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Buzzfeed Tries to Explain Film Photography to Modern Kids

Chris Gampat
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12/27/2013
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Recently, Buzzfeed decided to do a small but very well produced feature on film photography and how it differs from modern day. Indeed, they state the obvious–you didn’t use a digital camera or a phone with a camera app to capture a moment. Instead, you used a film camera, and you only had a certain number of shots before your roll of film needed to be changed.

While most of the video is true, they don’t mention instant film. When you shot instant film, you had to make sure that it was exposed properly, pull it out of the camera through rollers so that the chemicals for the development would be spread evenly throughout the image, and wait depending on conditions like the temperature.

And the fact is that many of us in the film community still do it. There is no large format digital equivalent of a good 8×10 sheet film image.

Either, the video is still very good for entertainment purposes; and can be found below the jump.

Via SLR Lounge and Buzzfeed

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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