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Sep 27, 2021 08:18:27   #
rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona
 
I have no problem finding film in formats similar to the cameras you mentioned.
--Bob
expilot37 wrote:
I agree, would still be using my Rollicord, Speedgrafic 4X5, and 2.25X3.25 Press cameras if I could find the roll and cut film. I enjoyed processing my own and printing it ( Dodging and burning prints) and got better results than digital.

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Sep 27, 2021 08:23:36   #
GLSmith Loc: Tampa, Fl
 
Have you considered teaching to a group of BoyScouts, budding photographers, or through a local photo store....It is definitely becoming a lost art

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Sep 27, 2021 08:32:40   #
ronpier Loc: Poland Ohio
 
obeone wrote:
I've owned just about every Canon digital camera ever made, but just never found any real pleasure in using them. It's not that they weren't great cameras. It was with each one I found less satisfaction in photography.
It was no longer me creating the image, but the camera doing all the work.
I've gone back to film. The not having instant gratification of knowing if I got the shot and having to wait till I processed the film and made a print has brought back the fun I had when I first started in photography sixty years ago with a Kodak Brown and Kodak Tri-chem packs processed in an old coal bin and printed in a print frame has returned, but now I have a dark room and enlarger that I've brought out of storage.
Photography is fun again. I guess it's a sign of senility - but who cares.
I've owned just about every Canon digital camera e... (show quote)


Whatever works for you is good for you. Best wishes.

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Sep 27, 2021 08:33:18   #
awenderoff
 
the beauty of getting older (I'm pushing 70) is truly not caring

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Sep 27, 2021 08:47:52   #
AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!
 
So glad you're finding your mojo again! I totally agree with you that film can be more fun. But then, I like both.

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Sep 27, 2021 08:49:07   #
expilot37 Loc: Oak Ridge, TN
 
Don't have my home lab anymore. Do you know of a place where I can get the cut film and development done? Also, developing infrared film?

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Sep 27, 2021 08:54:31   #
alexol
 
There's a lot to be said for the relative simplicity and somehow more involving experience of cameras like the Fuji XPro3 & X100 series.

Quite a different image creating process, but very definitely not for everyone.

Unless photography is how you make your living, then it has to be about enjoyment of your hobby. If you are not enjoying the use of your camera, why bother?

Recently sold my D850 for that reason. Wonderful camera in every possible way, but I just didn't enjoy using it.

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Sep 27, 2021 08:56:21   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
If you don't love your camera, who will love your photography?

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Sep 27, 2021 08:58:29   #
talborough Loc: Bellingham, MA, USA
 
obeone wrote:
I've owned just about every Canon digital camera ever made, but just never found any real pleasure in using them. It's not that they weren't great cameras. It was with each one I found less satisfaction in photography.
It was no longer me creating the image, but the camera doing all the work.
I've gone back to film. The not having instant gratification of knowing if I got the shot and having to wait till I processed the film and made a print has brought back the fun I had when I first started in photography sixty years ago with a Kodak Brown and Kodak Tri-chem packs processed in an old coal bin and printed in a print frame has returned, but now I have a dark room and enlarger that I've brought out of storage.
Photography is fun again. I guess it's a sign of senility - but who cares.
I've owned just about every Canon digital camera e... (show quote)


Sounds sane to me.

Do please consider a good quality scanner so we can see some of your work here!

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Sep 27, 2021 08:58:49   #
Retina Loc: Near Charleston,SC
 
obeone wrote:
I've owned just about every Canon digital camera ever made, but just never found any real pleasure in using them. It's not that they weren't great cameras. It was with each one I found less satisfaction in photography.
It was no longer me creating the image, but the camera doing all the work.
I've gone back to film. The not having instant gratification of knowing if I got the shot and having to wait till I processed the film and made a print has brought back the fun I had when I first started in photography sixty years ago with a Kodak Brown and Kodak Tri-chem packs processed in an old coal bin and printed in a print frame has returned, but now I have a dark room and enlarger that I've brought out of storage.
Photography is fun again. I guess it's a sign of senility - but who cares.
I've owned just about every Canon digital camera e... (show quote)

You made good on something I intend to do before I am too old to see. Other than for fun and the odor of fixer, another reason is to involve any of my grandchildren that are interested before it's too late for them or me.

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Sep 27, 2021 09:35:54   #
joehel2 Loc: Cherry Hill, NJ
 
It sounds like you miss developing film. In the end, photography is about the image that is created. How you got there, doesn’t effect the beauty or worth of the image.

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Sep 27, 2021 09:42:52   #
gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast
 
In the days of film and before slides, there was only one outcome - the print. Now in the days of digital there are two outcomes - the print and the image on a screen. I think that the image on the screen is the outcome for the majority of armature photographers. It’s quick and easy. Lots of folks are just camera users.

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Sep 27, 2021 09:58:23   #
Retina Loc: Near Charleston,SC
 
joehel2 wrote:
It sounds like you miss developing film. In the end, photography is about the image that is created. How you got there, doesn’t effect the beauty or worth of the image.

The final image is just one aspect of photography. Other aspects include entrepreneurship, technical work, reporting, documenting, travel memories, a fondness for optics, even political aims. True, if not for the final print (in any form) photography would not exist, but the process offers many spinoffs for those not selling or sharing their photos for others to admire. Some people just enjoy the process.

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Sep 27, 2021 10:00:18   #
jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ
 
obeone wrote:
I've owned just about every Canon digital camera ever made, but just never found any real pleasure in using them. It's not that they weren't great cameras. It was with each one I found less satisfaction in photography.
It was no longer me creating the image, but the camera doing all the work.
I've gone back to film. The not having instant gratification of knowing if I got the shot and having to wait till I processed the film and made a print has brought back the fun I had when I first started in photography sixty years ago with a Kodak Brown and Kodak Tri-chem packs processed in an old coal bin and printed in a print frame has returned, but now I have a dark room and enlarger that I've brought out of storage.
Photography is fun again. I guess it's a sign of senility - but who cares.
I've owned just about every Canon digital camera e... (show quote)


To each his own. I did buy a used Canon SLR about 2 years ago and started taking some pictures on film. I would take it with me on landscape shoots and put it on a tripod next to my other camera just so that I could get both instant and delays gratification. Best of both worlds.

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Sep 27, 2021 10:02:09   #
dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida
 
Another step away from photography personal expertise involvement is my Panasonic TZ100 which will take a video and I can grab an 8mb photo from the hundreds of single images. So, with that great trick, how much of a photographer do I have to be to just scan the area, and chose one of the many that looks well constructed.

Focus... well, there is a setting on my the TZ100 that takes photos at where it decides I may want a different focus spot ... called "Post Focus."
"How to use Post Focus function at Panasonic Lumix TZ100 (ZS100) and TZ200 (ZS200) camera? It takes a short 3-seconds 4K video clip when continuously changing the focus. "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faR0sHqOf3A

I can screw up on construction, and focus and the camera saves the day!!! If the lighting is not right there is post-processing "auto-correction."

Give up Obeone, your camera does not need you at all, the drone will fly it to a good location while you are asleep in the recliner. All you have to do is say Fall Flowers and off it goes... internal programs will do processing and the best JPEG will be selected and give to you effortlessly.

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