Justify Your Expensive Film-Photography Habit.

About This Video

A practical companion to the earlier "Film Photography: 3 Great Things About It": this episode addresses the economic objection head-on. Film photography is expensive. Van's justification isn't sentimental. It's material: buy frames from Jerry's Artarama (Ambiance Gallery Wood Frame, 4x6), inscribe them with a Posca paint pen, and the cost-per-photograph reframes from "expensive habit" to "affordable heirloom." The framing formula and inscription guide are specific enough to be actionable.

The sacrifice Van references isn't just financial. It's the sacrifice of convenience. Every dollar and minute spent on film photography is a dollar and minute not spent on the infinitely cheaper, infinitely faster digital alternative. Film produces objects that exist in the world, not files that exist on a server. Three and a half minutes, no filler. That distinction is the whole argument.

Transcript

he likes to give presents but not at [Music] Christmas camera shop film shoot shop album that's film photography to justify the money and the

time you got to give some of them away the best ones your favorites and they

got to be framed and the frames got to be right plain wood 4x6 for your 4x6

prints one and a half inches deep so they can freely sit a top of Steinway Concert Grand

no gross stand thing on the back this particular kind of frame is

hard to find doesn't seem like it but it is so here's the

formula Jerry's urama 4X 6 by 1 1/2 in deep natural that's the color about 13

bucks a piece but if you buy a case they're about eight bucks a piece I'm not getting paid this is a public

service [Music] announcement 4x6 prints no white borders they show a little bit it's no big deal but better without the borders at the end of the day your prints cost you about a dollar a

piece uni PCA paint pen 7 mm white about five bucks a

piece who's in the photo date [Music] location you might have to loot your albums and sacrifice it hurts but you'll

see the photo again when you visit the gift te's home give it away give it away give it away [Music] now give it away to keep

[Music] it on this week's patreon only video it's really hard to capture the Romance of the Road by shooting out the windows

of a moving car but I keep trying here's some things I saw on my trip from Tanga to Austin and I guess this is for those of you who love the road like me [Music]

Products & Tools Mentioned

• Jerry's Artarama frames recommends — plain wood 4x6 by 1.5 inch deep natural frames, ~$8/each in cases of 8, ~$13 sin
• Uni Posca paint pen 7mm white recommends — $5 paint pen for inscribing photos