Years from today when technology really catches up to the quality of an 8×10 drum scan (we’re talking Hubble telescope technology for consumers) film will find a place in history along side of the many brilliant early mediums of photography… daguerreotype, wet-plate, ambrotype, platimum palladium, gum bichromate, cyanotype, chrysotype, van dyke, ambrotype, and emulsified whatever. I think film might be called ‘mylar film,’ just an historical guess. And whatever it is called, it will find it’s place among these recording and print mediums as an art medium. These oldies are already resurging as art mediums as cataloged in Lyle Rexer’s “Photography’s Antiquarian Avant Garde: The New Wave in Old Processes.”

Until then, I’ll settle back for hours upon hours of post-production as I edit every speck of dust from that 350mb scan, happily toiling in the medium of film.