Film is making a comeback. It has been for some time. Many vintage cameras are fetching prices greater than their initial cost. Turns out, my Hasselblad was a very good investment. This week I saw some upset online over Kodak raising the prices of their film stocks. Outrage ensued. Film is becoming a plaything of the privileged. With 36 frames in a roll for $16 and about $22 for processing, scanning and sleeving, you’re looking at a little over a dollar per shot. That adds up. You think about that as you compose. On a commercial shoot I can blast through upwards of 10,000 frames per day of shooting. That’s not a typo. And yes, it’s excessive. But that’s how things are shaking out right now. There is very little monetary penalty for that kind of excess. Just my time on the back end with days of editing.

From what I can gather, the price hike Kodak is proposing is about 15%. Personally, I can’t really complain about that. Film is a luxury. Another $2.50 isn’t going to break the bank. And it’s probably the way of the future. I’m willing to bet that all the film we used to enjoy as photographers, was primarily subsidized by the motion picture industry. Miles and miles of film stock were shot every day. Hardly anyone shoots movies or TV on film anymore. A couple years back HBO’s season two of Euphoria was shot entirely on film. They had to get Kodak to recreate and produce a specific film stock to get it done. Read about it here,(https://www.kodak.com/en/motion/blog-post/euphoria) pretty interesting. But when…

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This week’s image gallery is a selection of fairly random, favorite analog images from the last few years. Film, Tintype and Polaroid.