be really expensive and hard to find like silver nitrate, ether, etc..

i took a wetplate workshop and i couldn't find half the materials or couldn't afford to do it on my own if i did find them..when i stopped pursuing wetplate, i had about 2 lbs of potassium cyanide left over. luckily i found someone to take it but it's not stuff you can sell on ebay without homeland security on your ass..

[525252]

I'm finding it hard to find stores that have 35mm (where I live anyway)...
I'm not particularly sad polaroids are gone. Not with this huge hipster-vintage-nostalgic-but-made-in-china-a-month-ago thing thats going on. I think the idea of polaroids in that context is so romantic. I mean romantic in a great gatsby way.

[PaintedBlack_7]

i don't think b+w will disappear. someone made a 35mm roll film machine in their garage with good success in sensitizing the film and packaging it in a roll. but in general, b+w is easy to produce..

it's just that the less you have access to factory made materials, the more inconsistent the results will be.

back in WW2, there was a materials shortage and photographers had to use paper negatives. it wasn't as sharp as acetate and it looked like grainy polaroids, but it worked..

this, my brother develops his own B&W photgraphs, taught me how to do it without a camera a few years ago, also can develop them with household chemicals, he uses this processes for a certain effect. which i disagree with, but he seems to like it.

[whitney]

And now even Kodachrome processing is dead.

i saw the special on this a few days ago, when i couldn't sleep and stayed up all night..............i think that its the chemical not being produced anymore that makes this particular style dead..

as for b&w. i made my own camera out of a shoe box when i was a kid

[laughed]

thank God....now I can live my life without seeing Polaroids all over the net taken by stupid little wannabe artist photographer chicks trying to be T-Bone.

[Fade to Black]

^^^

i've never been acquainted with Polaroids in any format, but I don't think that's the point

[525252]

thank God....now I can live my life without seeing Polaroids all over the net taken by stupid little wannabe artist photographer chicks trying to be T-Bone.

There's this wonderful iPhone app called the "hipstamatic" so now you can see automated digital "Polaroids" all over the net taken by stupid little hipsters