aellman Loc: Boston MA

Bill: Search "antique cameras" and "vintage cameras" on ebay, and you'll find a lot of choices. Confirm with the seller that they have been tested and are in operating condition, and only buy from sellers that offer a return policy. These cameras use film in many different sizes, most no longer available from retail sources. You can get film for many old cameras here: http://www.filmforclassics.com/ If you have any other questions, send me a private message.

redhogbill Loc: antelope, calif

I'll bet it gets heavy!!!
thank you Gas for the input

redhogbill Loc: antelope, calif

thank U

DJO

Certain types of film and Polaroid cameras have become very fashionable with the idle rich because they want other people to know that they are spending $5.00 to $10.00, or more, each time the press the shutter.

aellman Loc: Boston MA

Also for the 1%, purchase an Arca Swiss Monolith 8x10 view camera for almost $11,000. They may have no idea what to do with it, but it looks so cool on a vintage wooden tripod in the "great room." If you want to see work by a guy who creates amazing images with an 8x10 and a Leica, Google Joel Meyerowitz.

Kuzano

Whatta bunch of BS. I'm pressing the shutter on 4X5 at about $1.00 a sheet.

I'm not part of your "idle rich". I'm 72 on SSI and having a ball with film and those camera's

Film is in fashion
Film is available
There are processing labs all over the country
There are new Processing labs starting up all the time
ProPhoto Labs in Portland Oregon built a new processing lab for film, digital and printing wet and digital just a few years ago
Ilford just created a brick and mortar presence in California about three years ago
It's a growing Niche market with lots of attendance
Large Format camera's have been built in growing number throughout the digital stink.
I've been buying and reselling film camera's (mostly large format) for 15 years.
Use price market has never been higher.
New price market in Large Format is as high as it's ever been.
New film emulsions are being created and sold
Home processing is being done with daylight equipment
You don't need a dark room to Process film.

Check yo facts Jack... You're likely to piss someone off.

One of the glaring facts is that some people are simply done with digital and going to film... even those who have never shot film. Some are going BACK to film as well. I shoot some digital, but have shot film throughout. More now than digital.

I'm tired of the lie that digital is free and Film costs more. Per shot maybe.... but how about per "Keeper"... no!


:hunf:

Darkroom317 Loc: Mishawaka, IN

I can't believe how pervasive the digital is free myth is. Is anyone going to tell me that their digital camera, lenses, computer, software, cards, printer, inkjet paper and ink is free, because none of it is. My digital camera and lenses are far more expensive than any of my film equipment.

However, I will give digital credit. It has made most things involving film cheaper.

SharpShooter Loc: NorCal

Yes, many do use those, especially the smaller 4x5 cameras. It's the cheapest way to get very large files with lots of detail in both color and B&W.
BUT, with modern day stitching, it's possible to get there easier and with digital, especially with fairly inexpensive cameras like Canons new 5Ds!!!
Photography, it is a changing!!! ;-)
SS

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

In the daze of film, every 36 times I pressed the shutter button, I paid for another roll of Kodachrome and Kodak processing. Now, I spend nothing at all.

I spend no more on camera and lenses than I did before. I use free software such as gimp. I buy no paper nor ink for printing, because I have never made prints. The computer is the same one I use for everything else in our house; the disk space devoted to my images is a small increment to what I would already be doing. Every few years I buy another memory card. I am absolutely certain that digital photography costs me much, much less than film photography ever did.

Darkroom317 Loc: Mishawaka, IN

Stitching takes more time and is more complicated. With large format high resolution can be achieved at the time of pressing the shutter which you only need to press once.

aellman Loc: Boston MA

IMHO, this is a specious argument. If you love film, you shoot film. If you love digital, you shoot digital. Each one has it's advantages, and it's a very personal and subjective choice. Most photographers don't wake up in the middle of the night worrying about the relative cost per shot. You do what makes you happy and gets the best results.

Collie lover Loc: St. Louis, MO

What is wet plate collodion?

Darkroom317 Loc: Mishawaka, IN

Tintypes, Ambrotypes and Collodion glass negatives

Here is a video about the process by a friend of mine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj9ceWR1a_0

Here is an article on Ambrotypes

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/589_ambrotype.html

Here is an article on Tintypes

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/589_tintype.html

There is also dryplate collodion and silver gelatin dryplate. Here is one of my gelatin dryplates. I coated the plate. Sadly I have not gone into emulsion making yet and used commercial emulsion

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-243417-1.html

There is a vast number of alternative and historic photographic processes beyond film and silver gelatin printing

PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago

Most Vintage cameras like Deardorff's and Old Kodak View cameras use film. They are not digital.

Darkroom317 Loc: Mishawaka, IN

If they have a graflok/ international back one could use a digital back. Medium format backs are readily available but are rather expensive. Large format digital backs while available are extremely expensive and very slow. Scanning backs such as these take several minutes to an hour to record an image if I recall correctly.