Fading to black ROCHESTER, N.Y. — At Image City Photography Gallery, Gary Thompson delights in pointing out qualities of light, contrast and clarity in one of his best-selling prints — a winter-sunset view of Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan peak shot with a hefty Pentax film camera he bought in 1999 for $1,700.
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A decade-long nose-dive in photographic film sales signals a technology icon’s fade-out ROCHESTER, N.Y. – At Image City Photography Gallery, Gary Thompson delights in pointing out qualities of light, contrast and clarity in one of his best-selling prints — a winter-sunset view of Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan peak shot with a hefty Pentax film [...]
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Fading film still has fans: Some artists, photographers value film’s qualities, but it won’t be around long ROCHESTER, N.Y. — At Image City Photography Gallery, Gary Thompson delights in pointing out qualities of light, contrast and clarity in one of his best-selling prints — a winter-sunset view of Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan peak shot [...]
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End is nigh for traditional film cameras At the turn of the 21st century, Americans were buying close to a billion rolls of film per year. This year, they might buy a mere 20 million. How much longer can photographic film hold on? At Image City Photography Gallery, Gary Thompson delights in pointing out qualities [...]
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