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Anyone Still Shoot Film?

Absent Minded Farmer

Absent Minded Farmer

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Figured this would be a short post, but worth a try. Anyone still using a film camera? Don't matter the format. I'm still shooting 35mm, 110 & 120.
Also do my own C-41, E4 & E6 B&W & ECN-2 developing. Yes, there is still fresh film being made to this day, if you are wondering dear reader.
Chemicals, too.

I await this post with eager eyes.
Mike

Both photos taken with a Zeiss Ikon Contaflex Super B w/Tessar 2.8 50mm lens on Fuji Premium (not X-tra) 400, no hood, no filter, light meter on
it's way out. Look at those gorgeous reds!!!!
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I still have a 35 mm Panasonic, but I don't use it much. Wow do I ever like those front tires on your "H". Those are probably the nicest looking front tractor tires ever made. Be nice if they came down in price so more could justify their purchase.
 
Hard to find a local place to buy or get film processed. I used to
have a darkroom. I developed black & white film and did black &
white and color enlargements.
 
I had an Omega. I really don't want to get back into film.
Digital is too easy but I do think film gives better enlargements.
 
Did a lot of B&W with 4X5 Graflex using cut film, some color negative, and that Polaroid inter negative stuff. Made very nice prints when you were using a negative the size of a postcard. Couple of Nikons and Canons. Started 35 with a brand new Petry FT. Nice little camera. Also did a lot of video with canon, and Sony 8 then higain 8 metal, and then sony digital tripple chip 900, then a Sony 2000 semi pro camera. Now use a Canon 7D now and then. The thing I use all of the time is my Samsung smart phone. Actually...started 35mm with an Instamatic 100 for my 12th birthday. Before that I used a kodak Brownie box camera that used that huge roll film. Something like 620 or something? Hard to imagine a digital reflex with a 50mp imager. You hear rumors of 80 and even higher. Guy I know was at the vegas show a couple of years ago and saw a CF CARD that was one terra bite. Only cost $3000.oo. Only in Japan though.
 
I always wanted a Crown Graphic camera. I knew a photographer that had one and you take a picture of a car a block away and enlarge it to where you could read the license plate.
 
I used and still do a Pentax K1000. Also have a Pentax A3000 and istD. Mamiya 645, foldex 20, Fed go3D 3, agfa pb20 tribar a super Ricoflex, Argoflex seventy five and a few others. Taught the grandson on the k1000. That way you actually have to learn aperture and shutter speed. It doesnt do it for you. He still uses it but likes the 3000 for the auto wind. I still use the k and the istD ( digital slr) it uses all the lenses from my other 2 Pentax. Once in a while the mamiya comes off the shelf. Never tried developing.
 

A few years back I got the old Olympus OM-10 out and shot up several rolls of film. I finally got around to taking them to the same drugstore I'd always used. The last time I'd sent any film in it had been over night/double prints free/a free roll of the Kodak film of your choice for using them and it was really inexpensive. This time I got the film back in a week/one set of prints/no free film and it cost something like $10.00 a roll!!!

That was enough of film for me. I pretty much gave up after that as far as photos went.
 
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A few years back I got the old Olympus OM-10 out and shot up several rolls of film. I finally got around to taking them to the same drugstore I'd always used. The last time I'd sent any film in it had been over night/double prints free/a free roll of the Kodak film of your choice for using them and it was really inexpensive. This time I got the film back in a week/one set of prints/no free film and it cost something like $10.00 a roll!!!

That was enough of film for me. I pretty much gave up after that as far as photos went.
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I have an OM1 black body that hasn't been out of the bag in 20 years.
 
We have a high dollar Minolta with a zoom lens. It hasn't been out of the bag for over 15 years, ever since I began doing real estate inspections and went digital.

Doing the inspections, I'd sometimes take well over 100 pictures in a day. With digital, I could simply download them to my computer and add them to my reports. I'd hate to even try doing that job with film.
 
I still have my Nikon FM and several rolls of Kodachrome in the refrigerator but I've not used either in 15+ years.

Dean
 
I thought I was the only one left. I shoot 35mm up to 4X5. Wet darkroom with Omega Cold light E5. I absolutely appreciate the strong points of digital, but my own preference is still for film. Shortly before he died, Ansel Adams remarked on the inroad of electronics into fine art photography, and wished he could be around to see where that went. Digital vs. film does not have to be a choice- there is plenty of room for both. unc
 
My mistake. My digital camera is a Panasonic DMC-TZ3. Film camera is a Minolta XTsi with AF 28-80 lens. I don't think film camera is anything terribly fancy or expensive. Forgot what I paid for it.
 
