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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Why I love film cameras, part seven

This is one of the most remarkable uses of online image hosting space you will ever see. As of right now, this fellow has 174,460 images here, seemingly without any culling or selectivity--it the shot came out, it's here. Unbelievable. I discovered this site in late 2004 when the photographer posted the following on a photography discussion board that "My shutter finally died. After 3 months and 5 days and 119,457 photos." Just unbelievable. At that time he had only 54,473 photos online.

I'm not going to bother computing how much it would cost to take this many images with film. A lot. To some, this might show an advantage of digital, but I don't agree. This is the apotheosis of scattershot, unthinking photography. Film forces you to learn a thing or two precisely because you don't have an unlimited number of free shots. It's human nature that we learn better when there is a some cost to not learning. If failure has no cost, there is no reason to avoid failure. I don't mean to suggest that this particular photographer is trying for anything more than rote documentation, but the point holds generally.

Oh, did I mention that all of these photos are of POMERANIANS?

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