Photography

Analog photography

Film photography, or classical photography, also known by the retronym analog photography, is a term usually applied to photography that uses chemical processes to capture an image, typically on paper, gelatin film, or a hard plate. These processes were the only methods available to photographers for more than a century prior to the invention of digital photography, which uses electronic sensors to record images to digital media. Analog electronic photography was sometimes used in the late 20th century but soon died out. Photographic films utilize silver halide crystals suspended in an emulsion, which, when exposed to light, record a latent image, which is then processed, making it visible and insensitive to light. Despite a steep decline in popularity since the advent of digital photography, film photography has seen a limited resurgence due, in part, to social media and the ubiquity of digital cameras. With the renewed interest in traditional photography, new organizations (Film Is Not Dead, Lomography) were established and new lines of products helped to perpetuate film photography. In 2017 B&H Photo & Video stated that film sales were increasing by 5% each year in the recent past.

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• ▸Eolo Perfido
• ▸A Woman Drinking with Two Men
• ▸Hasselblad

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