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Anyone still shoot film?
I've got four dSLRs, but I miss shooting film, so come Christmas, my mom
wanted me to take pictures so I dusted off my old ElanII, 28-105 lens, and bought a roll of Kodak Gold ( nothin' particularly fancy about this rig ) with a 580ex flash took some snaps and had the pictures developed at a local drugstore. The shots were beautiful, or at least I thought so and so did my family. The "white balance" ( as we now call it in the digital world ) was stunning. I couldn't get 50 bucks for that camera now ( minus the lens and flash, of course), so no point in selling it. In fact, I bought it at a flea market for 10 bucks. I picked up an old Polaroid Land 250 and a bulb flash unit for a song, and I can still get batteries and film ( fuji ) for it, so I'm looking to have some fun with it. I found a guy that sells bulbs for it, but, I was a little boy the last time they used them, and these bulbs have been sitting in a warehouse for a long time. Expensive 'cuz they no longer make them. I'm doing some math, and I think each shot, with flash, is going to cost about 4 bucks. Sheesh -- better get it right the first time !! Patrick |
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"Annika1980" wrote in message ... FILM SUX ! DIGITAL RULES !!! Do you mind, Bret? "RULZ" please. Get it right, son. -- Jeff R. |
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On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:01:22 -0800, "Patrick L"
wrote: I've got four dSLRs, but I miss shooting film, so come Christmas, my mom wanted me to take pictures so I dusted off my old ElanII, 28-105 lens, and bought a roll of Kodak Gold ( nothin' particularly fancy about this rig ) with a 580ex flash took some snaps and had the pictures developed at a local drugstore. The shots were beautiful, or at least I thought so and so did my family. The "white balance" ( as we now call it in the digital world ) was stunning. I couldn't get 50 bucks for that camera now ( minus the lens and flash, of course), so no point in selling it. In fact, I bought it at a flea market for 10 bucks. I picked up an old Polaroid Land 250 and a bulb flash unit for a song, and I can still get batteries and film ( fuji ) for it, so I'm looking to have some fun with it. I found a guy that sells bulbs for it, but, I was a little boy the last time they used them, and these bulbs have been sitting in a warehouse for a long time. Expensive 'cuz they no longer make them. I'm doing some math, and I think each shot, with flash, is going to cost about 4 bucks. Sheesh -- better get it right the first time !! Patrick I've got an old Kodak Brownie from the early 50s that I still shoot with sometimes. I have a small supply of flash bulbs for it, but I don't use them often because they're getting very hard to find. I do still shoot a fair amount of film, almost never 35 mm. though. I slit film and reload 110 cassettes for a Pentax Auto110, and shoot 120 film in a Pentax 67 and a Yashica D, as well as the Brownie (rerolled 120 film on Brownie spools). It's a nice change of pace. |
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"rwalker" wrote in message
... On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:01:22 -0800, "Patrick L" wrote: I've got four dSLRs, but I miss shooting film, so come Christmas, my mom wanted me to take pictures so I dusted off my old ElanII, 28-105 lens, and bought a roll of Kodak Gold ( nothin' particularly fancy about this rig ) with a 580ex flash took some snaps and had the pictures developed at a local drugstore. The shots were beautiful, or at least I thought so and so did my family. The "white balance" ( as we now call it in the digital world ) was stunning. I couldn't get 50 bucks for that camera now ( minus the lens and flash, of course), so no point in selling it. In fact, I bought it at a flea market for 10 bucks. I picked up an old Polaroid Land 250 and a bulb flash unit for a song, and I can still get batteries and film ( fuji ) for it, so I'm looking to have some fun with it. I found a guy that sells bulbs for it, but, I was a little boy the last time they used them, and these bulbs have been sitting in a warehouse for a long time. Expensive 'cuz they no longer make them. I'm doing some math, and I think each shot, with flash, is going to cost about 4 bucks. Sheesh -- better get it right the first time !! Patrick I've got an old Kodak Brownie from the