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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-01-2010, 03:09 AM
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Recently, our hard drive died, wife had not backed up. Every digital photo ever taken, and there were some really good ones:mad:- wiped out except a couple that had been emailed out. Bit like the one that got away, except this was every fish ever caught digitally.
Also find film cameras, being much simpler, are faster to use.By the time you work out which ISO setting and other settings you want, the action is gone. In the good old days,when photographing some function ,the lens was prefocused for the distance I was likely to use, aperture/shutter speed manually dialed in. With wide angle lenses, did not even need to look. For indoor candids, had this setup with the old potato masher-no one escaped my evil intent. Add a waist level finder on the old LX and right angle mirror on the end of the lens and candids at the old drunken uni functions were mine for the taking and adding evil captions for the uni magazine:hmm:
Film, with its finite cost, makes me take more care in composition. I find digital makes me lazy in composition. I remember the good old days when trekking in deep southwest Tasmania or Nepal, I would take much more care with setting up shots to try to make every shot a ripper to conserve film.
Another advantage of film is that the old manual mechanical shutters would still operate without batteries. With experience, I found the meter was rarely used(many of my cameras have dead meters anyway, and are now not worth fixing) and eyeballing the exposure in manual mode works well.
The older digital cameras had excessive delay- almost unuseable for action shots, but all these shots are now gone anyway.
Lastly, the colours are not yet there, but I dare say will be soon.
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