Not selling my film cameras: I have a Yashica-12 (which is selling on Ebay for $250) and a Nikon 6006. I'm not selling either one, and I don't plan to abandon film totally, although...

SteveR Loc: Michigan

I have a Yashica-12 (which is selling on Ebay for $250) and a Nikon 6006. I'm not selling either one, and I don't plan to abandon film totally, although I'm in the process of learning digital. Perhaps the best results I've had were from Yashica's 2.36"x2.36" format, but my Canon ftb, totally manual was my workhorse. Film development was expensive, but I'm not giving film up totally. Is anybody else with me?

Pepper Loc: Planet Earth Country USA

I have a Minolta 7000 that I still enjoy and have no plans to part with it.

randymoe

Heck, I am buying film cameras, I have an excellent Yashica A I paid $41 delivered. I just bought an as new Mamiya RB67 SD for a song. I am now collecting German folders. For far less than one of the latest digital FX cameras I am setting up up a film darkroom and all the mechanical cameras I want. Digital will never be collectable, except for lenses. And even those now have way too much electronics.

I chased the digital dream for 15 years, but in retirement I prefer to rejoin the analog past. The common theme I get from eBay sellers is a sincere thank you for buying, at give away prices, their equipment they no longer use. They prefer giving it away to throwing it out!

SteveR Loc: Michigan

Randy....As you work with film vs. digital, how would you compare the results. Certainly digital is more convenient, but does it produce better results?

randymoe

It really is apples and oranges.

There is no argument that high end digital is very, very good, with $40,000 cameras.

However most of us can only look and not do. I like film and darkroom because we can pursue our images without insane big buck technology.

Watching a B & W print develop under red light is always magic!

Digital is a money race and always obsolete.

The results are judged by collectors with money and museums with money. Art is in the eye of the beholder.

SteveR wrote:

Randy....As you work with film vs. digital, how would you compare the results. Certainly digital is more convenient, but does it produce better results?

egnblack Loc: San Jose, Ca.

I am also buying film cameras. In my opinion, nothing beats film. I like things that are mechanical, and old film cameras are just that. Anyone can get a shot out of a digital camera, but I enjoy the magic that a film camera gives.

alienmurphy Loc: Alaska

I no longer use my film cameras nor am I going to sell them. They have become paper weights and book ends. I still have my first film camera; a cheap point and shoot 110 Agfa that I got with green stamps 40 years ago.

rfbccb Loc: Central Mississippi

alienmurphy wrote:

I no longer use my film cameras nor am I going to sell them. They have become paper weights and book ends. I still have my first film camera; a cheap point and shoot 110 Agfa that I got with green stamps 40 years ago.

I bet you found that one in the S & H Green stamp catalog. I guess that gives a clue to our ages.

alienmurphy Loc: Alaska

Yep! And I still have those skinny strips of developed film.

rfbccb wrote:

alienmurphy wrote:

I no longer use my film cameras nor am I going to sell them. They have become paper weights and book ends. I still have my first film camera; a cheap point and shoot 110 Agfa that I got with green stamps 40 years ago.

I bet you found that one in the S & H Green stamp catalog. I guess that gives a clue to our ages.

Judy Loc: SW Missouri

Funny that just yesterday I had a conversation with my high school photography teacher (30 + years ago, by the way) about missing the old 35mm cameras. I'm with you guys -- not selling out!! I still have my little Brownie that I got for my 8th birthday!! I do love the new technology tho!!

dennis g

The process of using a film camera can be pleasant.
It is a tactile thing with a nice simplicity about it.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I'm with you. For photos that have a short deadline, or a large quantity, digital is the fastest way to provide what a client wants. For myself and my own work, film is still the preference, but I will shoot digital, as well.

As for performance, film has it over digital. The detail and exposure control with film is far superior.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I guess I'm the radical in the group. I have sold all of my film cameras - except my Minox C, which is no longer worth enough. I loved them when I was using them, but they were just sitting there in boxes and cases. I sold them on ebay, and made some people happy. My Nikon F went to Dublin, Ireland, and I gave my Yashica TLR to a friend, and she loved it.

I like my DSLRs, and I have no desire to try to find film, get it developed, and see what I should have done differently when I get the pictures back. Besides, shooting digital is so much cheaper, and I see the results immediately.

randymoe

Good for you for finding new homes for your unwanted technology!

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Rollo62 Loc: Memphis, TN

I also have a canon FTb along with many other film cameras plus two DSLR's. There is alot to be said for digital in that you can experiment & see immediate results without the cost & wait of developement. But some of my old glass is priceless. The camera my granddaughter is holding is a German Robot Star II.

SteveR wrote:

I have a Yashica-12 (which is selling on Ebay for $250) and a Nikon 6006. I'm not selling either one, and I don't plan to abandon film totally, although I'm in the process of learning digital. Perhaps the best results I've had were from Yashica's 2.36"x2.36" format, but my Canon ftb, totally manual was my workhorse. Film development was expensive, but I'm not giving film up totally. Is anybody else with me?

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