Anyone still shoot film?

[Ironwood]

I still have my old 6X6 Bronica S2.  I haven't used it in years.  I gave most of my darkroom stuff away a few years back.  I kept my Lucky enlarger.  Anyone here remember those?  I still have a couple of 35MM cameras.  Anyone need any Universal thread lenses?  My favorite 35MM camera is still the K1000 Pentax.  When I checked it the other day there was still a roll of film in it.

My first digital camera was the Sony Mavica.  I think it was about 1/3 of a MP.  The Mavica was almost a joke, terrible resolution.  I'm now using an Olympus E410 DSLR 10MP.  I was really surprised at how sharp an 8X10 will print out.  Not 35MM sharp yet but its sure getting close.  For an amateur it doesn't get much better.

[Don Fischer]

Time to post some film pictures.

This photo shot with a Yashica 635 twin lens, Fuji Reala and neg scanned into computer.


Shot with Nikon F5 on Fuji Reala


Pentax 645 NII and Illford Delta 100


Yashika 645 and Illford Delta 100


Nikon FG and Fuji Reala

[jls]

I too cannot turn away from my film cameras. The missus and I have 2 or 3 digitals hovering about but I can't part with my Nikon N6006. Problem is now, I need a battery and can't find one locally(southern co) Is there a website store where I can order one? I sure would like to get it up and running again!

[UtahRob]

 Film I think i have heard of that !!!!

Went digital around around 6 years ago and never looked back .

Ansel Adams was a great photographer and also a genyous in the darkroom .

My darkroom is now the computer , but i still take photos with filters and do very Little post processing, just a little sharpening and every now and then a little extra contrast .

All of these where taken with a cannon 20D , with a 17-40 mm f4L lens and a circular  polarizing filter . Will be getting a Canon 5d soon.  Post sharpening was ALL that was done .  Some where taken from  -2 to -4 under exposed , I bracket my photos just as i did with film. . all the photos below have been printed on Canvas in 16x24 or 20x30 and are very sharp . I may take 10 shots or more of a scene as the clouds change and delete the ones i don't like when i return home and look at them on a screen .  Just can't afford to do that with film .









This was the real color , using a polarizing filter and - 2 stops under exposed .
My favorite Old house to photograph In Fielding Utah ,



 I took these little guys after i took the sunset of the old house, they where climbing a corner fence post after dark .

[UtahRob]

I too cannot turn away from my film cameras. The missus and I have 2 or 3 digitals hovering about but I can't part with my Nikon N6006. Problem is now, I need a battery and can't find one locally(southern co) Is there a website store where I can order one? I sure would like to get it up and running again!

Try this !!!


http://www.batteriesplus.com/products/64-0/4803-Film-Camera-Batteries/212705-Nikon/N6006/1.aspx

http://www.batteriesplus.com/models/64-0/4803-Film-Camera-Batteries/Nikon.aspx

[jls]

Thanx UB! they have what I need and its on the way. Be nice to shoot film again.

[Bigeasy]

 I am a pretty serious photographer, and even though I own a ton of Nikon film gear, It is the digital gear that gets the most use.  It's just quicker, cheaper, and easier to produce a quality image using digital.

Having said that, film will be around for a long time yet.  For a lot of the same reasons people hunt with a primitive weapon as apposed to a modern rifle, or prefere classic cars to modern.  My D3 is a hell of a camera, feature wise, but is really just a computer with a lens.  My F2 is a mechanical tool, a collection of hand fit gears, levers, and small parts that feels good in the hand, and represents an era of quality we wont see again.

The best part is now quality film gear is available at dirt cheap prices.  A Nikon F3, for example, goes for about $200.00-250.00 on eBay, a Canon A-1, under $100.00.

Larry

[epanzella]

I use a lot of digital for my articles to low paying publications, but not for any photos I might want to look at after the computer format changes.  Have you noticed how few VHS movies there are now that DVD has become affordable?  So, what about all of the VHS tapes of the kids?  Will you be able to view them in a few years?

I've got an attic full of 8mm movies that I took and 16mm movies that my father took.  I also have a pile of VHS tapes that I used to copy my my old Beta tapes when they went the way of the DODO bird. I am certainly concerned about the permanance of todays formats. Photographs are the only thing you can trust but I do have concerns about the longevity of the pigments these print machines use today. They spit out a color print in 60 seconds???  Will it last 60 years? I dunno. 
Ed Panzella

[Bob Riebe]

I use a lot of digital for my articles to low paying publications, but not for any photos I might want to look at after the computer format changes.  Have you noticed how few VHS movies there are now that DVD has become affordable?  So, what about all of the VHS tapes of the kids?  Will you be able to view them in a few years?

I've got an attic full of 8mm movies that I took and 16mm movies that my father took.  I also have a pile of VHS tapes that I used to copy my my old Beta tapes when they went the way of the DODO bird. I am certainly concerned about the permanance of todays formats. Photographs are the only thing you can trust but I do have concerns about the longevity of the pigments these print machines use today. They spit out a color print in 60 seconds???  Will it last 60 years? I dunno. 
Ed Panzella

If you have some negatives you want printed, or film you want developed and printed, do a search on the net for places that still develope and print old school. That means no scanning involved period.

If I can find it, I will list it here, but there is a place in Colorado that can do almost any format that exists or existed but only do it when enough comes in to make doing a batch worth the effort (developing not printing) so the price does not give the customers a heart attack.
It still is NOT CHEAP but you get custom lab work and QUALITY, not half-assed work the quicky places do.
There are other labs out there that still do old school work but you have to look for them.
I had my  few 8mm movies put on VHS years ago and unless you have movie gear, it is definitely worth the effort.
Keep film and negative frozen, or at least in a cool DRY place and they will last a long time.
DVDs are NOT a long term storage method for anything.
I went down to a broadcasting museum here and they were busing putting videos on high quality tape for archival storage.
They said if you want long term storage and cannot put somethng on film, they said to  put it on the largest format tape you can. (They were putting it on 2 inch tape, which without China would soon be history.)