In my last monthly newsletter, I mentioned a few cameras being tested and sent a lot of film out to the lab. In the past week or so, it's all come back around the same time!
Lab scan delivery day is the best day!
So I thought today I’d share with you lovely people some of the results earlier than they would be shared with everyone.
I tend to batch create Youtube videos now except for the news series, so the weekly video schedule is now out to October! I didn’t want to wait that long to share these results.
I’ll dot my favorite images that came back from the lab in the middle of a discussion on a related topic, whether or not using film has any impact on my patience.
I’ve been developing a lot at home and have gotten used to being able to have results within a couple of hours of shooting.
Waiting a couple of weeks for the lab felt like an eternity!!
As you might hear around the film community or anyone talking about film for that matter, people often say:
film slows me down…
I’m sorry if reading that phrase just made you cringe…
Recently, it seems a few folks are over this common saying.
Not only over it, but strongly disagree with it.
I’m interested to know, what do you think? Does Film Photography make us more or less patient? Does it slow you down?
Developing Patience with Film Photography - Myth or Truth?
I don’t think I’ve gotten more patient with film photography. It seems like each time I send it to the lab, I want it earlier.
Perhaps this comes from developing at home more often than before. Or maybe I’ve got a video that I’m excited about finishing and I can’t until I get the film back. Or a camera I want to use but I need to know if it works okay before any more film is eaten by it.
Or it’s the influence of using my digital cameras for work and sometimes play.
Shooting digital though for personal reasons, sometimes I don’t even look at the images for days or weeks. They sit on the SD card or my computer. Sometimes I forget I haven’t backed them up yet and reformat my memory cards. Oooops!
I wouldn’t remember what I lost though...
Taking images on my phone, I forget about them. I forget I can edit them and they turn out nicer than I think.
No way this would happen with film at the moment.
Is it the cost associated with each roll? The value we place on the images due to the cost incurred for each shot?
With film, my mind tracks everything. Almost every single shot, I’d remember taking if I lost the roll.
If I see the lab email, everything is getting dropped until I download that folder, browse through everything a few times, and then safely back up in a few different places.
Developed film is scanned as soon as it's dry. Those scans are backed up and I immediately put them somewhere to do something with soonish.
While my digital files sit there, waiting.
I think shooting film makes me more impatient. It doesn’t slow me down. It makes me want to shoot more, and more, and more. I can’t consume it fast enough!
Is it that a value is placed on the images because they are limited?
Is it that I try harder to get better compositions so I’m more excited about the results?
Or am I turning into a film junkie?
Certainly sounds like it reading this back to myself!
Not being able to have something makes us want it more generally speaking…forbidden fruit, forbidden love, film photography…it’s all the same really. ;p
It makes me speed up, not slow down.
Impatient and restless, definitely not more patient.
What about you?
XOXO
Molly
p.s. THANK YOU for being here and supporting this space and channel. It means I can keep going both financially but also spirit-wise having the support and encouragement that makes a big difference.
Some things that are coming soon:
Beta testing review of the ALFIE Cameras TYCH - a new half frame 35mm camera
A second zine project!
Exploring 110 Photography
+more :)
See you soon!