I'm beginning to pull stock images from old film negatives and slides. Currently, I'm up to 300+ images heading towards the film scanner - a chore that I'm really not looking forward to. I try and keep the coolscan running all day when I work, switching over to change film every 5 - 10 minutes. This works fine, but for upwards of a few hundred images, this can be pain staking as well as a mental chore to keep remembering to go back and change film. At least the old darkroom days are over...
I spent some time this weekend speaking with another photographer about the changing landscape of photography - the fact that digital has made creating images much more obtainable for the general public. I think 'democratization' of photography has taken place; before only people willing to drop the $$ and time could break into the world of still photography. Although amateur's have always been present within photography, the cost of film, processing and color printing has always been a deterrent towards advancing visual complexity and technical ability wihthin traditional photographic boundaries. To put it simply - it cost way less to take 1000 images now then before, thus upping the potential to 'get better'. Pros used to be the only people that could burn through 20 - 30 rolls of slide film. Now, with a reusable storage card, some batteries and a place to preview an image, a fairly high quality print can be obtained at Target for roughly 6 bucks...
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