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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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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 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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Alan Browne wrote,on my timestamp of 26/01/2010 9:43 AM:
I shot 2 rolls of 120 and 0 rolls of 135 in 2009. And yet remarkably that doesn't stop you from emitting opinions about shooting film... |
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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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Paul Furman wrote,on my timestamp of 26/01/2010 9:58 AM:
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 Do yourself a favour and shoot decent film, instead of 30 year old emulsions! You wouldn't shoot a Mavica nowadays, would you? 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. Adox CMS 20 on Technidol LC or their own developer. It'll beat the sweet thingie off any medium format, digital or film. And it prints with amazing range, same for scanning. But you have to do your own development and scanning, I doubt any commercial place would be involved... Not that hard, the development bit. |
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Noons wrote:
Paul Furman wrote,on my timestamp of 26/01/2010 9:58 AM: 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 Do yourself a favour and shoot decent film, instead of 30 year old emulsions! You wouldn't shoot a Mavica nowadays, would you? LOL, well I didn't know what to expect. The walgreens brand was cheaper but the guy said it's actually Fuji, which I used to use for slides, for the intense greens. I did some b&w developing & enlarging in college but never got geeky about prints from then (about 1985) till 2000 when I went digital (almost got a mavica). I could possibly set up a B&W darkroom. Enlargers & stuff can be got for cheap and yeah, it's not that difficult. Somehow I really don't want a scanner. If I was going to do b&w, it would be more fun to make 'real' prints. Though I doubt I'd really get into it much. 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. Adox CMS 20 on Technidol LC or their own developer. It'll beat the sweet thingie off any medium format, digital or film. And it prints with amazing range, same for scanning. But you have to do your own development and scanning, I doubt any commercial place would be involved... Not that hard, the development bit. Thanks. Interesting. But on further thought, I guess the thing for me to explore is high dynamic range. My 'new' film camera is a real simple Nikon EM, chosen for it's small size, not really the best for extremely precise ISO 20 tripod work, more for street shooting & wide open fast lens craziness. A quick google on that film says very high contrast also... I don't know if that's really valuable as an alternative to digital or how that might play into dynamic range. Or maybe I should be looking at very low dynamic range fast b&w film??? I really don't know what to do with it. Mail order with a good scan would be nice. Ultraviolet film????? -- Paul Furman www.edgehill.net www.baynatives.com all google groups messages filtered due to spam |
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On 1/25/2010 6:01 PM Paul Furman spake thus:
LOL, well I didn't know what to expect. The walgreens brand was cheaper but the guy said it's actually Fuji, which I used to use for slides, for the intense greens. The last time I bought Walgreens branded film, it turned out to be Agfa. Not bad. (This was several years ago, though.) -- You were wrong, and I'm man enough to admit it. - a Usenet "apology" |
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