{"id":530,"date":"2009-12-02T23:13:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T03:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=530"},"modified":"2025-04-17T11:19:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:19:26","slug":"film-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2009\/12\/02\/film-photography.html","title":{"rendered":"Film Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have had a Minolta Maxxum 7000 Film SLR in my clutches for about 5 months<\/a>. It is not my walking-around camera, but it could be.<\/p>\n

There is more where this came from<\/a> but I just scanned (from negatives) some shots from recent months.<\/p>\n

\"Brooklyn\"<\/a>

Brooklyn<\/p><\/div>\n

Film photos are different from digital. Duh. That should go without saying but I think it merits mention after the abrupt evaporation of film photography from general use. It may be the the most rapid disappearance of a format since the DVD erased VHS tapes from stores and shelves everywhere.<\/p>\n

\"Calvary<\/a>

Calvary Cemetery<\/p><\/div>\n

Film has a smoky ruggedness about it, and I for one welcome the dust and artifacts that litter some of these scans. To me the journey from lens to photo should not be so obvious as digital makes it seem. Speckles of noisy detritus express how a picture should<\/em> be polluted by its travels from the photographer’s eyes to its presentation. I think digital photos have a way of turning reality into hyper-reality, exposing details no human would ever notice, while film represents images closer to the way human beings see them.<\/p>\n

\"Calvary<\/a>

Calvary Cemetery<\/p><\/div>\n

I don’t know if I should say this, but any time I carry this camera out I think I should try to do what K. might have done with it. There is no way to know what that might have been. K. would be doing digital now but I imagine she would have kept film in her repertoire. The first Mandee sign picture derives from this sign<\/a>. One of K.’s pictures I liked best was of a neon-lit sign.<\/p>\n

\"Bunny<\/a>

Bunny Down<\/p><\/div>\n

Click for more of my Minolta Maxxum 7000 Film SLR photos<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have had a Minolta Maxxum 7000 Film SLR in my clutches for about 5 months. It is not my walking-around camera, but it could be. There is more where this came from but I just scanned (from negatives) some shots from recent months. Film photos are different from digital. Duh. That should go without […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-181-2","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-8y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46941,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/46941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}