Anyone still using film?

whitecrook

whitecrook

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Hi all

I got a K1000 a few years ago, but it's been lost for the last year or more.
I got a D40 with couple of lenses, and that was pretty decent, still is, but I want film. I want the autofocusing, metering of the D40, with the film and handling of the pentax.

So I'm looking at F100s..

So has everyone given up on film by now?
 
May i ask why you want to use film? A friend of mine insists that film is better and i tries to explain that digital gives you more options and creativity.

Also said we no longer take a horse and carrige to work, as times move on which may not have endeared my self to her. :)
 
Still use film here, generally don't digitise them but if I am feeling lazy I will send the films off to get developed and they normally put them onto a disc for you. Otherwise I do the developing in the downstairs toilet :D
 
I've been using a pentax MV with a couple of lenses (50mm and 70-210mm) and have found it to be an excellent way to get into photography. I got a canon flatbed scanner with film input to digitize the processed negs.
 
mangobreeder said:
May i ask why you want to use film?
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Cos I'm an amateur, doign it for enjoyment. I takes pictures of my family for the memories, to look at again in some years, I'm not using it to produce something that'll be digitally manipulated into media type thing e.g. brochures or other things. I don't need a digital workflow. I don't need to see my pics in print or on the web 30 seconds after I've taken them.

Go look at some scans of some slides or something the quality is evident.

But the biggest for me is the complete reversal of workflow.

Digital :

Digicam -> Computer -> backup -> print -> archive

Film:
Camera -> print/slides -> digitise -> Archive

Digital what tends to happen is the first stage, and sometimes the second, and rarely the 4th (i.e. actual printing !) This makes me a sad panda.

With Film the 'immediate' result is a tangible thing, that can be stored and looked at in 10 or 20 or 30 years without any intervention!

It worries me that in 30 years from now shooting digital my kids might not be able to even view the pictures, what I f I have some catasrphic backup problem? Why should I even need to be worrying about backups? yuck.


As for cost, I don't shoot hundred of pics all the time - a roll of film a week and the variety of using different film type provides for experimentation etc. yadda
 
I've got an EOS 5 35mm camera that I'm still using with all the lenses I use with my 30D.
There's certainly something to be said for that excitement while you're waiing for the film to be printed to see if you've got anything half decent.
 
I've Contax 35mm and 645 sitting in two camera bags, :(:( but have purchased a few mounts so I can use lenses on my Canon DSLR. On the seventh day God made Zeiss T*:D
 
I still put a roll of B&W film through my EOS 5 from time to time.

I like messing about with the darkroom stuff; there's something magical about watching the image appear on the print that you just don't get with digital.
 
whitecrook said:
cool.

Do you digitise your films? If so, yourself, or do you get it done when getting it developed/printed?
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Sometimes. I develop the negatives myself, then just use my scanner which has the 35mm adapters, works OK - haven't scanned many for a while, mind!
 
shot a few B&W films recently on a nikon FE2. As said above, it's just for the enjoyment of it really. I like playing about in darkrooms with chemicals:)
 
I shot a roll of B&W with my LX about three years ago, digital has taken over here. That reminds me, I’d better check it.
 
Yes, i've just got my hands on one of these

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and some ilford hp5 to run through it. Its actually going to make me think about exposure and composure properly rather than clicking away at 8fps and hoping for a winner! Can't wait to get the film processed and see the results.
 
I've just gone ultra old school and bought a pin hole camera, film arrived the other day. I was leaning towards setting up my own dark room but I think I'll just get the film developed to see how things turn out first. All the kit is a bit more expensive than I thought as well, so a macro lens for the 7D comes first!



I have no idea what I am doing with this so 5 over\under exposed rolls of film coming right up!
 
Rojin said:
I have no idea what I am doing with this so 5 over\under exposed rolls of film coming right up!
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If you are sending your film in for developing, be sure they don't correct for exposure otherwise you may get back 10 rolls of film all identical, even though you under/over exposed them :)
 
Rojin said:
I was leaning towards setting up my own dark room but I think I'll just get the film developed to see how things turn out first. All the kit is a bit more expensive than I thought as well
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I've not looked recently so I don't know if much still gets listed, but I have bought darkroom equipment off ebay in the past for next to nothing.
 
southy1978 said:
Yes, i've just got my hands on one of these

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and some ilford hp5 to run through it. Its actually going to make me think about exposure and composure properly rather than clicking away at 8fps and hoping for a winner! Can't wait to get the film processed and see the results.
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I have one of those and the shots I got back were really good. Need to dig it out again but the shutter sticks, so might need to fix it properly first.
 
I'll be shooting some tomorrow, I mostly produce wet prints but sometimes scan them at home too. I still think a good b&w wet print takes some beating. I ll shoot digi too, hired a d3x for the day :-)
 
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