25.6.12

"Just When You Got Digital Technology, Film Is Back"

This is the title of the article Jenna Wortham published on NY Times . Actually, good news to us and for raising  film-awareness and (re)popularity among people. Yes, but what I found disturbing to me, was the fact that she refers to the "imperfections" of film. "The pictures are rarely perfect", she also states. Any medium has its own imperfections (digital too, for that matter), that's a fact of life. Well, even vacuum tubes have their inherent imperfections-but it's for these very imperfections people still use them to amplify jazz music after all....What I find concerning it's that the majority of people obviously forgot so much about how film looks, behaves etc. But things look promising (again). And there's only one cure to this: buying and shooting film.

silver regards
Mitja

2 comments:

  1. very encouraging news indeed! and I like your "silver regards" :)

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  2. JEAN PIERRE25/6/12 22:14

    EVERY IMPERFECTION IS WHAT GIVES LIVE AND BLOOD TO ART
    DIGITAL IS A COLD CLINICAL APROXIMATION OF REALITY THAT HAS MORE TO DO WITH VIDEO THAN WITH ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY HISTORY;
    SO LET'S GO SHOOTING SOME MORE ROLLS

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