rpavich Loc: West Virginia

Bingo!
Film shooting is fun...from the taking to the developing to the enlarging...fun fun fun.

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

Lol...i JUST posted a comment expressing that very thing!

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

I'm not a professional photographer, and don't pretend to be. As a hobbyist, I don't have the same needs as a typical professional - I have no serious deadlines, and no need to shoot large quantities of images. To me, film photography is simply more enjoyable, the cameras way more fun, and also allows me to shoot medium format at reasonable cost.

wej

I have taken thousands of slides with Ektachrome and enjoyed all of it. Now my spouse has converted all the slides to tiff files that are now in my lightroom. I am on a new mission to do raw digital capture using my 70D and a very dated Beseler Deluxe Dual Mode Slide duplicator. To see if I can improve the slides using raw files from my camera to improve the white balance and overall color of some slides. Has anyone ever used Ektachrome film to do astrophotography extended exposures?

Mark1948

wej: A couple of years back I had my slides, mostly Kodachrome, converted to JPEG's w/ mixed results. I'd love to hear how your project, converting to raw files goes. Thanks

Bike guy Loc: Atlanta

Wow, so sad to hear about deaths. I worked in higher ed for decades and was responsible for the college in my last position, so I know about about the digging up of the floors when the labs were removed.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

Yes I will buy it shoot it.

Why? What rook2c4 said, and I will add that I feel that shooting film forces me to think differently about each shot and to work harder at getting things right in the camera. I feel honing those skills, and that thinking process, makes me better at taking all pictures, including when using a digital cam.

And I fondly remember the bright vivid colors of Ekachrome slides projected on a screen. It will be fun to shoot some Ektachrome, but I will not be able to show the images as slides. All that slide projector equipment is long gone. But of course the images can be scanned and displayed on screen. Almost as good as projected.

Brian in Whitby Loc: Whitby, Ontario, Canada

While I still have a couple of functioning SLRs I don't think I will be buying any film. I never liked Ektachrome; I found it to be much too blue. Now if they brought back Kodachrome, I might reconsider. Hmm, ISO 25 or 64, maybe not.

BebuLamar

I didn't like Ektachrome back in the days but when Kodachrome was discontinued I tried a roll of E100 and it was great. In fact I think the color rendition is better than Kodachrome.

whitewolfowner

I'll take kodachrome over ecktachrome any time.

jaimeblackwell Loc: Lewiston, Maine

Film Allows you to Make your pictures using only exposure time type of glass, and the type of lighting available. After a while, it becomes an art in itself. Modern photography can never get the look or feel of the old days of film. When you look at old portraits and see the sharp or soft focus or appearance that was decided before the picture was taken by a person who knew what look they wanted. My father was a wedding and portrait photog and he started me out with a Rolleiflex 2.8 and a speed graphic. that type of picture cannot be duplicated in lightroom. I use it and it just can't be done. For those that shot film wholeheartedly, hats off to you. teach your kids they will learn what real photography was all about. no auto iso and auto this or that. You figure it out or you lose.

whitewolfowner

Very well said and nothing more to the truth. Very few people had anything past an instamatic camera; the most advanced amateurs had simple rangefinders because you had to know what you were doing to use them and get a decent photo. Today anyone can buy an DSLR, take it out of the box and shoot.

jaimeblackwell Loc: Lewiston, Maine

Thank you!

wej

Mark,

I have been researching how to manage the capture process and process in Adobe Light Room and Photoshop to ensure how the best color ends up being retained. I have discovered that scanning via quality scanner and saving as tiff files is quite different than using a high MP camera capturing the raw images. This is a complete new process for me.
The learning cure is fairly high for me as the slides has no color ICC Profile as a defined input source but capturing in Raw will be no ICC profile defined as I will be viewing in Light Room Adobe Pro RGB and retain that color space through out until I need to output the images to a different media. Right now my Monitor doesn't support Adobe RGB color space but looking to get a new monitor so I can edit in a higher Color Space to show the best images to the family when done.

The original slides were captures with a Asahi Pentax I purchased in Hong Kong in 1967-68 and the 35mm camera was all manual but it had a light meter built in. What a concept. Most images were taken with the 55mm Super-Takaumar F1.4 lens I purchased with it. Still own the camera. I will keep you in mind and let you know how it goes. My spouse started coping the slides with a slide copier that only captured jpeg files & I set up the HP flatbed scanner so she could copy and save to tiff. OK but still wanted to see if I can do better.

Bram boy Loc: Vancouver Island B.C. Canada

Where can I get a set of old head lights , you know the kind where' you opened the lens that was on a hinge , and at
Night you lit a candle that was inside . That was fun you had to stop about every mile because they would blow out
All the time , my dad give me his lighter and I was the fire man for the lights , what fun a, about as much fun as camera
Film , . It may be illegal this day and age , like film should be , because of the cost , call it high way robbery