{"id":141,"date":"2004-06-28T10:27:52","date_gmt":"2004-06-28T18:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=141"},"modified":"2004-06-28T10:27:52","modified_gmt":"2004-06-28T18:27:52","slug":"139-film-canisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"#139 :: Film canisters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.factoidlabs.com\/heavy\/archives\/2004\/06\/062804.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.factoidlabs.com\/heavy\/archives\/2004\/06\/062804.html', <a href=\"http:\/\/buyviagra100mg.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">sickness<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/cialisdiscount.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">mind<\/a> &#8216;popup&#8217;, <a href=\"http:\/\/viagragenericonline.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">cure<\/a> &#8216;width=500,height=500,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#8217;); return false&#8221;><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.factoidlabs.com\/heavy\/archives\/2004\/06\/062804-thumb.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>The act of capturing light is intoxicating. Next to the seemingly rational conversion of images to pixels by the average digital camera, shooting on film verges on sorcery. I&#8217;ve shot with just about every still medium available &#8211; black and white, color, infrared, ultraviolet, Fuji, Ilford, Agfa, Kodak, noname, 35mm, 126, 127, 2&frac14;x2&frac14;, 6cmx7cm, 4x5in, 5x7in, 8x10in, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factoidlabs.com\/heavy\/archives\/000135.html\">Polaroid SX-70<\/a>, stereo &#8211; and the potential and power of exposed undeveloped film still amaze me. I&#8217;ve coiled rollfilm onto reels, dipped sheets into tanks and dropped it off at the drugstore &#8211; rolls upon countless, processed rolls of it fill my negative binders. I&#8217;ve lost thousands of frames more  &#8211; images that escaped back into the light when a dropped cartridge broke, melted when it went overboard, fogged beyond use in an airport scanner. An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ap.org\">AP<\/a> photog taught me how to tear these little cartridges open with my bare hands in the darkroom and whip the film onto a reel in about 30 seconds. And he&#8217;s probably jumped on to surf the digital wave that will leave all this behind in a backwash of colored dots that can&#8217;t quite approximate the alchemy of an image on film. I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s on these two. Yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}