early 50s that I still shoot with sometimes. I have a small supply of flash bulbs for it, but I don't use them often because they're getting very hard to find. I do still shoot a fair amount of film, almost never 35 mm. though. I slit film and reload 110 cassettes for a Pentax Auto110, and shoot 120 film in a Pentax 67 and a Yashica D, as well as the Brownie (rerolled 120 film on Brownie spools). It's a nice change of pace. I have a Leica Z2X that I put a lot of film through (bought used on eBay because I always wanted a Leica and it's the only one I could afford -- It was actually made in Singapore, but it has a legit Leica logo on it and it takes beautiful pictures). I also have a Yashica Electro 35 that I use when I need a hot shoe accessory and can make use of the fairly wide angle lens. |
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On 2010-01-25 08:56:28 -0800, "tcroyer" said:
I also have a Yashica Electro 35 that I use when I need a hot shoe accessory and can make use of the fairly wide angle lens. It is good to know there is somebody else who still owns and uses an Electro 35. I got mine in 1969, and have always been amazed at its performance. http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechut...Electro35G.jpg -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On 2010-01-25 10:02:51 -0800, Bruce said:
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:45:36 -0800, Savageduck wrote: On 2010-01-25 08:56:28 -0800, "tcroyer" said: I also have a Yashica Electro 35 that I use when I need a hot shoe accessory and can make use of the fairly wide angle lens. It is good to know there is somebody else who still owns and uses an Electro 35. I got mine in 1969, and have always been amazed at its performance. http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechut...Electro35G.jpg There are still many happy users of the Electro 35 GS/GT. I regret selling my GSN. I replaced it with a Canon GIII QL which had a better lens (nicer bokeh) but wasn't as versatile. The very long exposure capability of the Electro 35 was a remarkable achievement. Which batteries do you use in yours? I got the L544 adapter from http://www.yashica-guy.com which I use in combination with a 4L44. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On 10-01-25 0:01 , Patrick L wrote:
I've got four dSLRs, but I miss shooting film, so come Christmas, my mom wanted me to take pictures so I dusted off my old ElanII, 28-105 lens, and bought a roll of Kodak Gold ( nothin' particularly fancy about this rig ) with a 580ex flash took some snaps and had the pictures developed at a local drugstore. The shots were beautiful, or at least I thought so and so did my family. The "white balance" ( as we now call it in the digital world ) was stunning. I couldn't get 50 bucks for that camera now ( minus the lens and flash, of course), so no point in selling it. In fact, I bought it at a flea market for 10 bucks. I picked up an old Polaroid Land 250 and a bulb flash unit for a song, and I can still get batteries and film ( fuji ) for it, so I'm looking to have some fun with it. I found a guy that sells bulbs for it, but, I was a little boy the last time they used them, and these bulbs have been sitting in a warehouse for a long time. Expensive 'cuz they no longer make them. I'm doing some math, and I think each shot, with flash, is going to cost about 4 bucks. Sheesh -- better get it right the first time !! I shot 2 rolls of 120 and 0 rolls of 135 in 2009. |
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Patrick L wrote:
I've got four dSLRs, but I miss shooting film, so come Christmas, my mom wanted me to take pictures so I dusted off my old ElanII, 28-105 lens, and bought a roll of Kodak Gold ( nothin' particularly fancy about this rig ) with a 580ex flash took some snaps and had the pictures developed at a local drugstore. The shots were beautiful, or at least I thought so and so did my family. The "white balance" ( as we now call it in the digital world ) was stunning. I couldn't get 50 bucks for that camera now ( minus the lens and flash, of course), so no point in selling it. In fact, I bought it at a flea market for 10 bucks. I picked up an old Polaroid Land 250 and a bulb flash unit for a song, and I can still get batteries and film ( fuji ) for it, so I'm looking to have some fun with it. I found a guy that sells bulbs for it, but, I was a little boy the last time they used them, and these bulbs have been sitting