This is probably the most expensive post on this blog so far. The reason? All of these photos were taken via analogue film and then digitalised. Just to transform these images into a digital format, which is able to be shown on this blog, several steps had to be undertaken.

First, acquire the film. Then shoot the whole roll. Then hand it in for development at the store. Let the photos be scanned. Pick up the developed negatives and the scans. Transfer them to your computer. Realise the store scanned the black-and-white negatives with colour settings. Open GIMP and get rid of the sepia undertone. Upload to blog.

If you look at digital photos, the whole process seems so much simpler. Press a button. Insert the memory card from the camera into your computer. Upload to blog. The whole process has much fewer steps and it does not cost you any money. So why even use film?

The reason for me to use film was initally one of curiosity. After using the digital camera exclusively up to now, I wanted to engage with the other photographic medium: Analogue film. Afterall, digital and analogue use two different means to arrive at the same goal of producing a photograph. The first mean is electronic, the second one is chemical.
Obviously, this also influences the way the image looks. Digital photographs seem sharper, while analogue photographs have a somewhat smoother quality and texture. I could go more in depth on this right now, but I believe this topic has enough potential for a blog post of its own.

The inevitable question coming up when comparing two things seems to be: Which one is better? Concerning the matter of analogue and digital photographs I think this question is besides the point. Both approaches have their benefits and enable a different kind of photography.
The reason analogue might seem outdated could lie in the fact that we now live in a digital media environment, which makes it harder for analogue photographs to enter that digital environment. As mentioned above, it takes quite some time and money to turn an analogue photograph into a digital one. Digitial photography does not have this "problem", since it is completely electronic to start with.

For the economical sake of this blog it would probably be more rational to only use digital photographs. But who is rational?