{"id":2369,"date":"2009-06-24T03:13:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T07:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2017-10-24T19:21:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T23:21:56","slug":"photos-kodak-black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/photos-kodak-black-and-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Kodak Black and White Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With the recent demise of filmstock such as Polaroid instant film and now Kodak Kodachrome, I’ve been thinking about shooting more film.\u00a0 When I think back to random events in my life, I’m always glad that I carried a film camera around with Kodak black and white film, even when it wasn’t practical, because every now and then there would be an image that gets elevated from a simple snapshot to a worthwhile memory.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the photos in the gallery above were taken last week.\u00a0\u00a0A good number of\u00a0the photos were taken almost 15 years ago.\u00a0 And the rest were inbetween, when I just wanted a change of pace.\u00a0\u00a0Most of the time\u00a0I got burned, getting absolutely nothing worthwhile in an entire roll.\u00a0 When I first started shooting, black and white had to be sent off and you got the photos back in about 2 weeks.\u00a0 Nowadays almost anything can take a picture for the sake of being uploaded and shared as a testament to our own vanity and hubris. (…I know, guilty as charged…) \ud83d\ude42 Film will always have its “problems” like the whole development process, the cost of it all in terms of money and time, but sometimes it’s worth it.\u00a0 Digital and Film are separate tools and both have their place.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So to all the youngsters out there, who don’t even know the difference between a jpeg and gif, stop obsessing about megapixels for a bit, and so called noise ratings of digital sensors, and the debates that treat cameras like cars.\u00a0 Shoot a roll of film once in awhile and you’ll see that the rules change to the point where there are no rules.\u00a0 If anything it makes a person appreciate just how good digital technology has become.\u00a0 From my own life and personal experience, I look at our family’s refugee photos, all taken with cameras and film that are far, far inferior to what we have now, and they’ll always have a pathos that makes me wonder in amazement at how we came from those desparate times to where we are now…complaining about random needless things.\u00a0 Yeah, I was just thinking about film today, and how it really is the stuff of Hollywood movies and memories.\u00a0 If I was a “real” photographer I would probably shoot more of it, but I’m still trying to figure out this drawing on paper thing…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    With the recent demise of filmstock such as Polaroid instant film and now Kodak Kodachrome, I’ve been thinking about shooting more film.\u00a0 When I think back to random events in my life, I’m always glad that I carried a film camera around with Kodak black and white film, even when it wasn’t practical, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151,7],"tags":[131,130,132,37,293,170],"class_list":{"0":"post-2369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-photography","8":"category-photos","9":"tag-black-and-white-film","10":"tag-kodak","11":"tag-minolta","12":"tag-nikon","13":"tag-photo-gear","14":"tag-portraits","16":"post-with-thumbnail","17":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t