should I keep my medium format cameras
Feb 1, 2017 15:47:07 #
Feb 1, 2017 17:45:26 #
Keep every thing you own. I sold an old 1950's Gerrard transcription turntable on Ebay to a guy in Japan who bid $3,400.00 for it. What makes people want other people's stuff? God bless them all. Anyone want a Rollei Prego 145? I have one that had one roll of film run through it. It's less than $3400.00.
Feb 1, 2017 18:13:58 #
To me, its a matter of convenience and immediate fe ed-back. I know shooters are in love with their film h/w, that's ptetty much where us ancient types started out. But unless you are a diehard film type, I'd put your old film stuff on the market, and enjoy the current digital world. There will likely be film shooters around for a long time, but sooner or later . . . . .
Feb 1, 2017 18:40:32 #
I sold my medium format cameras as soon as I went digital. I got $400. for each. A year later I saw them selling on Ebay for $90. They served me well shooting weddings. Now their just door stops.
Feb 1, 2017 22:16:33 #
Hal81 wrote:
I sold my medium format cameras as soon as I went digital. I got $400. for each. A year later I saw them selling on Ebay for $90. They served me well shooting weddings. Now their just door stops.
Nope! Now, they're getting $400 Each. Loving that money in my bank account!
Feb 1, 2017 23:27:09 #
If you decide you want to sell them, try selling them yourself on UHH or some other site. You will get more for them that way then if you bring them to KEH. They are not going to give you the resale value, as they are in the business to make money. Find out what they are worth and sell them yourself. Check eBay, B&H, KEH, Amazon and Adorama to see what used cameras in the same condition are selling for. Don't give them away cheap to KEH. See what they are worth and what you can get for them. There are people out there that still like to shoot film. I still own my old K1000 and F100, and have been thinking about a medium format film camera myself.
Feb 1, 2017 23:38:06 #
Some people are setting up a small dark room and are using those to develop black and white , and that format is good for that sort
Of shooting , I may even do that myself , I took a course in that years ,there is not much to it ,it's all in measuring amount of developer
Fixer , temperature, timing of solutions, exposer under light , if you get good at it, I'm sure you could make enough to pay for your ongoing
Cost , blowing up black and white of old schools ,church , beach , mountains , land marks in your area ,schools old and new ,
Ocean going love boats, you can sell them to tourist as they get off the love boat have them all made and framed before hand .
Of shooting , I may even do that myself , I took a course in that years ,there is not much to it ,it's all in measuring amount of developer
Fixer , temperature, timing of solutions, exposer under light , if you get good at it, I'm sure you could make enough to pay for your ongoing
Cost , blowing up black and white of old schools ,church , beach , mountains , land marks in your area ,schools old and new ,
Ocean going love boats, you can sell them to tourist as they get off the love boat have them all made and framed before hand .
Feb 1, 2017 23:46:50 #
Film is "dead". But you can still get it. If you need gear (cameras, lenses, enlargers, tanks, reels, etc.), it's cheap. Film's not.
I have a bunch of film gear I'll be selling soon. Nikon FTn, F3, Minolta SRT-200, Bronica ETRSi, Canon A1... and lenses.
I'm way happier with digital than with any of the film gear.
I have a bunch of film gear I'll be selling soon. Nikon FTn, F3, Minolta SRT-200, Bronica ETRSi, Canon A1... and lenses.
I'm way happier with digital than with any of the film gear.
Feb 2, 2017 00:17:40 #
Longshadow said: "I would be very tempted to keep at least one and use a digital camera for guide shots and set the RB or 645 accordingly and shoot. (Then you can coordinate the two using the digital as a control.)"
I would like to know if the film in the camera say on 100 ISO is an exact match to the DSLR sensor at 100 ISO and how does this affect APS-C sensors and also entry level (D3300 Nikon) vs. say D7200 Vs. D810?
If it is NOT the same and the settings are duplicated to the film camera, the images might differ substantially when the photos are developed?
I would like to know if the film in the camera say on 100 ISO is an exact match to the DSLR sensor at 100 ISO and how does this affect APS-C sensors and also entry level (D3300 Nikon) vs. say D7200 Vs. D810?
If it is NOT the same and the settings are duplicated to the film camera, the images might differ substantially when the photos are developed?
Feb 2, 2017 07:06:38 #
Shakes69 wrote:
Longshadow said: "I would be very tempted to ... (show quote)
Obviously you would have to do it initially to get an exposure correlation offset, if any. But once you have that, you should be able to replicate the exposure very closely. As for sensor size difference, it doesn't matter, as you would be using the viewfinder in the film camera. The digital camera would just be used as a glorified exposure meter with visible results before committing to film. It doesn't matter what digital camera because you would be setting up correlation factors for that camera. And yes, you would have to repeat the process for another digital if you used it. Years ago people used to use Polaroid type camera for a similar process.
Feb 2, 2017 07:33:19 #
Feb 2, 2017 12:07:24 #
Keep them for now, I'm keeping my Pentax 6x7s, still shoot them but running low on film!
Feb 2, 2017 15:11:53 #
I would keep them and use them.... I develop my own film in the kitchen sink and scan using an Epson 800... there are things I can do with film that I can't do with digital. Overexpose it by at least one stop and it comes out.... I have a Yashica and Hasselblad medium format and they do a fantastic job with the tremendous lenses that they made back then.... that's my opinion....
Feb 2, 2017 16:01:27 #
Shakes69 wrote:
Longshadow said: "I would be very tempted to ... (show quote)
What " it sounds as if your going to try and shoot film in your digital camera , I know your not , but that's what my brain is reading , if you could it wouldn't have the latitude that digital has you can push a black and white tri x 800 film to a 1600, asa but with digital you can go 200 to way up into the thousands iso, asa . I remember it was a few years back that digital caught up with film , but the sensors they have
Now has surpassed that mild stone .
Feb 2, 2017 18:21:44 #
IBM wrote:
What " it sounds as if your going to try and shoot film in your digital camera , I know your not , but that's what my brain is reading , ....
Not quite sure how you inferred that.
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