The future of film photography

 After a incandescent dispute, film photography are losing it's superiority to the digital imagining at any performance. High performance digital camera become cheaper and cheaper day by day. Even the cheapest new SLR model surpass over two or three yeaｒs old expensive types. It may be taboo for camera shop concerned that the cheapest new model has high ability than a little bit old "flagship"in the digital SLR camera world. And, almost new digital SLR cameras have higher performance than film cameras nowadays. For example, the latest Canon kiss X4 is surpass Nikon D300 for the resolution, and you can buy four Canon X4s at the same cost as D300. Off course, D300 was already stopped it's production. Digital SLR camera market is enormously competitive, so basic units of imaging become unified. As a result, Price of high grade type is only the difference of sub gear or body design. Digital camera enable us to make high resolution photograph easily, and the gap between professionals and amateurs become little day by day.Professional cameraman might disappear.

 Yet, film photography seems to survive for the time being.  Film photographers don't always need high resolution for their works. All they should do is embodying the artistic motive. Moreover, without electricity, we can use film camera and develop.Still now, Negative film and Photographic paper surpass far over the usual digital printing in the saturation and gradation. But these elaborated prints is useless as a commercial use. Film photograph has already become an unprofitable work.

 One famous Japanese university has a photography department. and this department has two courses : film and digital. Almost students take the digital course. There are so few students in the film course that they can almost occupy the facilities for developing. They seems to enjoy the complicated way of film developing and get to live for the analog cozy world.
 But their way to the future is too dark to make blue prints.

A Year After The Tsunami

Many cars and houses were swept away by the huge tsunami. I felt like I was dreaming at that time. The quake was so powerful and my town quaked strong too. Nobody forget the devastating power of nature.
 Many Japanese might begin to feel a crisis of the social regime, and there are no constructive opinion about a future among the young generation. And many aged people died of this disaster.
 Demographic tsunami are now coming. but politics is impotence in the face of decreasing birthrate.
All people implicitly know that the modern age values don't deserve to resolve this problem. Tsunami swept the veil over the hopeless toil against demographic catastrophe. Forcing young women to be married without preconditions and bear the child, would it nothing but Fascism?