The death of film

Kodak’s film business decreased year on year, Fuji’s also did something similar. Double digit drops but both seem to have made a profit…

Yaddy yaddy yaaa…

Seriously, *yawn*, It’s quite obvious this would happen. Most people rightly have decided digital is far more convenient from them and what’s more they get the results they want from it. Digital is also bloody excellent. But so is film. They both are.

But the amount of “film is dead” threads that have bounced back with this week’s news is at very best tedious and dull. So long as I can buy film I’ll use it but when they stop making it, whenever that might be, I’ll get equipped with digital. It’ll be a crying shame as I love my Delta 100, Pan F 50, Tri X and HP5, SFX 200, Velvia 50 etc. but just as I have had to say goodbye to Kodak HIE (2 rolls left in the freezer) I’ll say goodbye to the others when they get stopped.

When will that be? Do I look like a friggin’ oracle? In the meantime I’m going to enjoy this thing called photography for everything that it is and the fact I shoot film and like working in the darkroom is incidental to the grand scheme, the main thing is the results and I appreciate those however you took the photo.

See you next year when I’ll probably say the same thing.