Thread: Film Cameras

i have a nikon fm and i enjoy using it.

It may be fun when i have lots of time to stop and compose the perfect picture, it takes a while a full manual camera to set everything up so i dont take it with me always.

Then again i do get the best pics ever when i slow down and take my time so maybe i will take it out with me more often.

Yeah I agree. I'm pretty quick at focusing and setting the shutter speeds now. The only digital camera I have is the one in my phone so for trips or other purposes, the minolta does its job well.

I carry a Minolta CLE and two Leica lenses in my camera bag along with a digital Nikon D40. Not that the Nikon is bad, but technology advances suck the value out of even high-end plastic digital cameras.

Digitals are good, but have no soul.

While I don't shoot with film anymore, I think it's a great way to enjoy "slow photography". You can read a bit more about that here: The slow-photography movement asks what is the point of taking pictures? - By Tim Wu - Slate Magazine

I also moderate the Photography subreddit over at photography It's a place to discuss the tools and techniques of photography. We've got a bunch of helpful links and welcome people asking questions about how they can better use their equipment, or how to achieve certain types of shots, etc. It's not a place to post your own pictures, so it's usually pretty free of clutter and you can find interesting stuff easier. Come check it out!

Cool site aeon, I'll definitely be spending some time there. Yeah Hawkeye, there is just something too impersonal about some digital cameras. What they do is great, and I'm sure once I have the money I'll purchase a nice digital SLR, but I'm sure I'll keep the film around.

I Love film. As one of the previous posters said Digital Lacks soul. I shoot film mainly with a Minolta Maxxum 9, but I also use Old pentax's and Russian range finders. The older glass is just superb. I use a digital SLR quite a bit for day to day stuff. (cost effective and instant results, darn good pictures too) But, My best and most important pictures have always come from film. I have boxes of pictures of my kids that maybe someday their grandchildren may look at and enjoy. Where will my digital images be in 100 years ? Film is slowly dying, Kodachrome is dead, medium format almost dead, Polaroid dead, all being replaced by easy to delete digital. It's too bad,,,,, memories will be lost.