Thread: Film Cameras

Originally Posted by MisterMoo

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.

Those screw mount Leicas were a pita for me to load unless I cut a leader for them. Liked the Canon P better for that reason plus the thumb wind and nicer VF. Liked range finder cameras quite a bit including the Nikon S2, Contax II and M4/M4P Leicas too.

Favourite SLRs were the Nikon FM/FE series and the F2. Continued to use some of the older manual focus lens on the D700 after I stopped using film. In some ways I liked using those older film cameras more compared to modern digitals but time marches on. I guess it is like the experience of using a SR compared to a cart, that sort of thing mostly.

Bob

My wife keeps reminding me that she needs her own freezer because all of my film and paper are in the house freezer. I keep reminder HER that the reason we got that freezer was for the film. To many cameras to list Leica's, Nikon's, Minolta, Rollei, Mamiya, etc...

Originally Posted by guitstik

My wife keeps reminding me that she needs her own freezer because all of my film and paper are in the house freezer. I keep reminder HER that the reason we got that freezer was for the film. To many cameras to list Leica's, Nikon's, Minolta, Rollei, Mamiya, etc...

That reminds me that I really should chuck some cardboard boxes of film out to make room for some meat.

Bob

Originally Posted by BobH

That reminds me that I really should chuck some cardboard boxes of film out to make room for some meat.

Bob

NOOOOOooooo, send them to me. I do a lot of work with old film and coffee based developers.

My wife has a couple of canon f1 cameras, one well used and the other mint. Hard to find anywhere that develops film any more let alone buy film. Part of the problem with the digital age, not many people print their photos. Even worse, we had a hard drive fail a few years back, lost about 7000 photos.

Originally Posted by Grazor

My wife has a couple of canon f1 cameras, one well used and the other mint. Hard to find anywhere that develops film any more let alone buy film. Part of the problem with the digital age, not many people print their photos. Even worse, we had a hard drive fail a few years back, lost about 7000 photos.

Pretty much the same where I live regarding film and developing. There is a 2 plus week turn around because film is sent out for processing in most places. I don't print much any more either. Yea, the one golden rule is back up your digital files and back up the back up. Hate to hear some lost all there files. Last I looked the Canon F1 was a collectible camera and was highly regarded as a working camera in it's day.

Bob

Just tried to get a roll of film developed. 13 bucks! Plus an extra 5 if I wanted them printed!! What a rip!! My go to place closed down and now it seems I'm out of places to develop nearby.

'Just makes me giddy - all of you that have some of the most iconic cameras of the last 100 yrs. I still covet an F6 (and a Mamiya 6, and a ...)- to get the speed of my digital & the quality of film. Cost is the pita for me w/ processing. For Med. format ('blad 500 c/m), I get high res scans - about 80mb/shot - and about $2.77/shot. So you can see why I use the digital or 35mm until I get pretty excited about something. 'Finally forced back to B&W & dunking my own. You just KNOW an enlarger will be next. I do have a couple of labs nearby. One is fast, one is good. I keep asking the good shop to offer a discount on getting both prints & scans - as an incentive to print. They feel strongly about having prints, but there's issues to solve - financial & storage-wise for having that many prints. As is, I got a Tb drive for just photos. I'm probably naive & will need several Tbs to hold them soon.

'Just makes me cringe to hear of losing those old shots. Even the masters will recount images they took decades ago & suddenly thought of how to make them dazzling.

I'll be spending time w/ my old friend I bought new in the mid-80's - FE2 that just delivers every time.

Thx for talking 'bout your photo fetish. This'll be my 3rd time back into it.

That's why I have always dunked my own plus the fact that I have pretty much a full darkroom lab with two enlargers and a 6' sink. There are still places to get film, paper and chems on line.

Originally Posted by guitstik

That's why I have always dunked my own plus the fact that I have pretty much a full darkroom lab with two enlargers and a 6' sink. There are still places to get film, paper and chems on line.

Yes, that is true. You can still get all that stuff but the choices are/were getting very limited and in some cases hard to source locally. Add to that most people are not willing to go to the effort to build and equip a full darkroom capable of processing C41, B&W and slide films. Not a thing wrong with being dedicated enough to do all that but for the vast majority of picture takers it was/is easier to go digital.

The shaving community is similar in that a very small group use SRs. Even within that small group of SR users not all want/have a full blown workshop for restoring razors or want to necessarily learn to hone.

Bob