Photography Tools and Supplies

Photography needs just one must have tool – the camera. Everything else has been made optional with the advancement of technology. Conventional chemical coated film has given way to the digital format, where images are stored using binary numbers.  In ancient times, that is to say, about 10 years ago, conventional films were essential for photography. These were either black and white films, or color films. Color films came in two variations, negatives and transparencies. Transparencies, or slide rolls, could be projected onto a screen. Negatives – and they differed considerably from transparencies in chemical and physical aspects – were developed on photographic paper to produce images.

For an old school professional photographer, nothing beats the muted sepia tones of a well developed image. In some technical respect, this is still correct. The best digital format can accommodate hardly a few million pixels per square cm. Old fashioned paper based photography can reproduce almost a billion pixels per square cm. This means, paper based photography can be enlarged to an almost unlimited extent. Digital cameras, however, are actually less expensive, and make taking pictures easier and smarter. If you were going mountaineering in the 70s, you would need a porter simply to carry your film rolls. Standard film rolls stored 36 pictures; a small SD card in a digital camera can store over a few thousand images. 

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