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Well I'm a vinyl for life man and I still have a cupboard full of film SLR's and an enlarger and all the bits that I never sold. The price on ebay was so ridiculous compared to what I paid for it. Great niece is now starting to express an interest. Good to see something else where the kids are starting to get the concept of taking time and effort to get a satisfying result rather than following a commercialized instant satisfaction route that is ultimately unsatisfying.
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I'm going to get some black and white film and get my Minoltas out. I still have the Nikon film scanner and thanks to Ed Hamrick and Vuescan it's still usable. Processing B&W film is easy scan it into the computer and your away. Although I agree with the poster who said nothing beats a silver based print. However the thought of setting up the darkroom and all that trial and error to get one print I'm happy with after 3 hours work is still a bit off putting. Perhaps that's a business model for the future a darkroom setup you can walk into and use by the hour.
Hmm.... eBay, here I come!
Here's one I shot the day before I burned my last roll of Kodachrome. Shot on B&W film and then colorized. I still shoot large format cameras with mostly B&W film, but shoot the occasional Portra. I love film.
The lenses don't wear out but the camera did. I'm waiting for a digital camera that will let me do the focusing and be able to use all the great lenses I have stored away.
If you have manual focus lenses on a DSLR. My friend uses all his old Nikon lenses on a Nikon 7200 and it still registers if something is in focus with the focus confirmation. He had all the lenses so why buy cheap plastic auto focus lenses to replace great lenses of the past.
Dunno.. Did a LOT of BW photography in 70's Nikon f's exclusively.
Coleauges use Current Nikons .. digital wonders .. BFD.
They still take crappy images.
Camera is merely the image capturing tool.
God forbid they run the battery down.
Besides I've Yet to see.. a decent non Silver based BW print, despite all bleats.
IMO IF one needs self focusing then perhaps Photo-gravy isn't really suited.
Want snaps ? Use your Phone these are displacing goofy bloated oversized Cameras .. quickly.
I've been a Nikon guy since 1969. Had an Ftn, an F2 and an F4. One problem with that generation of lenses and the (relatively) modern generation of Nikon film cameras (I have an F4, the last of Nikon's truly professional film cameras) is that the old lenses will not couple to the camera's light meter. At that point, they really are hard to work with. Also, my lenses from the 60's and early 70's developed fungus between the lens elements, a not uncommon situation. I still use this camera for "wet" black and white photography.
For color, digital is my choice. I have a d700.
8^)
I have an XE-7 that still works great.
For a $1000 I could buy a Nikon F2S or F3 and a few desirable lenses a 24 or 28mm f 2.8, 50mm f 1.4 85mm f 2 and an 80-200mm f 4 all mint condition and shipping included.
That was the camera I dreamed of but I bought some medium format equipment instead to go shoot weddings. Ahh I miss film.
I mean, why design/build a new film camera? Why would any typical enthusiast or beginning photographer buy a new film camera? You can pick up a lightly used Canon, Olympus or Minolta SLR body, a couple of decent lenses, a carry bag, filters, tripod, etc, for pennies on Ebay.
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
Interesting. But I must have slept through the resurgence of interest in cassettes referenced in the article. Their only redeeming quality was they were better than the portable medium they replaced (8 tracks), but that was the only redeeming quality.
I got rid of the SLRs about six years ago. Got a mere pittance for them.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because, otherwise, who would care?
"SLR"s were replaced by DSLRs. Now digital SLRs are all but replaced by EVFs (Electronic Viewfinders). But I know you were referring to film cameras when you used the term SLR. I never sold my film cameras, but figured it was just for sentimental reasons and because the values were in the toilet anyway for everything but my Leica stuff, which actually held its value because it was a collector item in the first place. Now I am wondering where to buy film.
Before the bottom fell out of the market for film cameras, I sold my mint condition Rolleiflex 2.8F. I'd give a lot to have that one back.
Canon AE-1, a really old Minolta (no built-in light meter) and a third camera, can't remember the manufacturer. Only got $25 for all three.
Honestly, I wasn't sure any of them worked other than the Minolta.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because, otherwise, who would care?
"Now I am wondering where to buy film"
I buy mine from eBay (mostly Adorama), and have it developed at a local lab.
I was just in NYC and noticed that many of the old line "camera stores" are still in business, stores I used to haunt 40 years ago.
Somehow I see where this is all headed. I just hope old-fashioned toilet paper doesn't go out of style!
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