Why color film today?
Well understood the possible advantages of color film compared to digital. Read from Post# 50 and forward:
https://www.largeformatphotography.i...light=demosaic
Hobby color film ok, question becomes again why when the color image becomes an expression of fantasy instead of accurate/precise and correct color rendition, contrast, saturation and LOTs more involved with color images. How "good" was that Agfachrome color image processed at home?
At this point in time what is defined is a good color image, who is decided and judges what is good color or good enough color?
The requirements to achieve excellence in color images is more than what most would want to do/try/know. If color film is scanned into a digital film, not convinced this is the ideal hybrid process a it would incur problems from both digital and analog film process.. resulting in a "different" color image in place of trying to meet a standard reference of color image excellence.
Kinda like folks doing alternative process images ~just to be different~
Yet, different alone does not constitute image excellence.
The bigger picture has more to do with the many hundreds of millions of digital images up-loaded to the web daily. This reality tends to discount and dilute the value of images in the eyes of the beholder in a similar way as want to believe propaganda.
Hobby color film is ok, question is will the manufactures of photochemical image making support this or simply stop and move on to another business that is viable? Fact is, color film might disappear regardless of what the hobbyist market demands.. Just like Fuji Velvia.
There are many good reasons to do B&W sheet film images. Consider why this is true?
Bernice
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