Film photography

tuftey02

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Any non digital photographers here just bought this of ebay to have a play with

Going to put some poundland film in it and see how it turns out
 

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I still use my Pentax MX bought new in 1976, nothing wrong with it but it is a pain in the ars compared with digital.
What I find is that when it comes to taking pics for the joy of taking pics it's a invaluable to have that limitation of 36 frames.
 
Im with you there these days its easy to take lots of pictures on a phone most of which are crap.
Im looking forward to getting my pictures thru the post like in the old days.
Very retro though i did pop into my local boots and they still have the photo processing dept .
With 35mm film in stock buy one get one half price.
 
I used 35mm for years printed and processed all my own work, but I simply don't see the point it's very costly and wasteful chemicals darkroom film enlagers filters fridges you literally need a second house to to go with this hobby, on the other hand to me Digital photography as been a god send no waste if you shoot a 100 images you upload them and you can delete 99 print from your own printer cost friendly, all you really need is a spare battery and two filters that's about it, and don't let 35mm geeks tell you they can print as big as they want they can but they don't because that also takes specialist equipment.
 
The quality is better with digital imho, the MX has a very limited light meter which is centre weighted so in large my digital Panasonic z200 is years ahead in output quality.

I have a colleague with a large format hobby, where he does everything even using glass plates, not cheap but keeps him busy [SMILING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH]
 
Years ago, in addition to the SLR, I had an Olympus IS1000 (effectively a bridge camera) - Saharan sand did for it a couple of years later, so got dumped, then I saw one for £15 on Fleabay last year including 3 films, so on impulse I bought it for nostalgia's sake, if nothing else.

Cracking camera - still produces good images, too.

Odd though - taking a photo, then looking blankly at the back wondering where the picture is...
 
I own a photo lab- admittedly it is very biased to Digital.
BUT I still process and print 135 and 120 film. Colour or especially Black and white.

Can't do E6, and if you don't know what I mean then then back to the digycam!
 
I've got a few old film cameras; Nikon FE2, and a Canon QL-19 GIII. Both really nice to use. Don't use them often but really love getting a few rolls through them in the summer.
 
I used to love film. All my work was shot on E6....those were the days! You had to get exposures spot on back then! Nome of this checking the back of the camera! I used to be able to guess the exposure in the studio by how loud the pop from the flash was! Fond memories :)
 
pugh-the-special-one said:
I used 35mm for years printed and processed all my own work, but I simply don't see the point it's very costly and wasteful chemicals darkroom film enlagers filters fridges you literally need a second house to to go with this hobby, on the other hand to me Digital photography as been a god send no waste if you shoot a 100 images you upload them and you can delete 99 print from your own printer cost friendly, all you really need is a spare battery and two filters that's about it, and don't let 35mm geeks tell you they can print as big as they want they can but they don't because that also takes specialist equipment.
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I totally agree. I started with a Nikkormat and eventually arrived at the F4, arguably the best 35mm camera ever made. I still keep fresh batteries in it but now my digital cameras are the one that I mostly use. In theory the film cameras are the most fun but in practice the digitals rule. I have kids scattered around the States and when I want to depict the beauties of Northern Spain I just have to attach pictures to an email and off they go.
 
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