Thread: Film Cameras

Nice pictures MHV! I particularly like the two of Calgary, my home town. Were these shots with a digital SLR?

Just read the little bit where it says you use film and print by hand.

Aeon, The shots of the quintet are sweet. Thanks for sharing

I'm a little over a year into my 3rd sojourn w/ a lens. I stubbornly resisted digital, but now use for fast action in events. 'Makes me covet an F6 for getting the speed with film. Now the D76 is mixed & waiting to marinate some film, w/ a 100' bulk roll supplying the habit. So much for trying to avoid slopping chemicals again.

Single Photos: Photo Images by Doug Roberts Photography - photo.net

The 2nd shot of the grouse is NOT a crop. It was a 20 min. session w/ a local grouse that has adopted the neighborhood. Over the time, he/she was an avg. of 13" from me, pecking me once & charging into my head twice w/ wings a flurry.

Thx for sharing Aeon. Keep creating.

Yes I shoot film still ...I always get these odd looks at x mass time when I use it. They call me OLIN MILLS. I have a Minolta 101 from 1965 that someone gave me for 10 dollars and a bunch of lens to go along with it.

I have some of the lens that are used for real close up pictures like bug and flower parts. I don't use them if your interested let me know. It would be good to find someone who may get some fun and use out of them. I hate to see them sit and not be used, The glass is great.

I have a digital camera, I have never developed a picture off that camera. I am not real technology gifted.

Have a great day

Jeff

I primarily shoot digital, but I have an obscene number of old film cameras floating around. I do enjoy shooting film and have a darkroom setup for processing and making prints, B&W only. It's a different kind of feeling when shooting film, especially the bigger sizes; I love 6x6 and I have a 5x3 large format camera with a few lenses that is fun to use, as well.

Hey, Moonshae. Naturally, you can see the curvature of the earth between my skill & any of the masters, but Ansel Adams regularly used a polaroid - as a test/confirmation of what his experience & intuition told him. Enjoy your digital. If you come across an image you want very high quality and a large size print - use your digital results to tell you how to get the shot w/ medium format. Then sit back & enjoy a poster-sized print you're very proud of.

I used to shoot film and like Moonshae have a number of SLRs and Rangefinder cameras sitting around in a bit of a collection as a result. I shoot digital now exclusively and it is fine for my end use of the file which is having prints up to 11x17 done for the home and posting on the web. I think Ansel Adams would have enjoyed the heck out of digital photography considering how he printed the same scene in many different ways. He seemed to like to experiment that way.

Bob

I still shoot film too. I love it. I have a Nikon f5 it's a beast of a camera.

I shoot film from time to time and use an old Retina IIa.

Two Leicas (since the 1960s; IIIc and IIIf) still in sometime use; another VERY small 35mm shirtpocket clamshell rangefinder, almost as brilliant (in some ways) as the Leicas, an Olympus XA used until my nose wore most of the paint off the back, retired in the drawer; and an SLR subminiature system complete Pentax 110 SuperAuto - film now a problem for the undedicated (me) but too original and too cute to part with.

Always wanted a Baby Rollei and a nice Hasselblad but never got to it. I love film, still; used the four above all over the world.