Time to get Serious about DIY

[Tin Can]

I suggest Denise Ross work will become very popular if film falls out of production

http://www.thelightfarm.com/

Is ready for Prime time and has been for years

[BrianShaw]

If/when that happen, I’ll likely pick up a piece of chalk and start sketching.

[Tin Can]

Better make your own chalk

A lot of business is going to fade out

If/when that happen, I’ll likely pick up a piece of chalk and start sketching.

[Jody_S]

When the pandemic is finally under control, I don't think companies are going to just re-hire everyone and resume production like before, nor will consumers start buying again. We are already in a worse recession than the great depression, the pandemic is only just getting started, and it took WWII to re-start the economy then.

[John Layton]

I think that clearing a bunch of old LF film...taping the cleared sheets onto the camera's ground glass after setting up and composing, tracing over this with either a pencil, or perhaps a combo of pencil and maybe different density retouching fluids - then putting this "negative" into the enlarger to print...perhaps onto some type of DIY paper...could be really interesting!

Hmmm...Must Try This!

Edit: thinking a bit further and in the context of using film...why not, after exposing a negative, tape a cleared sheet to the groundglass and, with various densities of retouching fluid, and/or perhaps even some contrast-influencing colors, do an "in situ" negative mask?? Could do a few alternates and see what works best during printing.

Hmmm...Must Try This Also!!

[Jody_S]

I currently have enough film in all formats from 35mm to 16x20 that I can carry on as usual for at least 5 years at my current rate. And I have enough chemicals to mix my own B&W chemistry if need be. What to do after that? I'll worry about it then. There will still be film available somewhere, if there are still photographers wanting to shoot film. Worst case, I'll start using my phone like everyone else.

[Jim Noel]

Statements like these don't bother me. And I don't expect to start coating my own emulsions. For at least 50 years I have consistently bought film in large quantities.
At the rate I am currently making negatives,I think I probably have enough film of various sizes to last my lifetime. As I told my wife when I ordered 200 sheets of x-ray ilm to add to my stash, "I expect to die with film in the freezer."

[LabRat]

Film will go the route of the LP...

Remember the reports of the LP's demise???

Though if x-ray units go totally digital, there might be less coating lines out there that make photo film on the side...

Film's death was predicted long ago, but here we are in the future...

Steve K

[joem]

When young I scrimped and saved for photo stuff and it may happen again, and I'm lost for the anoligy but at some point someone may realise that it doesn't take a conglomerate to produce film and paper. Thanks Denise

[Tin Can]

Timbuk 3 - The Future's So Bright