How to see the future of film photography

Film photography is here to stay, and like art like calligraphy, it will be a dying art that benefits reality.

Now that we have gradually entered the digital age, the kind of pill photography we used to do when we were children has slowly faded out of people's field of vision, so how do you think about the future development prospects of film photography, let's talk about it today.

Compared to the fast-growing digital now,Each old camera is like a finely crafted work of art, bringing together the spirit and wisdom of that era, and carving endless stories.

The most important reason why many photographers love film is that they enjoy the experience of shooting film. Every time you press the shutter, you can't see what you're shooting right away, and you always feel anticipation. He can even recall and imagine the scene at that time, and when he waits for a long time until the film is taken out of the development jar, his heart is filled with a sense of accomplishment.

At this time, he didn't seem to care about how the ** shot was, but was enjoying the whole process. <>

They also like the uncertainty of the film, even if the same scene, the same **, the same development, will have different results, and even occasionally all kinds of accidents will occur during the shooting and development, and these accidents may bring "surprises". In addition, he likes to play with and operate old cameras of various eras, and he feels that he can always gain a lot from the camera. <>

Film and digital are just thatA vehicle for photographyIn essence, it is actually the same, just like listening, using tapes before, now using mobile phones, what we pay attention to is the ** itself, and will not affect our judgment of ** because of what to listen to, photography is the same, film is a product of that era, digital is the trend of development now, are just a medium that accompanies photography in different periods.

Having an old camera is like having a friend who can accompany you to see the world from a different perspective. So film and digital are different from each other, and faded.

For photography, it has now entered the digital age, but although digital video cameras occupy the mainstream, film photography still exists, thenWhat does the future hold for film photography?

As early as 2012, film production companies such as Kodak and Lucky stopped producing film, which meant that digital completed the complete replacement of film, and the once glorious film era came to an end. That said, there is no doubt that this is the age of digital cameras, but that doesn't mean that the future of film photography is bleak and hopeless.

On the contrary, film photography will always exist, although it will not be mainstream, butIt will be more of a craft in the future。Hegel once said that existence is reasonable, so film photography naturally has its existential significance.

Alain Resanne, PhD supervisor at the Northern Centre of Photography in Finland, said that traditional cameras and photographic techniques will not disappear, and in the future it will be more like a "craft", even now that we have entered the digital age, there are many young people who are still using film to shoot**, and we should preserve the past, because if there is no history, it will not reach the future, and cultural inheritance is very important.

The film is silver salt sensitive, and when the shutter is pressed down on the blade to open, it is carried outOptical chemical changes, the process of chemical changes can record countless information, as a photosensitive material, the film itself also has a lot of information, and the color is stepless excessive, and there is a "sense of air" that digital has never hadAs long as the scanner is powerful enough, the film can give you anything, the film is like a tablecloth, the scanning and display hardware is like a table, the tablecloth is infinite, it depends on how powerful the table is.

But after all, the sensor chip is artificially made, and its physical characteristics determine that the better the display, the more pale it will be displayed, which means that the tablecloth is limited, and the larger the table, the more stretched it will be. Therefore, film still has its irreplaceability, at least in modern digital technology, it cannot be comparable to optical chemical changes.

In general, the future of film photography, although it is impossible to recreate its former glory, will still exist because of its irreplaceability.

In terms of sales and reach, film had to go downhill and never go back. But film's status among aspiring photographers has not changed much.

Film itself is the perfect photographic medium, and before digital photography, film had a history of more than 100 years, and had developed into a perfect photographic system and was quite perfect. Today, when digital photography is popular, the figure of film has been gradually reduced, and Kodak has stopped producing civilian film a few years ago.

However, at this year's CES conference, Kodak announced the relaunch of the previously discontinued EKtaChrome Classic Color Reversal Sheet series. It is not known whether this will make film film warm, but it is undeniable that film has indeed contributed countless classics to us.

It is believed that for the vast majority of film users, the color expression and taste brought by film is one of the most important reasons for its attractiveness. Film** has its own unique color characteristics, and it is extremely difficult to achieve this charm produced by digital cameras**. (But in fact, the steps of color correction and color grading also exist in film films) The use of film can achieve a more satisfying effect, reducing the pain of post-adjustment, although it is much slower in terms of speed, but I believe that waiting will pay off.

However, for some users, slowness is what attracts them, and taking it slow to experience, taste and consider, and ask yourself "whether it is worth shooting" will also get a higher production rate. In the hustle and bustle of the fast-paced city life, such slowness is exactly what is needed.

Without the screen behind the digital camera, you'll only be looking for the image, not the image you've already taken. As the first part said, what really matters happens outside of the camera, and a film camera without an LCD allows you to focus on what's going to happen in the next moment。When people get carried away with the screen and look at the ** they have just taken, they don't realize that they are losing touch with the world around them.

I don't think the future of film photography is very good, because the technology is very advanced now, and the future will only become more and more advanced, and the era of film has passed, so it may also be obsolete by the times.

Film photography is always more legally valid than digital images, because it is not easy to tamper with and should never underestimate the enthusiasm of literary and artistic youth for retro nostalgia.

