Here’s everything you ever wanted to know about how Kodak film is made and how it fathered the digital look.
Like many of your annoying friends on Instagram, I’m guilty of taking on “analog photography” as a hobby during the most locked-down days of the pandemic. Despite having a background in video production and having gone to film school, I had never actually done any project whatsoever with actual film stock.
(Sadly, the grade before me at film school was the last to take a 16mm workshop, as our cohort was the first to only work strictly with digital.)
However, while I do apologize for the out-of-focus and poorly composed first images, which I scanned and developed and of course immediately posted to Instagram, I do not apologize for wanting to learn more about how film actually works.
And while that will stay an ongoing quest (until I get bored or my social media friends all unfollow me), it’s unlocked a new fascination for learning everything one can about how film stocks are made—and what lessons we can learn for our own film and video projects by exploring how they work.
Author: Jourdan Aldredge
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
