Are you still using film? or are you digital?

[Jonathan Long]

How many of you are still using film camera's?

If you're using film... are you using a point and shoot or an SLR?

How many are using digital only?

Point and shoot or SLR?

I'm just curious, I've got all of my pro gear (film) sitting around. Now I only shoot digital unless someone needs 2 1/4 or larger negatives or slides. Or if I need to shoot something and make perspective corrections..

What about you?

[Cindi Hammons]

Mark and I have two Mamiya 645 medium format cameras. One Canon Elan 35mm film SLR. A Canon D30 Digital SLR and a Canon 10D Digital SLR.

I don't shoot with the Mamiyas...they are Mark's toys. I am totally digital now. I don't like B&W digital as well as film B&W...too much time on Photoshop to get the look I like with digital.

Some people drive fancy cars or have expensive homes...we like our cameras! Ha! Ha!

Cindi H.

[Joel Merrill]

I am totally digital now. I still have my film cameras and my darkroom equipment but I have them all packed away. I use a Pentax digital SLR and I love it.

I need a good film scanner if any of you have any recomendations. I have wasted my money on two of them and they were both junk.

Joel.

[Jonathan Long]

Joel,

What are you looking to scan? what format? and what use?

Jon

[Joel Merrill]

Joel,

What are you looking to scan? what format? and what use?

Jon
When I first got serious into photography all serious photographers were shooting slides. So I have hundreds and hundreds of 35mm slides. I have a slide copier lens for my camera but I haven't been too happy with it. It would cost way too much to send all those slides to a lab to be done.

Before I had a computer and a scanner I had a copy stand and lens. I went around to all of my older relatives and copied all of their photo albums with B&W film. I have no idea how many rolls I shot. I developed all of the negatives and made contact sheets and put them all in 3 ring binders but I have never had time to print them. Now several of those relatives have died and the few people who can identify the people in those pictures aren't going to be around much longer. I just don't have time to print them all in my darkroom. They are all 35mm too. I have some 120 film but I have printed all of those that are important.

I have an old Yashica-Mat Twin Lens Reflex camera. I love the camera but I have no way to mount filters onto it. Modern 35mm film is good enough that I haven't used 120 film unless it was something that I knew I was going to blow it up really big.

I am primarily an artist. I also paint. I first bought a cheap point and shoot camera when I was in high school to shoot painting ideas. I didn't have time to stop and sketch everything I thought I might like to paint. I started getting real trigger happy with a camera way back then. Then when I started a family I needed a better camera. I bought a used Vivitar SLR. I didn't know how to use it so I started reading books. Then I started buying lenses and filters and other stuff. I love art and I love mechanical things. I was hooked. I found out that I could frame my photography and sell it. It didn't sell as well as my paintings but I didn't really make any money on my paintings if I considered all of the hours I put into them and I didn't have time to paint like I used to.

I read more books and started experimenting with night photography, special effects, and even pin hole photography. I bought a better camera and even a back up camera. I did weird stuff like putting my camera up on a kite. I got a fisheye lens and had a blast with it. Then a pastor friend of mine asked me if I would shoot a wedding. He said that the couple couldn't afford a photographer and it was me or their Uncle Fred with a point and shoot. So I shot it and it was kind of fun. Word got out and college students and people I work with started asking me to shoot weddings. Most of these were small weddings but I soon found out that weddings have a way of starting out small until the mothers get involved:basic03. So some of them were not so small by the time the big day came around. So I shot quite a few weddings over a 10 year period and a few other special events and senior pictures. I also shot slides for some other artists in town who needed professional slides for juried art shows.

I had a friend at work who had been into photography and had a business at one time. He had a darkroom but he didn't use it anymore. One day he was cleaning house and gave me his set up. He had a nice enlarger with a color head. I put a sink in a spare bedroom and light proofed it and had a permanent darkroom. I was getting pretty good at it but I didn't have time to develop all of the film I shoot.

Then my good 35mm camera died. I figured that I had well over 1000 rolls through it. I have two other 35mm cameras. One is strictly manual and one has AE but it is still pretty basic. I decided that I was not going to buy another film camera. I took my time and read up on the different cameras that were out and finally bought my Pentax *istD. It's goofy name but I love the camera. When my 35mm died I told people that I am not going to shoot wedding any more.

Joel

[Hans Deventer]

Jonathan,

We bought our first digital camera in 2002, a Nikon Coolpix 4500. That changed it all. Pretty soon, I gave my analog SLR + lenses away to a niece of mine. In november 2004 I bought the Nikon D70, a digital SLR. Now Hannie uses the 4500 and I use the D70. We both love taking pictures, she's more in to the small stuff and the 4500's macro is terrific. Also, the design makes it very well suited for the task.
I'm into landscapes and love to have the manual zoom again, the looking through the lens itself and higher ISO options of a DSLR.

[Doris Grant]

I have not crossed over to digital yet. I have a Canon AE-1, 35mm, that I have had for years. It is the camera I used when I worked at the newspaper. It is getting pretty tired, I always used it manually. I recently bought a Minolta Maxxium 50, it is pretty much all automatic, don't like it as much and the Canon. I find the more bells and whistles it has the less I like it.

Doris

[Cindi Hammons]

I have not crossed over to digital yet. I have a Canon AE-1, 35mm, that I have had for years. It is the camera I used when I worked at the newspaper. It is getting pretty tired, I always used it manually. I recently bought a Minolta Maxxium 50, it is pretty much all automatic, don't like it as much and the Canon. I find the more bells and whistles it has the less I like it.

Doris


Doris,

When Mark and I got married, he had a Canon AE-1 Program. We loved that camera! Then, about 7 years ago, someone broke into Mark's car...where he had left the camera. Bye, Bye AE-1 Program. We replaced it with the Canon Elan because they theives had not taken our lenses, etc. I am sold on Canon. They, along with Nikon, seem to be the top of the Digital field. I loved my DSLR, but I confess, once you start, you always want the newest and best technology!!!!! And that "ain't" cheap!!

Cindi H.

[Charlene Clevenger]

For our anniversary, we bought ourselves a Canon Power Shot A510. Not the top of the line, but It'll do the job for us. We haven't used our film cameram much since then.

[Cecil Wallace]

How many of you are still using film camera's?

What about you?

I use my digital Kodak DX 4300 almost exclusively.

My old Minolta MD11 SLR is packed away. It is a great camera, but needs some repair (leaky seal.)

My next camera will probably be a Digital SLR with zoom capability.

[Walter Thompson]

I still like the 35mm cams. I have a great digital too but sometimes the pics on the 35mm is clearer and brighter than what I took on the 35mm. It's mostly settings but I don't change them.

[Doris Grant]

If I am doing faces there is nothing like a 35mm with 100 speed film. I have not seen a digital that does faces that are not grainy when enlarged.

Doris

[Jonathan Long]

You're kidding, right?

Jon