PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Yep, I remember.

Don

aellman Loc: Boston MA

Been there, done that (in spades)!

Jackjchow Loc: St Augustine, FL

I went to slides because I was young & couldn’t afford color prints. Had to wait then set time to use projector to see they sucked.
Most 35mm slr’s didn’t have capability to switch rolls so you were stuck with whatever ISO/ASA for 24-36 pictures. That sucked too.

Nieber

In Germany in the 70’s, the Army would send the film back to the US to get developed. Sometimes we’d wait a month.

SangerM

It did take a long time, but I assumed the actual processing took place in the FRG because the words on the 'diapostiv' frames were in German (see below).

I've still got more than a thousand of these left. Planning to clean and rescan most of them sometime this year.

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Wallen Loc: Middle Earth

how can i forget? those are the best times LOL

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

I had learned the hard way to be a photographer. Yep, properly loading and unloading a roll was hard for the first few times. I can't tell you how many times I ripped up the sprocket holes.
The store that I bought most of my film was a mom and pop shop. When they got on in years, they handed the store to their daughter and her husband. I ended up buying a EOS Rebel 2000 for a great steal. Then everyone and their aunts and uncles were buy digital cameras.

I never could understand the concept of one hour processing, though.

sgt hop Loc: baltimore md,now in salisbury md

i found it out right away when i developed them......

EdR Loc: Gig Harbor, WA

I just looked at some of my Germany slides. They were processed in the US, maybe because they were Kodachrome rather than Ektachrome?

crushr13 Loc: Sacramento, CA

I used to shoot film, but had to wait until I had money to develop the film. Or had to wait until the film was developed to find out the photos were bad or just no good. So I stopped shooting with film. Once I got a digital camera, all of that changed, and I am back into photography, and really trying to learn all over again.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Attic is probably not a good place to store slides - heat will cause them to "age" so much faster.

Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA

That's why I gave up photography in the 1980's. Shot too many 24 and 36 pic rolls of Kodachrome, just to get one or two keepers. Had better luck with 8mm movie film on 3 minute 50ft. reels. Started photography again when I got a Sony mini DV casette camcorder in 2000, and a 4MP Sony DCS-S85 camera with an equivalent focal length of 34mm-102mm, back in 2001. Then I could take a ton of pictures and video at no cost. Also could crop the still pics on the computer and get prints made by uploading the pics online and getting the prints in the mail.

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

Yeah, me too also.
I started getting rid of folders when I got my first Nikon SLR. Still have 2 EMs.
Still loved the MFs- still have a few Russians. Then I got that Canon 6mp.
Ren Faire wedding, then a raucous reception in a park. @ 600 photos just for the wedding and Faire. No film, no backpack, no tripod, just walk around and shoot. A couple batteries and a memory card in a pocket.
That was it. Digital all the way. No waiting/ anticipating for "That Shot" really, anymore. That time in between when you're winding another frame and re composing could cost you. Shoot 5 shots with a DSLR when it seems right- and 1 is.
I took my Zenit (humorously appropriate, I thought) to a family 4July picnic, and just got the film back. @ $250 later I find that another customer didn't think to tell the clerk it was old slide film, the kid behind the counter didn't think to check, and nobody thought to tell me before I got home that half my negs AND 4x6s are dark green.
For $250 I could buy yet another 5 year old DSLR. Or a lens. But I'll never get those shots back.
I could have taken the D7100 or A900, maybe $.25 worth of electricity, and been golden.
So, I'll be getting rid of most if not all my film cams soon. Gotta pare down anyway.

SangerM

Pretty much same here. I never stopped taking photos, I just started using cheap one-off cameras and taking snaps of only things I specifically wanted. Otherwise, I'd buy ready-made slide sets at the tourist traps, and by the mid '90s I'd stopped doing even that. About then, I started buying kodak or other brand point and shoot digitals. They took pretty lame pics, but I was done w/ film and getting snaps good enough for reliving the trip or the event.

It wasn't until '10 or '11, I think, when a friend sold me his cast-off DLSR that my interest in photography returned and it did that with a vengeance. I take the cameras with me pretty much everywhere now and I take photos of everything that catches my eye. A lot of that gets deleted, but quite a bit makes great stock stuff. As for the smaller cameras, my spouse stopped using them 4-5 years ago and does everything with the phone, including making videos for teaching (we have a nifty bluetooth clicker that lets you work an iPhone on a tripod remotely).

Lastly, it doesn't matter, but I checked my slides and found that some Kodachrome slides did come back in English frames, but most from '76-'79 & '82-'85 came back in German frames. I also discovered I still have slides from the first pictures I ever took in 1972 or 3, using a Kodak Instamatic 126. I scanned these in 2001 w/ a NIKON scanner, this was pretty good quality back then. This is why I plan to rescan everything. . . .

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awis01

Not too young and been there, done that.