Wet photography is really dying

On 5/11/2008 4:22 PM Charles Hohenstein spake thus:

> In article <MPG.2291803df6eea91298b7d7@news.individual . net >,
> Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld . com > wrote:
>
>> In article <48275c59$0$11167$822641b3@news.adtechcomputers . com >, David
>> Nebenzahl (nobody@but.us.chickens) says...
>>
>>> You know, it's great you have all that stuff; it really is. I don't mean
>>> to take anything away from that. But how on earth can you propose that
>>> since *you* have all this great stuff that the state of wet photography
>>> is OK? It is for you, for the moment, but as others have pointed out,
>>> what happens when manufacturers inevitably start not producing film and
>>> paper? What will we do then?
>>
>> Wet plates. :-)
>
> And dry plates, and homemade paper. But there are too many film cameras
> in use for film to disappear anytime soon, if ever. Even rollfilm sizes
> like 620 and 127 are still available.

Yes, but read what I said about that: It won't disappear, but it will be
expensive, hard to find and restricted in variety.


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In article <chohensteGeneRobinson-55996A.19222911052008
@newsclstr02.news.prodigy . com >, Charles Hohenstein
chohensteGeneRobinson@sbcglobal . net says...

> And dry plates, and homemade paper. But there are too many film cameras
> in use for film to disappear anytime soon, if ever. Even rollfilm sizes
> like 620 and 127 are still available.
>
620 is just respooled 120, you can slit and respool 120 to make 127, so
those formats can continue as long as rollfilm is available and people
can be bothered to mess around with it. I was surprised to note that
apparently even 110 and 126 are still commercially available - these
aren't so easy to DIY because of the registration holes.

"David Nebenzahl" <nobody@but.us.chickens> wrote in message
news:48275c59$0$11167$822641b3@news.adtechcomputers . com ...

> You know, it's great you have all that stuff; it really is. I don't mean
> to take anything away from that. But how on earth can you propose that
> since *you* have all this great stuff that the state of wet photography is
> OK? It is for you, for the moment, but as others have pointed out, what
> happens when manufacturers inevitably start not producing film and paper?
> What will we do then?

I believe there will always be film and paper, however I am afraid it will
be terribly expensive.

One thing that really bothers me is the Rollei film marketing - overpriced
and it comes in its own cute little wooden coffin.

In article <i-ednb4StersFbrVnZ2dnUVZ_j2dnZ2d@supernews . com >,
"Pico" <pico at idrailogid.ten> wrote:

> "David Nebenzahl" <nobody@but.us.chickens> wrote in message
> news:48275c59$0$11167$822641b3@news.adtechcomputers . com ...
>
> > You know, it's great you have all that stuff; it really is. I don't mean
> > to take anything away from that. But how on earth can you propose that
> > since *you* have all this great stuff that the state of wet photography is
> > OK? It is for you, for the moment, but as others have pointed out, what
> > happens when manufacturers inevitably start not producing film and paper?
> > What will we do then?
>
> I believe there will always be film and paper, however I am afraid it will
> be terribly expensive.
>
> One thing that really bothers me is the Rollei film marketing - overpriced
> and it comes in its own cute little wooden coffin.

I'm always curious what people are doing with the Rollei stuff. I've
never felt the urge to try it (largely because of the price), but I'd
like to know what people are doing with it and why they like it.

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"Charles Hohenstein" <chohensteGeneRobinson@sbcglobal . net > wrote in message
news:chohensteGeneRobinson-AC2CCE.21162211052008@newsclstr02.news.prodigy . com ...

> I'm always curious what people are doing with the Rollei stuff. I've
> never felt the urge to try it (largely because of the price), but I'd
> like to know what people are doing with it and why they like it.

Ain't it just rebranded stuff made in Croatia and the Czech Republic?
Anyway, the only people I know who have used it are guys who shoot maybe 20
rolls of film a year. Everything's a one-shot experiment to them. They never
settle down, never get right with a film and developer combo, then they
write a "review" of the film so that their ignorance spreads like a viral
meme.