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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
02-14-2012, 10:14 AM
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And here's something I wonder about... "preserving information", as someone in the video mentioned... The technology changes so fast, (it seems hardly any time since I was reading in photo magazines about the new high-end cameras with as many as 6 megapixels) ...& I wonder, in 50 or 80 years or so, will the digital images shot on today's technology be somehow lost, or not readable with the technology then? Will it be so different that today's digital formats will be awkward or inaccessible?
I thought about that a while back when I unearthed a bunch of 80+ year old negatives & scanned some for a photo book for my dad. Miscellaneous little pieces of randomly-sized film; they scanned just fine & except for the clothing styles, they might have been taken much more recently.
I wonder what the date on the video was. It's kind of sad or ironic, or something... that it was made by a company that's gone bankrupt... :(
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
02-05-2012, 06:55 PM
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????!! The level of paranoia one hears about is startling. There was a thread a while back about the L.A. police dept (I think?) & some homeland-security-type regulations about suspicious activity, including people taking pictures.
Seriously, if you were either casing a joint to rob it, or figuring out where to put the bomb, would you be so obvious as to stand in the middle of the street with a camera?
Shees!! :hmm:
"Well, it's a little tricky but not really that hard... I took out the quantum converters and realigned the histogram capacitors; then all you have to do is make sure your CCD flux generators are properly ISO-calibrated when you load the film... I could show you but I left my sonic screwdriver at home."
:lol:
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
02-03-2012, 02:48 PM
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This thread also reminded me of a photo workshop I was on out west. There were only 3 of us plus the leader, & the other 2 guys were digitrolls. (Sorry -- can't resist that word sometimes.) We stopped along a roadside where there were some aspens with nice fall colour. One guy would shoot, no kidding, a couple hundred pictures, of a patch of trees, in about 20 minutes. It was unreal. I'd shoot 3 or 4, all carefully composed, exposure checked etc., because I couldn't afford to waste film. The same thing happened most of the places we stopped.
We'd get back to the lodge after dark, have supper, be tired... digital guy was moaning about how it had been a long day & how tired he was & he STILL had to go upstairs & spend an hour or 2 downloading a thousand pictures ... (and I think he had technical problems with that too).
I said, "Oh, man, I hear ya. I'm really tired too. And now I have to go upstairs and rewind a whole film, and get another one out of my camera bag and put it IN."
At least on that expedition the teasing was good natured. It went back & forth; they had techy problems, I ran out of film; so it was kind of an even match. It's the people who feel a need to tell you how out of date you are that really bug me.
This is in danger of turning into a rant, but why the heck do these people feel they need to tell someone else what they ought to shoot with? I can't think of another thing that people seem to do this with. I mean, you don't hear "What do you want an old Ford for? Anyone who's up to date has a Toyota these days", or "You still have that old poodle? Poodles are so passe. Bernese Mountain Dogs are where it's at now, you know". Or, [insert item here] !
If they love their digital, good for them. Go have fun with it. I won't try to "convert" them "back". But I choose film & that's my affair so shut up already! :p
Your camera should be something YOU are comfortable with & enjoy, be fun to use, & give you the results you want. It doesn't matter what the next guy's using if you like what YOU have.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
02-03-2012, 12:15 AM
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This was an interesting thread. Coming along a little late, but it was entertaining to read what reactions other film shooters get. Goodness, if I got all the negatives MysteryOnion gets I'd lose my patience in a big hurry.
I've had mixed reactions. I sell prints locally & meet a lot of tourists, & for a while it seemed that everyone felt a need to "evangelize" me, even saying things like "oh, you'll switch soon. You WILL." 1 or 2 summer residents consistently nag "have you switched to digital yet?" each year. I shut one up by telling him about the $11 keychain camera I got at Home Hardware (it's a POC but it's digital!). Tourists go on about how great their digicams are, but it's set on automatic & they don't know what half the functions are.
Lately though, I've had a few people say, "Oh, yes, the quality from film is so much better" which always surprises me because I thought digital was considered to have "caught up" quite some time ago. Maybe they've got $11 hardware-store cameras too.
I get, "You must have a really good camera, to get that shot." I smile & say, "Yes, I do."
The majority of the tourists suggest I "should switch". (Why? What's it to THEM??) Gets old fast.
On a transatlantic sailing trip, I was really pleased to find that quite a number of the other (younger) crew members thought it was "really cool" that I shot film. One of them had his camera roll overboard in a 20-ft sea. I would've been gutted -- he took it really well, & said "Now I can get a real camera, like yours."
In Ireland, I was astounded to find you could still buy slide film in drugstores. And an environment-ministry photographer who showed up to take a few (digital) pix of a tour we were on, appeared with a lens as long as my whole camera bag, & with barely a glance he identified what I was carrying & the first thing out of his mouth was "Well, someone here has a real camera." :lol:
Finally, doing souvenir sales at another port back in Canada for the same ship, I looked at literally several thousand people traipse through, many with postage-stamp-sized cameras, and felt myself a very lonely film user in a digital world. Finally one woman appeared & I think I scared her. I said, "HEY, that's a FILM camera," & I'm sure my eyes got very big & shiny. I was hoping for some sense of instant kinship!, but she started going on about how it was all she had & she didn't have time to go to the drugstore & get one of those disposable ones, & she wanted pictures of the ship so this was all she could bring, like she was apologizing for it. Shees.
So, it's been really mixed. But I get really sick of people telling me they think I should switch, as if it has anything to do with them at all! I can't make people like that understand that I LIKE THE PROCESS of shooting with film.
Anyway, it's been nice to know there are other film shooters out there... there sure aren't any others in my little corner of the world!
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