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A question for the old timers.
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<blockquote data-quote="J-see" data-source="post: 363245" data-attributes="member: 31330"><p>I wasn't exactly cruising the Queen Elizabeth II when I was young so the amount of film I could carry with me was largely defined by the little money I could spend. After all, there was girls and such too.</p><p></p><p>A large part of investing more time in a shot was also defined by the inability to directly check that shot taken. You better did everything right else that film only revealed wasted effort. That's why you checked the light three times and considered different options to each shot before pressing the button. At least I did. The fact that photography back in the day wasn't sci-fi forced us.</p><p></p><p>I borrowed a Praktica of my dad, a cam that crawled here out of the good old DDR. It might not have been the best but if I'd ever shipwreck, I could crack a coconut with it too. There wasn't much high tech on it. An automatic light meter that sometimes worked but sometimes not and thus forced you to do it manually anyways. That was about it. You were forced to do effort because taking shots was like playing darts blindfolded. I still rarely check the images taken and will only see most after upload. I do miss some shots doing that but it confronts me with my limitations and learns me to put as much trust in myself and my cam as I did back in the day.</p><p></p><p>The same is true for post. What I remember most is much of it being a very boring affair. I never remember feeling excited when developing film. "Woohoo where's me shaker! This is gonna be so much fun!" Sure there was some charm to the actually "print" process but there was much more bore and repetitive labor. Don't even mention retouching.</p><p></p><p>All the options we have at our disposal might indeed influence carefulness or our investment in the shots we take but they too boost our creativity. The fact we can try anything we want and, this is best of all, go back and try something else when it didn't work out is a phenomenal improvement.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="J-see, post: 363245, member: 31330"] I wasn't exactly cruising the Queen Elizabeth II when I was young so the amount of film I could carry with me was largely defined by the little money I could spend. After all, there was girls and such too. A large part of investing more time in a shot was also defined by the inability to directly check that shot taken. You better did everything right else that film only revealed wasted effort. That's why you checked the light three times and considered different options to each shot before pressing the button. At least I did. The fact that photography back in the day wasn't sci-fi forced us. I borrowed a Praktica of my dad, a cam that crawled here out of the good old DDR. It might not have been the best but if I'd ever shipwreck, I could crack a coconut with it too. There wasn't much high tech on it. An automatic light meter that sometimes worked but sometimes not and thus forced you to do it manually anyways. That was about it. You were forced to do effort because taking shots was like playing darts blindfolded. I still rarely check the images taken and will only see most after upload. I do miss some shots doing that but it confronts me with my limitations and learns me to put as much trust in myself and my cam as I did back in the day. The same is true for post. What I remember most is much of it being a very boring affair. I never remember feeling excited when developing film. "Woohoo where's me shaker! This is gonna be so much fun!" Sure there was some charm to the actually "print" process but there was much more bore and repetitive labor. Don't even mention retouching. All the options we have at our disposal might indeed influence carefulness or our investment in the shots we take but they too boost our creativity. The fact we can try anything we want and, this is best of all, go back and try something else when it didn't work out is a phenomenal improvement. [/QUOTE]
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