Hello, I thought that this might be the best place to post this, and I apologize for the ranting attitude.
I read on the Kodachrome Wikipedia article that former Kodak CMO Jeffery Hayzlett's mission while at Kodak was to make film a thing of the past. All I could think of when I read that was (every derogatory expletive in the book). My aunt told me at Christmas that film needs to disappear. I've also heard this from several other people who think it's odd that I still shoot film.
I get so upset every time I hear someone say "Film needs to disappear!" Have people forgotten that the best movies/the most iconic pictures were all shot on film? I heard a terrifying story from my uncle who shot a picture of his friend's young daughter with his film camera and then the kid thought that she would get to see a digital image in the camera. Is this the terrible, sterile, mediocre world of the 21st century that's to come?
Hearing "Film needs to disappear!" makes me want to take a baseball bat to every digital camera I see (sometimes I even want to turn on my lovely K-x, but I would regret having then thrown away $500). I really hope that film doesn't die because of 100% digital Philistinery. (Yes, that's right, I call 100% digital people Philistines). Film has declined because people are cheapskates. There are Philistine jerks that want film to disappear all in the name of "progress" and profit, like Jeffery Hayzlett.
If film were to disappear, it would be like my childhood vanishing right before my eyes. Sometimes I just hate the 21st century.
Grr… I needed to vent that.