Hello, internet friends! Today I’m going to talk about film photography. No, not taking pictures of movies, but analogue photography.
I’ve been really getting into film photography lately, and I find myself leaving my expensive DSLR camera at home more often, and instead taking my mother’s 20-year-old camera. I’ve found that film cameras simply create an effect that can’t be achieved with an Instagram filter on your phone. If you’re a beginner, I have a handy cheat sheet for you right here. https://www.zippi.co.uk/thestudio/manual-photographers-cheat-sheet-infographic/
Now that you have learned how to take pictures, I decided to take a look at the history of film photography.
After some research, I found out that there were several attempts at making film, apparently people used silver-plated copper sheets and even leather! These were covered with light-sensitive chemicals. Around the middle of the nineteenth century however, glass plates became standard because transparent plastic was too expensive. In 1885 the first flexible film was made! It was on paper though, not on plastic. About three years later plastic was first used, only the plasic was highly flammable, so Kodak replaced it by a safer version in 1908. This was found to still be quite dangerous; and it was in 1958 when ‘safe film’ was perfected.
That’s the story of how film was created. Of course colour film still had to be invented, but that’s a story for another time.
Thankyou for reading this post, and I hope you enjoyed it.
Xo, Isla
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