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Taking Pictures the Hard Way

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Re: Taking Pictures the Hard Way

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In a benign example of the YouTube algorithm's radicalizing influence, in a little over two years, I went from watching videos about developing film at home to following some large format photographers' channels and purchasing a large format film camera. There actually isn't that much difference to digital if you're primarily concerned with the end result, but the experience of taking the photos couldn't be more unal…

> In the end, I only took one and I won't know how it turned out until I develop it next weekend.

Did you take that one because you felt pressure to take a photo?

The old 8GB memory card I use is enough for about 300 raw files.

I frequently go on a hike, and not-infrequently don't take any photos even though I carried camera equipment with me.

otoh if I take 100 I won't know how they turned out until I process the raw files, sometime in the coming months. (I do move them to a computer and rename them asap to limit accidental loss.)

There's something very freeing about having the space to experiment and learn and play, at minimal expense.

Re: Taking Pictures the Hard Way

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post #33

In a benign example of the YouTube algorithm's radicalizing influence, in a little over two years, I went from watching videos about developing film at home to following some large format photographers' channels and purchasing a large format film camera. There actually isn't that much difference to digital if you're primarily concerned with the end result, but the experience of taking the photos couldn't be more unal…

> In the end, I only took one and I won't know how it turned out until I develop it next weekend. Did you take that one because you felt pressure to take a photo? The old 8GB memory card I use is enough for about 300 raw files. I frequently go on a hike, and not-infrequently don't take any photos even though I carried camera equipment with me. otoh if I take 100 I won't know how they turned out until I process the ra…

> rename them asap to limit accidental loss

That's to say, I have a script which simply renames the files

    YYYYMMDD-SEQUENCE_NUMBER
where YYYYMMDD is the day the rename was done.
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