International Film Buying Day

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Lazy Eye

Lazy Eye
Originally uploaded by Qualudez

Picture of the day for Saturday 18 July.

MySpace Group

I've now created a MySpace group for the project. You can find it here.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Untitled-9-Edit

Untitled-9-Edit
Originally uploaded by markusgpl

Film picture of the day for 17 July 2009

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Hamburg Office Building by Hadi Teherani

Hamburg Office Building by Hadi Teherani
Originally uploaded by Holger Hill

Picture of the day for 16 July 2009. An excellent night shot.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Film Picture Of The Day

FV-7
Originally uploaded by fulvue

The first picture of the day

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Twitter

I've also added a link to Twitter where we now have a presence.

I've just put links in to the projects Flickr Group and the Facebook group. You will find the links on the right of this page. If you haven't already please go and join these groups to show your support for the project.

What is 'International Film Buying Day'?

Despite the present day predominance of Digital photography over film there remains a large, world-wide following of film users. For many reasons they still prefer images created by Silver Halide, and the shooting of film remains their photographic choice.

But because of the sharp decline in film sales it has become much more difficult to obtain certain types of film and the associated processing services required. Former household names have become casualties of the change to Digital, such as Polaroid who no longer produce their once famous instant film, and also Kodak's Kodachrome slide film. Once the byword for outstanding colour, Kodachrome will shorlty no longer be available. From next year it will not be possible to have this slide film processed, even if you had been able to obtain old stock.

But there remains a large, dedicated following of film users, and on 1 October this year we would ask everyone who enjoys or appreciates photographic film to buy as many rolls of their favourite film type as they can. We want to send a message to the photographic industry, the manufacturers and retailers, demonstrating that there remains a market segment still worth the investment.

International Film Buying Day - 1 October