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Our marketing manager, Jennifer, came up with a good suggestion for me - that I should use my experience to teach people how to shoot film today. But the thought of subjecting a roomful of victims to me talking for four hours was too cruel...so I've decided to do it in a dedicated series of posts here in the column; The Analog Line.
It'll be spread out over a fair while to allow people to recover their senses from one episode to another. Also to give them time to do their own investigations and experiments. Like digital photography, analog photography thrives on people getting curious and poking something to see what it does. In the case of some darkroom work this can result in the formation of poison gas and/or a two week asthma attack. There'll be warnings about this later...
The series will be focused on analog that you could do right now - with some view back to previous practice. But it can't be too nostalgic because no-one can be totally retro without losing touch with reality. I know because I've tried, and eventually you creep yourself out. I've settled for keeping a wardrobe full of clothing that the op shops won't take - because it means I might as well wear them*. And the same can be done with analog photography.
Note that Camera Electronic has always supported any form of photography going - and we still can supply some analog material. Film, paper, chemicals, and developing tanks were always there when I was behind the counter and there was a steady sale for them. Things has changed in the camera/lens/computer/printer side of photography and also in the analog side - but there is still something to learn by doing it.
Those of the readers who are as old as I will know most of the stuff already - indeed they'll know a great deal more than I do about lots of things. But now some of the new people might benefit from knowing it as well - and in this case they are going to have to know what they can do now with what is available. No good me telling them to go out and buy a packet of Gevaert Rapid glass plates for a new Ermanox. It would make a good practical joke for April 1st but that's my birthday and I don't want to make anyone mad - they might forget to give me a present.
So watch for the Analog Line. It'll travel to various destinations.
* The contents of my wardrobe are not so much 'retro' as 'ratro'...
