Photography has quickly evolved from film to digital well nearly all digital and made photography so simple that at last weekends wedding I noticed the grooms grandmother going crazy taking photos on her iPad. The statistics of photographs taken this year and last have overtaken the amount of photographs taken over the past 100 years. Crazy isn't it?.
So if you take a picture today don't be surprised if its not seen by anyone because it is just been added to the ever expanding abyss of every other photograph taken around the world flooding the internet.
So what do you do as a photographer to get noticed with all the photographs added to that ever expanding pile. Well you shoot film. Have you seen the Instagram accounts that have separated themselves from the every other mundane photographer on the internet. I think its clever or what the hipsters would say "that's hip". lol Well probably not.
The key is to show content that is different from every other photographer and I have always said photography is 50 percent the camera and 50 percent the editing.
Everyday a new person decides to get into the world of photography and 99% of the time that would be with a digital camera. But for the past few years I have seen a growing demand of photographers turning to film and people forget that those camera's made in the 80's are no longer made and for every 1 person snapping up an older film camera those thinking of shooting film will no doubt miss out. With less film cameras that means less photographers controlling that unique look and that unique look could land you a photography gig over the others not shooting film. The other eliminating factor many film camera's have been shelved and or thrown out.
The resurgence in film use has seen new rolls of film become available there definitely will be a few lucky photographers but unfortunately many will miss out. It wasn't long ago 2005 when there was an influx of people selling off their camera's on eBay. Those keen to buy a film camera today will hate to hear that Canon film camera's were so cheap they had nearly become throw away items. Even lenses in the Canon FD range were found at $20. Each week I thought I was saving some of the old Canon cameras and was saddened to see such beautiful cameras go to the the cheap pile I wanted to save them all. I did get a few but not as many as one photographer the other day said they had 75. Now that's many and nearly a sickness or is it called hording. Over 10 years I accumulated about 10 Canon film camera's and they are becoming rarer and more expensive everyday.
Have you noticed the increase in photographers uploading beautiful film photographs onto Instagram? And if so have you asked them what Camera they are using?
The best deal I managed to pick up was a Vietnam Photojournalist Canon FT-QL film camera accompanied with a beautiful Etsumi black leather case. Items included were three Vietnam Saigon film holders 50mm lens and the ad was described as a deceased estate sale and all must go. I purchased it for under $100. Today something like this is near impossible to find.
What do you think this camera situation will be by 2020? My thoughts are if Canon or Nikon fire up the old film camera machines and produce a few collectable anniversary editions would be fantastic but until then I can only dream of such a dream.
Regards,
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