Where do you keep that Farmall "H"? I'd like to drool on it a little! Especially the front tires! My email should be open.
 
I had a Canon AV-1, but it threw craps about 15 years ago and I switched to digital. Still have a few rolls laying around that need to be developed.

Gene
 
20 some years ago it got so expencive could not afford to get developed that I had shot and then have half or more of the roll come back that they would not print for some reason or anouther but charged full ptice as if they printed the full roll. Think there is a bunch of rolls that I shot laying here now. First digital camare had no problems hooking up to computor to prind my own. Camara went bad and what I have had since have had to take card to store to get printed.
 
Seems to be a common scenario. Nothing's really changed, except now you may not even get the negatives back. If your interested, I would be more than happy to develop those rolls for you. Just let me know.

Mike
 
X2 for the film preference for film. There's a couple digital cameras out there that can hold up to 35mm film, but you can buy a new car for what the
companies are asking for them. Well, then it comes down to 4x5 & 8x10. I still don't think you can out digital them. Especially if you're shooting a
high-silvered b&w sheet film. The Leica monochrome camera may come close, though it's also a fortune. Makes me wonder if Ansel would have splurged &
bought one.

Mike
 
The Nikon FM series is still popular & it wasn't more than a few years ago that they dropped the FM10 from the lineup. Don't think they do film anymore.

Unfortunately, Kodak's K-14 process is long dead. The processing chemicals & developing equipment were far too expensive to keep up when digital took over. Not to say that you can't develop Kodachrome. It'll just be in b&w chem's. Can always color-touch on the computer.

Mike
 
What is that real estate inspection thing & is it a good paying gig for someone looking for a little extra cash?

Shooting that much film could be done & developed in an evening. Buuuut, you would need a camera with a 500 exp magazine back & a movie film style (endless) developing system..... a fortune in chemicals & all in big ol' darkroom. So, yep, digital is the way to go there. :v)

Mike
 
You should put that poor thing to use. The OM1 was/is one heck of a workhorse & I bet it misses the daylight. Film is abundant & developing is back to
being a mail-order setup.... well, if you want it done right & get the neg's back.

Mike
 
I developed a roll of b&w through a Rite-Aid when I was living in Washington about three years ago when my chem's expired/burned out. The prints
turned out nice, not exactly $15 nice. It also took an extra week & a half to get back & no negatives. No notice on extra handling time for b&w
either. Which is entirely ridiculous. I sent in a roll of BW400CN, a C-41 b&w film that gets dev'd in a standard dime-store developing machine. I
was a bit irritated & emailed Rite-Aid's corporate. I actually got a nice response with the phone number of their developing lab. I did call
aaaaaand.... not even going to touch on the phone conversation with the foul-mouthed, uppity broad at the Fujifilm lab in PA. And believe me,
"broad" is a word I seldom ever use.

Currently developing on my own, for about 65? a roll, average. ECN-2 for movie film is about another 20?. That soup combo is pricey!

OM-10 by the way, great camera. Hope to have one in my collection some day.

Mike
 
No sir. Got the Waukesha gasser in it. Does your neighbor still use his & what color is it? I hoped to get mine up & running for Rantoul, but such is not the case. It's been a really messed-up year here & just didn't get time. Poor thing is still hiding under a tarp.

Would be neat to see a pic of your neighbors rig. There weren't a lot of them made & only a handful left that I can tell. Including a nice yellow one in Australia? New Zealand maybe? Can't remember, but it turns up in an internet search.

Mike
 
I had to look up the istD. What a neat camera. The K1000 is ye ol' standby for many folks. I own three of them. All of them are the early Japanese made Asahi's & still work great. Easy to work on, too. Wish I could say that about my Zeisses. My last working Contaflex went tight on me last year. It was the first I learned to shoot on.

How do you like the PB20 & will it take 120 rolls?

Developing is still fun, at least to me. Nowadays, I recommend a daylight tank. There's a nice, new one that was just released this month called Lab-Box. It's like an updated Rondinax that handles 35 AND 120! Has a bunch of other new features also.

Mike
 
Wanted to start off with an ooooh & aaaah! That Grayflex is an awesome camera!! There's a Super Speed on my "to git" list. A Calumet will be after that. Must have a variety of backs with that one. Had to look up the Petri. Neat camera. Looks like a cross between a SPII and a Kowa SET. May put that one on my list as well. Brownies.... well there were a few options... over the course of 80 or so years. You have 117, 120, 116, 124, 122, 125, 130, 127, 620, and then the name transferred to a 110, which I think was part of the new Star line of instants.

How do you like the hi-gain 8? I currently have a Zeiss 808 & think I may be old & dead before Kodak comes out with their promised Super 8.

Mike
 
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