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Mar 10, 2020 11:57:17   #
Pablo8 Loc: Nottingham UK.
 
rehess wrote:
Eventually you have to purchase more film.


I have plenty of stock, but do not begrudge buying 5 x 4 sheet film, if the job warrants it.

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Mar 10, 2020 12:04:06   #
speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho
 
Votrepear wrote:
Any film shooters out there? If so what do you shoot with? I shoot mainly medium and large format B&W.


I shoot both, 35mm and MF (most sizes)!

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Mar 10, 2020 13:56:17   #
Bill 45
 
I have had 120 film cameras, Too short of roll of film for me. I have had all kinds of 35mm film cameras, some were so so cameras up to some very good cameras. Kept price below $200.00 for a camera. I down to the following cameras: Zeiss Contessa Retina IIIC Great small cameras to have. Nikkormat FTN with the Nikon lens 43-86mm. Got to own a Nikon. Pentax K-1000 with 50mm lens and 24mm lens. I have had that camera going on 40+ years. Got it second hand back 40+ years and today it is still working great.

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Mar 10, 2020 14:19:33   #
RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA
 
Votrepear wrote:
Any film shooters out there? If so what do you shoot with? I shoot mainly medium and large format B&W.

I’m about split between 35mm, 6 x 7 and 6 x 9, mostly Velvia 50, a bit of black and white. I only use digital for family snapshots and testing in lieu of Polaroid. I don’t get excited about an imitation image on a computer monitor, but there’s something magical about a 6 x 7 transparency on the lightbox under a quality 20X loupe.

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Mar 11, 2020 07:37:23   #
donphotog
 
Votrepear wrote:
Any film shooters out there? If so what do you shoot with? I shoot mainly medium and large format B&W.


Mostly shot digital (Fuji X-T2), but when I shoot film it is Kodak Ektar 100 (color print film) in a 1957 Zeiss Super Ikonta BX/M folding 120 roll film camera.

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Mar 11, 2020 07:44:17   #
Spirit Vision Photography Loc: Behind a Camera.
 
I shoot film exclusively.

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Mar 11, 2020 08:04:57   #
gmango85
 
I use 35mm & 120 using Canon F1 and Mamiya 645, RB67. Tri X & Ektar 100.

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Mar 11, 2020 08:39:31   #
whfowle Loc: Tampa first, now Albuquerque
 
I never really stopped shooting film; just added digital to the mix. I shoot Nikon f, f6, Canon eos-1n, A1, Mamiya 645 and Bessa R. Mostly when I want the film look and speed is not important. I use various Kodak and Ilford b&w films, Fuji Provia and Velvia and Kodak Extachrome slides. I like to use digital for auto racing and BIF. I send to The Darkroom mostly for development, sometimes DR5 or North Coast Photographic.

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Mar 11, 2020 09:40:21   #
burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC
 
Votrepear wrote:
Any film shooters out there? If so what do you shoot with? I shoot mainly medium and large format B&W.


Used to be a film user. In high school/college, I used:

Several amateur box cameras and two Polaroids (as a kid)
Canon FX
Nikkormat FTn
Nikon FTn
Yashica Mat 124G

In my school portrait/yearbook company employment as a multi-image AV producer and creative services photographer, I used:

Nikon FM
Nikon F3 (2)
Bronica SQA
Camerz Classic (long roll portrait camera with 35mm, 46mm, and 70mm full frame magazines, plus the corresponding parallax cams, periscopes, and appropriate portrait lenses)
Camerz ZII (long roll portrait camera with Split-70mm magazine, zoom lens, and periscope)
Canon A1
Bronica ETRSi
Fujifilm 6x17
Calumet 4x5

Most of that was 1979-1988. From 1988 to 2000, I held a series of systems management roles and marketing product development roles in our school portrait lab. I got an inside look at the photo industry, and quite an eye-opening education.

From 2000 to 2005, I worked in our film/digital school portrait lab, running the digital production departments (film scanning, color correction, CD-ROM burning (for yearbook staffs and school admin systems), school "service item" printing (ID Cards, dated stick-on file prints, and many more), plus portrait package printing, wide format inkjet printing, class composite prep and printing...). When we got that working smoothly, I moved on to field training of digital photography (and field operations training and sales training).

I switched to digital in 2003. After that, film had little appeal.

I had learned enough about digital imaging from working through the film-to-digital lab transition to comfortably put my film gear away. It's all in a glass case, as conversation pieces. These days, my only contact with film is to digitize negatives from my youth.

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Mar 11, 2020 09:57:29   #
elliott937 Loc: St. Louis
 
Should anyone feel that film WILL be on the 'outs', I want to tell you that the number of students, enrolled in my physics classes, has actually increased over the past five years. While I enjoy my digital DSLR, I'm excited to see my students ... who are excited about learning film photography.

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Mar 11, 2020 10:43:20   #
TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC
 
I shoot a Canon EOS-1N for 35mm (so I can use all my EF lenses) with Tri-x (of course), FP4 or HP5. For medium format, I shoot an RB67 ProS with either Provia or Velvia (beautiful film for landscapes). I develop and print my own.

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Mar 11, 2020 10:48:29   #
rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA
 
TriX wrote:
I develop and print my own.

I should have said earlier that I am all digital now. I used to shoot slide film - I never made prints. Now I have a professional develop the film, then I scan it myself.

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Mar 11, 2020 11:05:53   #
Phossilphoto
 
I still use film in way too many cameras ranging in size from a minox to a 2x3 press camera. However, with no darkroom printing is digital. (P.S.: I do have a few digital cameras plus a couple to apple products that will produce images. Too many choices.)

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Mar 11, 2020 11:07:25   #
burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC
 
I used

Polaroid 107, 108
Verichrome Pan

Tri-X
Ektachrome 64, 64 Tungsten, 160, 200, 400, plus 5071 and SO-366 duplicating films
Kodachrome 25, 64, 200
Fujifilm Neopan SS
Ilford FP4, Pan F, HP5, Delta 400
Kodak T-Max 100, 400, P3200
Kodalith 6556
Kodak Vericolor II, Vericolor III, Portra 160NC and 400
Fujichrome Velvia and Provia
Eastman 5247 movie film
Eastman 5222 Double-X movie film
Polaroid 4x5 pack film

All-time faves were
Tri-X,
HP-5+,
T-Max 100,
Ektachrome 64 Tungsten,
Kodachrome 64,
Ektachrome 5071 dupe film,
Ektachrome 400

Many are gone, now.

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Mar 11, 2020 12:12:55   #
drobvit Loc: Southern NV
 
Votrepear wrote:
Any film shooters out there? If so what do you shoot with? I shoot mainly medium and large format B&W.


Still occasionally use my Minolta SRT 102 & Maxxum 7000.
Haven't seen mention on here but there's a site named Film Photography Project. I just ordered two new releases of B&W Kodak cine film.
They have a lot of different film, B&W and color, 35mm and up from cassettes to 100ft bulk rolls; great selection/variety. Plus, developing kits,etc. Waaay too many choices.

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