in a warehouse for a long time. Expensive 'cuz they no longer make them. I'm doing some math, and I think each shot, with flash, is going to cost about 4 bucks. Sheesh -- better get it right the first time !! I shot one roll recently for the first time in a decade. Photo CD at walgreens with kodak gold 200 was pretty crummy looking. Can anyone recommend a mail-in service with good scans? There are stores here where I could no doubt get it done but assuming that'd be expensive. Maybe I should try some really nice b&w film, like something that can do stuff digital can't with dynamic range or resolution. I really don't want to get a film scanner or get into it too heavily. -- Paul Furman www.edgehill.net www.baynatives.com all google groups messages filtered due to spam |
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"Patrick L" wrote in message news I've got four dSLRs, but I miss shooting film, so come Christmas, my mom wanted me to take pictures so I dusted off my old ElanII, 28-105 lens, and bought a roll of Kodak Gold ( nothin' particularly fancy about this rig ) with a 580ex flash took some snaps and had the pictures developed at a local drugstore. The shots were beautiful, or at least I thought so and so did my family. The "white balance" ( as we now call it in the digital world ) was stunning. I couldn't get 50 bucks for that camera now ( minus the lens and flash, of course), so no point in selling it. In fact, I bought it at a flea market for 10 bucks. I picked up an old Polaroid Land 250 and a bulb flash unit for a song, and I can still get batteries and film ( fuji ) for it, so I'm looking to have some fun with it. I found a guy that sells bulbs for it, but, I was a little boy the last time they used them, and these bulbs have been sitting in a warehouse for a long time. Expensive 'cuz they no longer make them. I'm doing some math, and I think each shot, with flash, is going to cost about 4 bucks. Sheesh -- better get it right the first time !! Patrick I am 100% committed to film. I buy film in 25 or 50 roll packs, and color printing paper in rolls of (about) 200 or 600 feet, depending on the width. I have a well-equipted color darkroom, capable of printing up to 20" wide prints. As for your results at the local drugstore, I think you got lucky! Many times, the person running the machine at the one-hour photo place (whether it's CVS, Walgreens, WalMart, etc), is a part-timer, who last week was working the checkout register. If you find a one-hour store with very low employee turnover, and a processing machine that gets regular factory maintenance, stick with them! (The automated one-hour machines want to see a certain mixture of colors and densitites. I suspect your holiday snaps probably were within the normal limits. If you had taken a picture of a black cat in the middle of a snow-covered field on a sunny day, or a yellow pear in front of a red barn, your results would probably have been less than stellar.) I've worked with digital photographers, and at the end of the day, the digital shooter might have shot ten times the number of frames as I did on film, but the total number of "keepers" is nearly the same. If people 'grow up' on film shooting, they are used to making sure the shot is going to be good before tripping the shutter. A digital shooter can just keep firing, hoping that one of the frames will be good. |
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Annika1980 wrote,on my timestamp of 25/01/2010 5:46 PM:
On Jan 25, 1:13 am, Noons wrote: On Jan 25, 4:01 pm, "Patrick L" wrote: I've got four dSLRs, but I miss shooting film, so come Christmas, my mom wanted me to take pictures so I dusted off my old ElanII, 28-105 lens, and bought a roll of Kodak Gold ( nothin' particularly fancy about this rig ) with a 580ex flash took some snaps and had the pictures developed at a local drugstore. The shots were beautiful, or at least I thought so and so did my family. The "white balance" ( as we now call it in the digital world ) was stunning. I couldn't get 50 bucks for that camera now ( minus the lens and flash, of course), so no point in selling it. In fact, I bought it at a flea market for 10 bucks. Go to apug.org and meet a large crowd still happily shooting film. Or go to one of the many cimmunities in flickr doing the same. And a lot of other places. FILM SUX ! DIGITAL RULES !!! Why do dogs lick their balls? Because they can. |
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