Analogue Photography Trial 3

-Vardhan Mittal

"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and
have a pocket full of unexposed film."

-Robert Adams

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ANALOGUE 1

PHOTOGRAPHY

John Smith

ith the advent available, 35mm. The
name itself is somewhat
Wof the digital a misnomer as the actual
age in the world, size of the frame is
one might ask the curious 24mm x 36mm.
question, "How did photos
work, like 80 years ago?" As Paul Simon put it, "They

If you go through the give us those nice bright
photos taken by your
parents and grandparents, colours. They give us the
you might notice a sense
of soft and warm greens of summer." There
memories being strung
together in the form of is a common notion today
pieces of celluloid-called
film. that film has "better" or
In most households, film
or "reel" used to be the more "vibrant" colours
most economical kind
than the digital

equivalent. While that may

not be completely true as

anything coming out of a

Nikon sensor is more

vibrant than Kodak Portra,

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Traditional Light -Vardhan Mittal

-Vardhan Mittal

I understand their point of film photograph that
view when comparing
something like Fujifilm speaks to you. The grain,
Velvia 50 and an unedited
RAW file from a modern the emotions, the
digital camera-there is
just something about a contrast. Nothing could be

so perfectly imperfect.

Nothing could be as

tangable as celluloid and

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nothing can be as fun as 35mm film. Moon
shooting film.
landings? Specially made

Many camera and Kodak Medium Format

software companies have emulsions. FIlm is

tried to cash-in on this everywhere. All

hispter-like popularity of throughout modern

film. VSCO's film history.

simulations are on the tips Honestly speaking, I am
now running out of words
of every retro to write. This was just a
test template made in
photograpehr's tongue. Canva and this text was
just supposed to fill the
Heck, Fujifilm has the pages.
Writing team, please do a
simulations built into their good job of writing the
articles. Clix is counting
cameras themselves. With on you. I am counting on
you. It should not be any
the push of a button and less than what our friends
over in Himachal Pradesh
a tap on the screen, you are putting out.

could mimic almost any

film made by Fuji in the

past 50 years.

Historically, film has had a

crucial role to play when it

comes to capturing

watershed moments.

Kennedy assassination?

Super 8 film. D-day?

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