Put down the phone, pick up the film: Old-school cameras making a comeback | CBC News

McBain Camera never stopped selling the cameras and rolls of film since the Alberta shop opened its doors in 1949, but enthusiasm cratered from about 2007 to 2019.

Rene Rodrigue of McBain Camera shows off one of the film cameras for sale at the store in Edmonton. He says the price of such cameras has gone way up as their popularity rose in the past few years. "It's like talking about wine and coffee. You wind up with varietals and different display techniques," Rodrigue said as points to shelves showing about a dozen different types of film canisters.Keeping the art of film photography alive, one snap at a timeYou can't develop a roll of film at the grocery store these days, so a group of shutterbugs in St. John's are building a community darkroom. They call their group, "Dark NL".

Flic Film is based in Longview, Alta., a village of about 300 people located in a ranching area with mountain views about 65 kilometres south of Calgary.

.CBCNL How did this Alberta story qualify as a local story? By including the zachgoudie video piece? Without any credit!! Pretty lazy work on both accounts

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Riveting reporting!

Until you go develop a roll and it costs you $30 for 24 prints…add in the cost of the film. Sure is fun the first few times…but it’s expensive.

I think film camera will have a renaissance because of AI. Photoshop was already tricky, but I think AI is going to lead to a world where we can’t believe the validity/truth of an image or video if it’s not film

What is old is always new again….especially if someone reinvents it. Look at Vinyl records….now they sell them as a premium item….so this actually does not surprise me. They will probably charge $50 for a film canister in the near future….all it needs is marketing

'some people' yes. If you like to mess with chemicals, scratched, dusty and moldy celluloid, and waste your homespace with storage boxes, digitize them with an expensive scanner, or spent money on troublesome printers or wait for print services, then by all means go for it.

My eyes hate pixels.

Most of the digital photos shot today will not exist 100 years from now. Film is different.

Cool.

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