Post by: Brad Johnson on October 15, 2007, 10:41:54 AM
Now they go for twenty five bucks. Gag.
It almost costs that much to ship the dang thing.A rough-but-functional Pentax K1000 still commands $70 or $80. Heck, even the cheapo POS 300mm Sigma lens I bought for the Canon is worth more than the Elan body is now.
Brad
Post by: Manedwolf on October 15, 2007, 10:46:15 AM
Really, the only film cameras that have kept extremely high value are the extremely high-end ones like the Speed Graphic, which still isn't matched by digital for some applications.
Post by: wooderson on October 15, 2007, 10:57:51 AM
Post by: mtnbkr on October 15, 2007, 11:05:41 AM
I have a Nikon N80 and Olympus OM-1md. I love the Om-1, but the Nikon is more practical.
Chris
Post by: wooderson on October 15, 2007, 11:12:15 AM
I don't have a place for a darkroom and scanning film is a nightmare. Keeping the film cameras around for when I want them, though.
Post by: mtnbkr on October 15, 2007, 11:16:05 AM
One thing I like about this method is that I'm left with 3 copies of the pic: Negative, Print, Digital.
Chris
Post by: Sergeant Bob on October 15, 2007, 11:48:55 AM
We scan all of our prints. We get good quality scanning 4x6 prints at the scanner's middle resolution. It's just a n $80 Canon LiDE scanner.
One thing I like about this method is that I'm left with 3 copies of the pic: Negative, Print, Digital.
Chris
One thing I like about this method is that I'm left with 3 copies of the pic: Negative, Print, Digital.
Chris
Its a very good idea to scan all your important pictures. My sister had a large box of old family photos which got lost in a fire. I also keep my negatives in a fire safe.
Post by: charby on October 15, 2007, 12:07:14 PM
I forgot how much the thing weighed when I took it on a trip. They sure were cool back in the late 1990's
Post by: zahc on October 15, 2007, 01:17:47 PM
Post by: mtnbkr on October 15, 2007, 01:22:49 PM
If you're really serious, there are some high end shops that do film, but it costs a lot more. The upside is your prints get more attention.
Chris
Post by: charby on October 15, 2007, 01:23:25 PM
Where do camera people get their film developed? Just walmart or similar, or are there 'better' places to drop your film?
My wife drops her film off at Walgreens, we just shoot snapshots.
-C
Post by: Brad Johnson on October 15, 2007, 01:28:23 PM
Brad
Post by: Headless Thompson Gunner on October 15, 2007, 01:48:45 PM
For serious photography I grab the dslr. But for fun, the Rollei is hard to beat.
Post by: Manedwolf on October 15, 2007, 02:10:19 PM
Post by: Brad Johnson on October 15, 2007, 02:22:18 PM
In-camera conversion to .jpg and some contrast tweaks in Elements.
Post by: thebaldguy on October 15, 2007, 03:06:12 PM
The 35MM film camera sits in the safe, along with my compact Olympus 35MM from 1983, and her 1990 autofocus budget zoom Vivitar 35MM. We took the big slr along on a recent trip to Chicago, but neither of us wanted to lug the camera and bag around. It's back in the safe.
We throw the digital pics on a computer and/or disk. Print them as we want on nice photo paper.
I've seen the one hour photo places closing up now also.
I like having a decent digital camera that fits into a pocket.
Post by: wooderson on October 15, 2007, 03:39:15 PM
Post by: Standing Wolf on October 15, 2007, 03:48:29 PM
Oh. I remember, now.
Sorry.
Post by: Harold Tuttle on October 15, 2007, 04:05:29 PM
film is dead
You can't even get it at Costco anymore
They used to have skids of this really nice 400 Agfa film
Post by: wooderson on October 15, 2007, 04:12:54 PM
I've been meaning to experiment with scanning for contact sheets, but I don't have a flatbed scanner that will take a full sheet at once.
Post by: Headless Thompson Gunner on October 15, 2007, 04:14:17 PM
Post by: 280plus on October 15, 2007, 04:15:31 PM
Post by: wooderson on October 15, 2007, 04:22:45 PM
Post by: mtnbkr on October 15, 2007, 04:45:04 PM
try to get a real B&W contact sheet from a lab
I'll let you know Friday when I pick up my B&W film from Penn. I dropped off 3 rolls for developing and contact sheet rather than prints since two of the rolls sat for a year (got misplaced) and the other was Tri-X 400 pushed to 3200 (in a camera that only goes up to 1600, so I had to manually calculate the exposure).