Film photography should be slowly fading into obscurity, unless you are a film photography enthusiast.

Although digital cannot completely replace film today, film is already very weak. The future of film is likely to be bleak, and it is likely to completely withdraw from the stage of history.

This is definitely going to fade out of people's vision, and there are a lot of technologies now.

Comparison with digital camera imaging.

The storage medium of the digital camera is the sensor, and the sensor of the current ordinary digital SLR is the APS-C format, that is, one end is blocked at the left and right ends of the full frame, and the aspect ratio is 3:2 (, in the same proportion as the 135 negative, and the mid-to-high-end digital SLR part can achieve full frame, that is, the same format as the 135 film. Due to the limitation of technical conditions, the imaging of digital cameras can not achieve the high texture and high sense of hierarchy of film camera imaging, the imaging tolerance of ordinary digital cameras is about 3 gears, the tolerance of high-end digital SLR can reach 5 to 7 gears, and the tolerance of ordinary color film is about 5 gears, and the black and white film can even reach 7 to 9 degrees of tolerance, in terms of imaging quality, digital cameras are not enough to be comparable with film cameras.

The film often needs to go through two steps of processing and scanning, the delicacy of the picture has a lot to do with the accuracy of the scanning, advanced scanners can scan out about 1200w pixels (35mm film), but the digital SLR does not have this problem, the accuracy of the pixels is often fixed.

Made with nitrocellulose.

In the early days of the film, the base was made of nitrocellulose, which was similar in composition to gunpowder wool and was extremely flammable. In 1923, the acetic acid safe tablet base was successfully studied, and then the nitric acid tablet base was gradually replaced. The acetic acid flakes have been improved several times in terms of composition, and the triacetic acid flakes have better performance.

After the 50s, the production of nitric acid flakes ceased completely.

The main ingredient of photosensitive emulsions.

It is silver halide suspended in gelatin. Because gelatin can not only suspend silver halide without precipitation, but also contain sensitizing substances, it can increase the sensitivity of the emulsion to light, so that the film has a higher sensitivity to meet the requirements of filming. Silver halide itself is only sensitive to blue-violet light at wavelengths of 400 500 nm, and the images captured are not very bright from the colors seen by the human eye, known as color blindness.

In 1873, the German Vogel discovered that dyes could expand the photosensitive range of silver halide, so he produced a positive color sheet that could sense both blue-violet and green light. After 1906, various cyanine dyes appeared one after another, so that the photosensitive range of film became more and more long-wave, and a panchromatic film that was sensitive to visible light was developed.

Infrared was also born.

In addition, with the development of the photosensitive range to the infrared region, infrared films were also born. Infrared films are mainly used for aerial photography and special photography. The black and white films used to shoot movies are generally panchromatic films, and the black and white film copies used to print black and white films are generally colorblind films.

Although the use of panchromatic photography can make the layers of various colors distinct, which brings a lot of convenience to artistic creation, the shadow tones expressed in black and white films can only be different shades of gray, which is far from meeting people's requirements for expressing gorgeous and colorful nature. As a result, many physicists, chemists, and photographic scientists have studied color photography methods.

According to the color classification, it can be divided into black and white film and color film.

Now that we have entered the era of electronic products, film photography feels that there will not be too good development, because after all, he still needs to waste materials, after all, electronic data is relatively popular now, so there is not too good development.

A lot of people think that the film market will disappear soon, but I think that although this development is not very good, there will still be a certain market, and it will not disappear if it is relatively bleak.

In 1839, when the Frenchman Daguerre announced the camera technology, he still used wet plates, that is, coated with almost liquid photosensitive materials on tin plates, in 1878, the American Eastman Kodak coated them with gelatin to make dry plates, and in 1888, they used celluloid (that is, the plastic still used for table tennis, billiards, and spectacle frames) to make film. Then there was a film of fixed specifications, because celluloid was flammable, and in 1908 a new film was made of acetate. Since the beginning of the 20th century, film has not changed much in the past 100 years.

The structure of the film is divided into a substrate (i.e., a plastic sheet), a pharmaceutical layer, and a protective layer (gelatin) source limb.

Because the advantages of film shooting are: realistic, rich layers, and delicate grain, which cannot be found digitally. Film is the film of the film camera used by people about ten years ago, and it has to be washed and washed after taking pictures to see it.

It's primitive and modern.

In fact, whether it is film or digital, the basic principle is the same. It's just that digital will focus on post-production, while film will focus on darkroom techniques. In fact, the New York School of Photography tutorial was a film photography tutorial, and it was estimated that there were no digital cameras at that time.

Nowadays, there may not be many tutorials dedicated to film photography, you can go up and down the eMule and search for film photography. Of course, some of the current digital ones can also be referred to, they are all aperture shutter ISO, a reason, but the shooting medium has changed.

Recently, I've been reading some books on black and white photography and humanistic photography, and I think that the understanding of equipment is not as good as the grasp of the feeling of photography, after all, the cameras are quite automatic now, even if it is an old mechanical camera, in fact, it is not too difficult to use, the main thing is the cultivation of a sense of photography, and you can shoot different things.