Undeveloped Film from a Soldier in WWII Discovered and Processed

Re:Undeveloped Film from a Soldier in WWII Discovered and Pr... by sharkweek on Saturday January 17, 2015 @02:41PM (#8905286)

I know this sounds a bit "get off my lawn" even for only being in my late 20s, but I REALLY enjoyed darkroom time in high school photography classes and photography personally lost some of its magic to me when I switched. I was a senior just as digital was making its moves, but nothing was quite as satisfying as the trials and tribulations of meticulously processing film in that tiny little room.

Nothing quite as cool as dropping what seemed like a blank piece of paper into some chemicals and watching it transition into an actual photograph.

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Re:Undeveloped Film from a Soldier in WWII Discovered and Pr... by ghaff on Sunday January 18, 2015 @09:54AM (#8907649)

Yeah, on the other hand, I never had easy access to a good darkroom after leaving school and pretty much ended up shooting color slides for a number of years--which meant, in practice, that I pretty much just shot slides on some vacations.

The combination of digital photography and the ease of sharing really got me back into doing photography as a more routine thing. And the capabilities of modern digital gear are just so amazing. I still remember all the chemical manipulations I would go through to get decent results from B&W at ISO 1600 or maybe a little faster. Today, I can easily surpass that in color with the twist of a dial.

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Re:Undeveloped Film from a Soldier in WWII Discovered and Pr... by aaronbrethorst on Sunday January 18, 2015 @04:57AM (#8907154)

I'm 32, re-discovered film photography only about 12 months ago, and almost exclusively shoot film today. You should check out a website I built a couple months ago that has a fairly extensive list of public darkrooms and photo labs that can still process film: http://www.ishootfilm.org/businesses.

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Re:Undeveloped Film from a Soldier in WWII Discovered and Pr... by 59nadir on Monday January 19, 2015 @03:40AM (#8910997)

You know no one is disallowing you from using whichever tools and methods you want, right? Just as people are welcome to write assembler code, you are allowed to go back to oldschool photography. There is a reason, however, people generally will move on to more convenient things.

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