From the course: Analog Photography: Shooting & Processing Black-and-White Film
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Exploring what film formats are available
From the course: Analog Photography: Shooting & Processing Black-and-White Film
Exploring what film formats are available
One of the things I'd like to establish early on in this course is that film is a decision making process. There's no program involved in most everything that we're going to do, so the decisions that are made in order to gain a successful result, are really dependent upon your knowledge base. It's a little bit more challenging, but I'll think you will, find it a little bit more rewarding as well. The first decision you're faced with is what format do I want to shoot? We use format in a different context when we're talking about film. It's not about preparing a card to hold new images and making sure you, you don't lose any of them, because you didn't erase everything properly. Format refers to the size and shape of the film we're using in order to capture our images. First, what you may have heard referred to before, large format film, this would start at 4 by 5 and go up. And, we pick four by five, what are we talking about? Well, it's four by five inches. The film will come in boxes…
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