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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
10-26-2011, 08:29 PM
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Kneeling on a boardwalk at Yellowstone this June and waiting for a few tourists to pass before I took a shot with the Hasselblad one of the women just in passing said "I hope you have Kodak in that camera". She was not a photographer but a resident of Rochester. I told her only the colour film as the black and white is from Japan. Earlier a Japanese or perhaps Chinese tourist was watching me closely for more than a couple of minutes until she had to rejoin her group, she had a Lecia digital I think around her neck and then later in the week shooting the 4X5 at Mormon Barns in Gran Teton at least three other photographers started conversations with me, none said more than a hello to my wife shooting digital.
I have never shot a LX but I have a F5, no thanks but it was no worse to use than the D1X. Wayne Lynch a fairly successful wildlife and nature photographer from Alberta told me that he used F100s as the F5 was just too big (it might have been the F4 at the time as this was years ago but the point is he did not want to use a big heavy camera).
We are most likely going to go out shooting this weekend and my wife is going to be using my 4X5 and I will use the 1920s Seneca Improved 5X7 and the MZ5n/K-r combination.
Do they still make film for that is a comment I hear fairly often with the large format but some times with the medium format but most of the time it is of curious rather than as a put down. I do wonder while reading these posts, mine included, if perhaps we who shoot film are also less hostile in attitude and therefore less likely to encounter it as well?
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
10-25-2011, 02:52 PM
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Although I do not have stats or evidence to back it I believe that there is more tolerance from digital people for film than 3 or 4 years ago, at least that seems to be my experience. Most of the time I am asked why in a curious not a dismissive manner and some stop to tell about their own (old) experiences and when using the view camera more than once I have been told that they appreaciate seeing some one using the antique cameras. One of my view cameras is 90 years old the other about 10.
For a few years now it reminds me of when mountain bikes first came out, roadies and mountain bikers seems to be opponents but now even though the majority of bikes sold are mountain bikes (or the two types mentioned) but there is not the animosity. In fact I read taht the majority of bikes are mountain bikes but the majority of road bike owners also own mountain bikes. I shoot film because I want to but I also shoot digital when I want to and I really do not care what anyone else thinks. But I will politely answer why if I am asked but I refuse to argue with strangers about it.
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