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Buy A Roll Of Film

Field Photography
Went Obsolete 2007-ish
Made Obsolete By Prevalence of digital cameras over film-replacables
Knowledge Assumed Film speed/exposure levels
When useful When you need to take more pictures

Go into a convenience, grocery, drug, or photography store, select the type of film, number of exposures, and pay for it!

Note, those over 20 or so may still do this for a while, but the younger set probably never will.

— I disagree - it's true that this skill is no longer common, but professional photographers still use film. Their problem with digital film is that it doesn't scale - you can't blow up an image very much without getting pixelation. —- Yes you can, the films are not infitite resolution; modern digical cameras have a far higher resolution than the grain on film. Enlarging a film photo is not different from enlarging a digital photo and adding radial blur to the result; both are blurry, but film grains aren't just as uniform as the digital image pixel grid.

– Additional- the future of film is almost guaranteed in fine art photography. The earliest and most “primitive” chemical photo technologies are far from lost and are regularly taught at the college level. Images made through wet photography are demonstrating a trend toward increasing value as digital becomes the norm for the vast majority of photographers.

— I don't think this is anywhere near obsolete, and may never be. I'm not sure why its here. I agree with the two additions above.

 
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