Over the years, I’ve accumulated a truly embarrassing amount of film stock. I’ll freely admit that it’s a sickness. If I’m being honest with myself, it likely stems from a fear of missing out on something creative and new and a fear that one day it’s all going to be gone. One day, the last roll from the last batch of the last stock is going to come off the production line, and that’ll be that.
Of course, the chances of that happening anytime soon are fairly low. Film production took a steep dive a decade ago, but in the intervening years, the popularity of analog shooting has skyrocketed. Several once-dead stocks and formats have returned (Kodak Gold 120 and Fuji ACROS 100 are two examples), and companies are now competing…
