a kodak moment

i miss film.

i miss loading film. i miss velvia 100. i miss real film grain. i miss counting rolls. i miss folding up blurry, sticky polaroids to find a good crop when the assistant can’t find the croppers. i miss the excitement of when the metro guy arrives back with the test rolls (and i miss “anything to go back?”). i miss the perspective of 24 hours of separation you get before you edit shots. i miss everyone hunched over a lightbox. i miss digging in my bag for the schneider lupe that my first art director gave me before i went off to my first shoot. i miss ripping the paper off a chinagraph. i miss the mistakes, i miss the problems, i miss the results. r.i.p. film.

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