27 Mar
The 10 ages of film
- Wow, you mean this plastic roll is already coated with Albumen! Way to go. Oops the house has caught fire…
- OK, pour turn on the lights and pour that liquid in and tap it on the workbench. Now hang it from a clothes peg and let it accumulate lots of dust, so you can spend 3 hours spotting every print.
- Hey, if I pull this bit off I can watch the picture develop in front of my eyes. Theres goop all over my fingers and the front of my shirt and the roller won’t go back in.
- Nah, those digital cameras will never have enough pixels, looks like a crap video picture, pass me the Velvia.
- On the other hand this EOS 10D is quite good, how to I upsize this slightly grey fuzzy looking image so its big enough to submit to a stock library. Half an hour later its been sharpened to f!@k and re-colourised and almost looks usable… Great.
- I think my medium format back is sharper than 5×4 so go and stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
- Digital is so passe, I’ve gone back to film, bought an old Hassy (they can be had for pennies on Ebay).
- Wheres my film (sob). At least there are fifteen outdated boxes crammed in at the back of the fridge covered in solidified yoghurt residue.
- Ah well, 65 megapixels will have to do
- Someone put a bloody video camera inside my camera. I’m getting confused.






