I admit it: I’m often a digitizer. If I had my druthers, I would scan or download every receipt, manual, and more to replace the physical item. There are advantages—cloud availability, saving space in my home—but I am still only often a digitizer. That it’s a practical move in the utilitarian realm is undeniable, but for the things that speak to your soul, there are irreplaceable qualities that must exist in the 3D world.
Ineluctable modality of the visible—neither Joyce nor Aristotle had a world of shimmering ghost images in mind. No matter how powerful our technology gets, we’re in it to win it in a palpable world. Imagine the people and places you love as a streaming-only miniseries—and should the service fail?
To that end, consider this: do you enjoy using film for photography, but only get scans for Instagram? If so, you’re missing out on the experience of getting your roll back after it’s been transformed into functionally permanent slices of reality (we use archival photographic paper designed to last many decades). Instantly effective portals to another time and place—hang them on your wall, give them to others who were there, collage them into an heirloom record of a once-in-a-lifetime trip—the only limit is your imagination.
Next roll you drop off for processing, why not give it a try? We’ll add a full set of 4×6 prints for only $3 this month.
Mike’s Camera still offers professional quality photographic prints from film, and for the entire month of May, you can add a full set of 4×6 prints to any “Develop + Scan” order for only $3. Visit any of our stores to get processing today! And, yes: we do sell a wide variety of film, so you can keep the party going.