Film camara's

[bblaze]

Pulled one of my old film camaras out of moth balls today. Its an old pentax with a 28 to 210 lens.
Going to buy some rolls of black and white and shoot some shots, havnt played with film for about 14 years.
If I get real keen I may even look at developing again
Just love black and white, does any an else tinker or have you in the past.
cheers
blaze

[Disco_owner]

Hi Mate;

I use to lurv taking black & white shots with my Pentax LX1 , and MZ-S. I've still got all my Pentax Lenses in the draw , which will be going on Evilbay shortly ,but I doubt anyone would still buy Film Cameras thou.:(

[vnx205]

Yes.
My Pentax is an ME Super, about 25 or 30 years old.

Not only do I do a bit of basic darkroom work myself, but I am currently teaching "Wet Photography" as it tends to be called now, to Year 11 students.

It still has the capacity to interest even young people who have grown up with cameras in their mobile phones.

[bblaze]

I reckon some of the best portraits are black and white.
cheers
blaze

[chunk]

I still use my 1985 model Nikon FM2 regually I also have a Nikon FT2 that I some times use. There is still a good market for the old 35 mm film cameras.

[vnx205]

I still use my 1985 model Nikon FM2 regually I also have a Nikon FT2 that I some times use. There is still a good market for the old 35 mm film cameras.
I suspect only for the good old 35mm cameras, like Nikons or some of the other name brands. Is that right?

[chunk]

I suspect only for the good old 35mm cameras, like Nikons or some of the other name brands. Is that right?

The camera club in Sydney has sale twice a year, I've been a few times now and its a great place for a bargan. The place is always packed and a lot of money changes hands. 35 mm and the medium to large format camera's are the main sales and any of the really old camera's are collectable, but you can still get a few dollars for the old the box Brownie. Next time your at the newsagents look in the camera section for a yellow covered book it's like the trading post for camera stuff.

[Mick-Kelly]

All i know is that the Pentax wet film SLR i bought in 2001 is completely worthless now and just sits on the cupboard collecting dust. I look at them on fleabay every now and then and get depressed seeing a 700 dollar camera selling for 15 bucks.

[Chucaro]

My Nikon 801s is worthless as well..........$150.00 perhaps?

[chunk]

digital camera's don't hold value either I bought a 4 meg canon 5 years ago for $1350. I couldn't give it away now, I bought the kids a pentex optio e 60 each for xmas 10 meg $140 each.

[werdan]

I have a Minolta 9000 I still play around with from time to time. I used to have a darkroom about 2 houses ago. I pre-plumbed an area under this house when we built it but went digital before I ever did anything with it. Instead I've been working my way through a bulk loader full of 10yo TMAX-400.

To process the film without a darkroom, I load the daytank with the film inside a photographic change bag. A change bag is a largish double-lined lightproof bag with 2 arm holes that large format photographers can use to reload plates (I think). I used to use it for camera malfunctions/swapping rolls mid-film etc..

Of course, once in the daytank, the film can be processed normally. After it is developed, I use a film scanner to scan the negs and then go from there.

What I like about my film camera is that my wide angle lenses are still real wide angle lenses.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/02/1.jpg

[Bushie]

I used to process my own slides back in the 70s :eek: Mainly because I could do them when I wanted, and I didn't have to send them down to Melbourne.

IIRC mostly ektachrome.

Martyn

[Disco]

My all time favourite 135 format cameras:

Nikon F4s
Nikon F5
Nikon F2T (High speed)

I still use them regularly on assignment.

[Slunnie]

What I like about my film camera is that my wide angle lenses are still real wide angle lenses.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/02/1.jpg
Nice pic!

True though, that is something which disappoints me about my DSLR, not having a full frame sensor. It is good when chasing zoom, but its really hard to get wide angle photographs without resorting to stiching. Its such a shame to have such a good 35mm body stuck away in the cupboard though - with no real destiny.

[dmdigital]

Nice pic!

True though, that is something which disappoints me about my DSLR, not having a full frame sensor. It is good when chasing zoom, but its really hard to get wide angle photographs without resorting to stiching. Its such a shame to have such a good 35mm body stuck away in the cupboard though - with no real destiny.
There are a number of super wide lenses now available in both prime and zoom that are specifically developed for the consumer DSLR APC sensor size market. On the other side of the coin though is the fact your 200mm becomes a 350mm.

Of course the other two things that are moving forward are the four thirds and the full frame sensor camera ranges.

One of the things I love about digital is the ability to stitch a wide panorama together so easily.

[Taz]

I'm still using 35mm manual focus minolta gear, mostly with Rokkor lenses. I've just ordered a film scanner as I expect to do more with film in the future. I also use digital, particularly when I dont have much time.
I think film still has merit over digital in certain circumstances and I dont think film will be going away anytime soon!