Who am I?

My name is Chris.  I am a lifelong, mostly-amateur photographer. I still shoot regularly, and for the last five years I have shot mostly on film.

I created this website as a space to share some of my work with people who might enjoy it.

Why “Film Is Dumb?”

Modern digital cameras are good. Impossibly good, and I get shots I could never have gotten in heyday of film, or even with my digitals a decade ago.

Still, not long after I got my first mirrorless (a Z6), I got it in my head to try film again. I loved it. Even with all the challenges, I continue to use film.

There’s almost nothing I can do with film that I can’t do more quickly, more easily, and way more cheaply with digital. I won’t justify it, and when a friend tried to get me to explain it to him, I only had one thought:

Film is dumb.

OK, it’s not. It’s really cool and I shoot it because I enjoy it, which is the only reason I use any camera. But the “filmiscool” domain name was already taken, so here we are.

Welcome to Film Is Dumb Dot Net. It’s Dot Com!