Is Film Dead?

I get asked this question several times a year. The answer is almost yes…Sadly. I like to compare film and digital photography to Acrylic and Oil painting. They are the same art medium; however they have a much different feel. A lot of digital Fuji cameras will allow you to choose one of their films as a color profile. If you were fortunate enough to shoot film, most likely you can look at a print and tell the difference. Recently on Maui film developers are becoming hard to find. Costco and Long’s Drugs stopped developing film at the store level. The Longs Drugs next to the Kihei store send their film to the mainland to be developed. The death will be when you can’t get it developed conveniently. Polaroid had an interesting problem when they ran out of the raw materials. Polaroid has such a strong cult following that they were able to bring it back. You can watch their story unfold on Netlflix by watching the documentary “Time Zero”.