i was wondering how many people, if any use a film camera.
i have a digital which i use mostly but i also have a film SLR and i love the way film photos look, something about them just cant be copied with digital.
Sometimes with digital photos i just feel the need to go at it with a bit of photoshop, whereas i dont feel the need to alter film.
if many people do use film i might start a film challenge. YO!
yessiree! Although you cannot get it anymore, I harken back to the days of Kodachrome 25. That's right an ASA of 25. You could take a 35mm slide and enlarge it to 32 x 40 and still not see grain. Those days are gone, but I still love the way the old 35mm Rangefinders handle and quality of light and color I get from Veracolor, Sakuracolor, Fujicolor or Agfacolor 35mm and quality optics like the Zeiss-Ikon glass or the Leitz glass. Something to be said about 60 year old optics and good film! Now if I could just find a digital that would take my old glass!
Yes. I still shoot film. I have 4 film cameras. I shoot Velvia slide or Provia. When I do shoot film, I am preparing the shot, just like I did years ago. A little more expensive, yes. But if I am really shooting something I want to make a big print out of, I use film, have them not mount the slides, but push straight to disc, and then I can digital darkroom if I need to. I'll never get rid of my film cameras. They blow digital away...but that is just my opinion.
my mum taught me how to use her pentax k1000 and i wanted a film camera so i got one for my birthday years ago and never really used it but now im getting back into it :)
I still have and use several film cameras all manual, one that I use once in a while is pictured here http://365project.org/rrt/365/2010-02-23 I get a big kick out of it knowing that it still takes nice shots, true, awkward to use, but very rewarding when photo is in hand. Here are a couple fireworks photo's that I took a few years back with it. http://365project.org/rrt/365/2010-02-27
@allison... um yeah its a bit tricky, having to wait until a roll is finished to upload, then it has to be scanned and when i scanned mine it slightly degraded them by washing out the hiighly exposed parts of the photo. but still ok.
I still use my old mechanical Nikon F20, its nearly as old as me and takes fantastic shots. I only get the film developed and scan the film, i find there is not so much difference then. I also find i dnt have to do as much editing, usually just a crop and for portraits eyes and teeth.
My husband was recently scanning in some old photos for his mother - film from about 60 years ago. When we enlarged them on screen we got a real shock - very little degradation! Wow! Digital sure has a lot of catching up to do. Perhaps I should get out my old Nikon film automatic and shoot some photos. it never took a bad shot in any light.
I started off with Film, moved to Digital, and am going slowly back into film (there's just something about it that makes the photo more...real? I can't describe it).
I prefer film over digital it has a better feeling, i mostly have toy cameras (holga, lomo's fisheye & supersampler, smena) but i also have a yashica i have yet to shoot some pictures with it, i have a dslr too, but for some reason my film shots are always better.
I just made the switch from film to digital in November. I love my old film camera, but am becoming a much better photographer with the ability to experiment, shoot a gazillion photos, and instantly see what worked. But I think the quality is better on film than digital.
I too had the images scanned to CD when I dropped it off. They scan from the negative so there is more info available than if you scan the print.
arrr i so want a lomo! holga or diana. i have a cheapo lomo from ebay it has 3 lenses, it is cute but bad quality.
i love having both digital and film. digital is fun for experimenting and taking anywhere, cos i have a point and shoot but it has lots of manual features like a dslr so i can fiddle with them :) but film quality is so beautiful!
My main camera is Canon DSLR, but I'm shooting film fairly regularly using vintage cameras, Olympus OM2n, Zenit 11, Yashika Electro rangefinder, Pentax SF7 and many more. I have a growing collection........ I also have my own home darkroom. So develop and print my own B&W shots.
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Well... to be honest, I just started.
In my photography class at school we use film and manually develop everything.
I actually have 4 film cameras in my house (not including polaroids)!
I mainly shoot with a Nikon EM and develop in a darkroom, B&W at school, or go to Wal-Mart and get them put onto a CD with the negatives on the side.
I'm actually starting to adore it. It's really interesting.
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@stefani: yeh its heaps of fun. id love to have a darkroom and learn how to develop. mum showed me once but that was so long ago.
In saying that, my camera is a digital one :)
maybe for example say one in every 15 photos should be film? duno ayy
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Have Nikon FE78 and Canon AE-1.
Film is great to be honest. I love it :)
Quality is better than digital, to me.
I too had the images scanned to CD when I dropped it off. They scan from the negative so there is more info available than if you scan the print.
i love having both digital and film. digital is fun for experimenting and taking anywhere, cos i have a point and shoot but it has lots of manual features like a dslr so i can fiddle with them :) but film quality is so beautiful!
I have just bought a lomo sampler and uploaded my first roll of crossed processed film with it.
Have a look at mine http://365project.org/fotogirl/365 I have managed a 15x10 enlargement with it, seems ok so far but you never know what you think
i get film from places like big w or just go to a photo shop they'd probably haave some
I was wondering if they'd done a film challenge before, so did you ever do it back in 2010?