Design Practice 2: What is Good? - Analog

I also looked at what analogue photography was to get a better understanding of what my good is. It was interesting to read that it is used as a title in reference to a group of like minded people who like exploring traditional photographic practices that there is a younger generation that have become interested as well increase sales. This could be an audience in which I work towards as there already is an interest. Polaroid is something that I will have to look into more and the stop of it's production due to digital. It mentioned the Impossible Project which is trying to keep the analogue camera alive so I plan to look into this further to find out more about it and if it could be relevant to me.

Analog photography

 

 

Analog Photographic film - 1980's-1990's years

Analog photography is a commonly used term for photography  that uses a progressively changing recording medium, which may be either chemical process  based (e.g., photographic film  or plate ) or electronic  (e.g., vidicon  or CCD  sensor). Through common use this term has come to mean anything that is "not digital" despite some amount of controversy that the use of film isn't a true "analog" process. ^[1]  [2] 

In a film camera that uses the gelatin-silver process , light falling upon photographic emulsions  containing silver halides  is recorded as a latent image . The latent image is subjected to photographic processing , which makes it visible and insensitive to light.

In a video camera  or digital still camera , the signal is captured with a video camera tube  or charge coupled device  sensor, which sends the picture to be processed by the camera's electronics. The signal can be transmitted or recorded on a storage device  for later playback.

Popularity

Analog photography is frequently used as a title for those who are keen to work with, or do work with more traditional types of photography; dedicated online communities have been established in which like-minded individuals together share and explore historic photographic practices.^[3]  Analog photography has in fact become much more popular with younger generations who have become increasingly interested in the traditional photographic practice; sales in film-based cameras began to soar, and youth were seen to embrace some 19th-century technology ^[4]  Urban Outfitters , a popular clothing chain has picked up on the trend and now offers more than 60 product combinations relating to cameras, most of which are film-based.

Polaroid used to be one of the most popular tools for analog instant photography, Facing the digital revolution, Polaroid stopped production of analog instant film in 2008. A company called Impossible Project acquired Polaroid's production machines in order to produce new instant films for Vintage Polaroid cameras and to revive the analog Polaroid photography technique.

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