The case for film
Why a third of every wedding here still goes through a lab in Vilnius.
Not nostalgia, and not the grain. Film changes how a day is photographed, because thirty-six frames make you wait for something to actually happen.
Fewer, better decisions
A digital body will make four hundred frames of a first dance. A film body makes eleven, and one of them is the picture.
You took half as many and we kept twice as many.Marta
What film keeps
The frames above are one roll. The ones below are what a slower camera makes you notice: hands, a bouquet held a moment too long, the light behind a veil.
How it works here
A third of every wedding goes on film, through one lab, then gets edited beside the digital frames as a single set. Nobody is ever told which is which.
Everything is shot digitally as well. Nobody has ever needed the backup, and it goes in the bag anyway.
