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Edelira Longinotti
When it was the only medium for photography film was vital. Historically it produced some good results, and I worked with it, and loved it for a decade or so.
Now it is outrageously expensive both to buy and to process. Availability has become Disability, and it has requirements.
Digital film scanners produce sub-standard results compared to a darkroom, enlarger, and chemicals, because a scanned slide or neg is rendered in 3D with an increase in the visibility of the grain as the moving lamp casts shadows of every bit of chemical solid stuck in the emulsion.
If you have the facilities to develop & print your films and colour neg & slide film yourself, good on ya, but a colleague had to spend a lot of money years ago & thermostatically control each tank to within half a degree centigrade to get good results in a space as big as a garage. And monochrome can be done by you in your blacked out bathroom, hmm!
And so I prefer a far better original digital file & workflow.
I haven't used film anymore since I bought my first digital camera, but I have fond memories on the processes around using film. Two family friends (more my dad's age, so quite some in photography) had darkrooms. Developing the film in a Paterson tank was fun already. But really special were the evenings in the darkroom. It was a very laborious process. After a full evening we had a handful good prints. So I would never go back to that I think, looking at how much easier digital is. But the sense of exitement will always be with me in my memory.
Yes, dust - the bane of film users. I have several ways I eliminate dust as I also do full-scale darkroom developing and wet printing in addition to digital scanning and printing. A good basic bulb blower helps - these can be pretty inexpensive. If someone is drying film be sure to use Photoflo and dry the film in the bathroom shower. I actually put my reels in an an inexpensive salad spinner before hanging as it gets most of the residual water off quickly - less to stick to, and no squeegee needed. A step up from a bulb blower is a can of compressed air like Dust Off, but one has to be careful not to tip the can and get any liquid on the negs. Putting negatives in glasesine negative sleeves after the film is fully dry keeps negatives dust free for decades - I have (literally) thousands of negatives stored that way since the early 70's. If scanning it is best to have a scanner with a Digital Ice feature that eliminates the majority of remaining dust and minimizes spotting in post.
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