Chris
Post by: Bogie on October 15, 2007, 06:54:34 PM
www.creativeaccuracy.com
Musta passed out 2-300 business cards at Knob Creek...
Post by: Parker Dean on October 15, 2007, 07:44:42 PM
A rough-but-functional Pentax K1000 still commands $70 or $80.
Huh. Who'd a thunk that a cheap mass market camera would hold its price like that.
Not that I'd sell mine, it's sorta become on of those things that are part of the story of my (boring) life. It'll probably join the accumulated junk like the Karate Kid style head band given me at a going-away party by co-workers, the security officer badges and pins from when I was an armed courier, etc.
Post by: Paddy on October 15, 2007, 08:13:10 PM
Post by: Headless Thompson Gunner on October 16, 2007, 03:32:29 AM
Good tools never lose value.
Post by: mtnbkr on October 16, 2007, 03:58:52 AM
I took this picture of my daughter and godson at a childrens' "hands on" museum in Virginia Beach last year. It was with Fuji ASA 400 print film, handheld with a very slow shutter and mostly open aperture in natural light. The camera was the OM-1 with Zuiko 50mm F1.8 lens. The picture isn't technically perfect, but I like how the lighting and colors turned out. Unfortunately, I couldn't get my daughter to turn around.
Chris
Post by: mtnbkr on October 16, 2007, 04:01:18 AM
I've had the "black lizard" leather on my black Olympus for nearly 7 years now and it's holding up very well.
Chris
Post by: Manedwolf on October 16, 2007, 04:06:55 AM
Post by: mfree on October 16, 2007, 04:27:13 AM
Hrmm. Might be a bit more accurate to play with the channels just a bit to enhance green, then drop the channels.
IIRC old B&W stocks were much more sensitive to green than any other wavelength.
Post by: Bogie on October 16, 2007, 04:35:16 AM
1) When the fill a chip up, they need to go buy a new one
2) They need to take their camera to Wal-Mart or Walgreens to get the pictures "developed"
There be some true geniuses out there...
Post by: Harold Tuttle on October 16, 2007, 04:42:09 AM
was made by printing all the frames and developing the sheet
or is it a digital scan and an ink jet?
Post by: mtnbkr on October 16, 2007, 05:12:43 AM
Chris
Post by: zahc on October 16, 2007, 07:22:25 AM
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The best strategy (for me, anyway) is to buy just behind, or even two generations behind, the latest and greatest. Low price + (almost) state of the art.
Like how you can sometimes buy a practically new vinyl turntable at a garage sale for $20 that some mid 70s audiophile spent $600 on, that still does what it was designed to do very, very well and will probably continue to for decades.
It seems like now, tech moves so fast, nobody makes really good tools. Cellphones have a 1.5 year design life. About the only thing I can think of is appliances and hobbyist stuff.
Post by: Bogie on October 16, 2007, 09:30:39 AM
And you generally aren't going to be able to tell the difference.
Post by: mtnbkr on October 16, 2007, 09:35:38 AM
).Chris
Post by: wooderson on October 16, 2007, 11:25:07 AM
mylab.com - I've used a couple of times, mentioned earlier - is all-chemistry.
Post by: wooderson on October 16, 2007, 11:26:22 AM
Post by: Brad Johnson on October 16, 2007, 11:28:03 AM
Brad
Post by: Harold Tuttle on October 16, 2007, 12:03:46 PM
Post by: wooderson on October 16, 2007, 12:12:18 PM
a Kodak Retinette 1A - no meter, no rangefinder, no nothing but a lens that's clear and a shutter that works for $9
a pair of Polaroid SX-70s from the mid-70s - one that takes the original SX-70 film (which is currently $2 a shot, so this one's mostly going to be a decoration), one that takes current 600/779 film
last week I got a Canonet rangefinder for $30 and I have two 1950s Agfa cameras coming from the Netherlands
Digital has advantages, but every time I try to get serious with it I find that it lacks the magic of film.
Post by: brimic on October 16, 2007, 04:45:00 PM
Post by: mtnbkr on October 16, 2007, 05:15:41 PM
the beauty of a chemistry contact sheet is you could have 3 different brackets and request they expose for each one
True, but I'm not doing that kind of work. If I was, I'd find a different lab regardless of the contact sheet issue.
Chris