How Many Are Truly Traditional or Latest Film Followers

[Tin Can]

What I mean is, are we like war reenactors or Shakespearean actors
THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN PICTURES

Some use the latest LF Color Film in a new camera. Great!

The more I learn of LF the more I want to be 'retro'

I have settled on 1895 give or take a lot

I like that era as technology took off, good bicycles, cars on the brink and everything else

I like to think X-Ray film is old film and we can make our own glass plates, emulation emulsions

Photography became easy for all

I like the quality of Cycle Cameras that were made for cyclists...

Then the Art, Not Art wars .....LOL

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pict/hd_pict.htm


are we doomed, I say, Doomed to repeat herstory

our muse is surely female

[Duolab123]

What I mean is, are we like war reenactors or Shakespearean actors
THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN PICTURES

Some use the latest LF Color Film in a new camera. Great!

The more I learn of LF the more I want to be 'retro'

I have settled on 1895 give or take a lot

I like that era as technology took off, good bicycles, cars on the brink and everything else

I like to think X-Ray film is old film and we can make our own glass plates, emulation emulsions

Photography became easy for all

I like the quality of Cycle Cameras that were made for cyclists...

Then the Art, Not Art wars .....LOL

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pict/hd_pict.htm


are we doomed, I say, Doomed to repeat herstory

our muse is surely female

You picked a great era. The photos that come up in your link are amazing. Cycling and photography were high tech, like Apple today in the late 19th century. The Flatiron building and "the blessed are thou among women" are stunningly beautiful.
I would include the period upto WWII. Good thread Tin Can!
Best Regards Mike

[Michael R]

It’s arbitrary and a matter of taste/interest. Wet plate, dry plate, Tri-X, TMax, everyone do what they want and enjoy.

[xkaes]

Large format -- whatever that is -- is like the rest of photography -- a UNIVERSE TO EXPLORE!!!!

[Alan9940]

I still shoot dry plates and would still be shooting Kodak Super-XX if it was still available. But then, me and dirt have a lot in common!

[Vaughn]

I am using the same recipe patented by Sir Swan in 1864 to make carbon prints. The materials have changed a little, certainly easier to get and better quality (gelatins, pigments, etc) since then, but the prints are just as lovely.
Cameras and lenses are 20th Century, though.

[Two23]

I'm pretty eclectic. I have lenses from the 1840s to the 1990s, and use many different formats of cameras. It's all fun.


Kent in SD

[John Kasaian]

Is this a they don't make 'em like they used to thread?

[r.e.]

Is this a they don't make 'em like they used to thread?

I don't know about the thread, but that isn't what the UK museum's article is about One reason that some of the photographs relate to industrial England is that the museum is in Bradford, which is portrayed in some of the photographs.

[Drew Wiley]

Are there ANY "traditional" films left except Triassic-X ?