Shooting with an SLR...
Aug 20, 2022 20:23:01 #
DaveyDitzer
Loc: Western PA
What about you hogs. Do you ever return to the SLR world?[/quote]
I return to the SLR world to shoot some B/W which prints I know will stand the test of time and need no updated software to handle and view.
I return to the SLR world to shoot some B/W which prints I know will stand the test of time and need no updated software to handle and view.
Aug 20, 2022 20:30:18 #
DaveyDitzer wrote:
What about you hogs. Do you ever return to the SLR world?
I return to the SLR world to shoot some B/W which prints I know will stand the test of time and need no updated software to handle and view.[/quote]
Good plan. When your heirs throw them out, theyll be good as new, unlike digital prints whose code can be corrupted by solar flares or nuclear holocaust.
Aug 20, 2022 20:35:54 #
Aug 20, 2022 20:41:30 #
BebuLamar wrote:
These days I shoot only slide films (I no longer h... (show quote)
I have an Ektagraphic III AT projector, with Apollo zoom lens on it, that I haven't used in 30 years.
Yes slides were like JPEGs. You had to set up the camera for the end result.
I have been copying all my old slides and negatives to digital files so I can print and share them. I use my Lumix GH4 with 30mm macro lens.
Here are a few:
Tri-X negative processed in Negative Lab Pro Plug-in for Lightroom Classic
(Download)
Kodachrome 64 of Tiki Hut at Disney
(Download)
Kodachrome 64 slide from 1983 of Spaceship Earth at Disney's EPCOT
(Download)
Aug 20, 2022 23:40:26 #
Aug 21, 2022 10:50:14 #
jack schade wrote:
I went back to experience film again a few years ago. Had pretty much the same experience you did. Never again.
Jack
Jack
I went digital in 2005, never went back to film and never even had the last roll developed.
Aug 21, 2022 11:26:02 #
First up I never left the SLR world. Saturday was at a flea market that have 50+ dealers. The camera I use was a Pentax ME Super with 50mm Pentax 1:2 lens with a Tamron-F tele-converter 2X. Film was 400 speed film. Have no problem in getting the pictures I wanted with people walking all rounded me. So what is the beef?
Aug 21, 2022 14:20:01 #
BebuLamar wrote:
These days I shoot only slide films (I no longer h... (show quote)
My Nikon F6 is loaded (usually) with Ektachrome 100 and I have (still) many empty and available Carousel trays. For B&W I use my Nikon FE which is lighter. The F6 is Nikon’s flagship film SLR, has a similar workflow to my DSLR (soon to be sold D7100) and the heft of its legendary parent, the original Nikon F Photomic FTN (which I NEVER should have sold). The D7100 is being sold along with about half a dozen DX lenses because in my digital world I haven’t looked back since buying (on a GAS attack) a Z6. The 7100 has lived on the shelf ever since. The handful of FX lenses I had bought for it have been repurposed to the F6 or to the Z6 with FTZ adapter.
Aug 21, 2022 14:46:29 #
I never left the SLR world or the medium format world. I enjoy both format's, digital and film, lean more toward film but enjoy it all.
Aug 21, 2022 15:13:15 #
delder
Loc: Maryland
burkphoto:
You hit the nail on the head with sharing digital vs slides especially!
How many people I can share a jpg with today compared to a slide IN the tray.
You hit the nail on the head with sharing digital vs slides especially!
How many people I can share a jpg with today compared to a slide IN the tray.
Aug 21, 2022 15:20:00 #
rmalarz wrote:
JD750, I see the photograph and get the gratification before I even touch the shutter release.
--Bob
--Bob
I like that!
Aug 21, 2022 16:17:05 #
I've gone completely digital and will continue on that path. Mistakes are easier to correct or just delete and it doesn't cost anything for film and developing. Best of luck with the film SLR.
Chris
Chris
Aug 21, 2022 17:18:17 #
delder wrote:
burkphoto:
You hit the nail on the head with sharing digital vs slides especially!
How many people I can share a jpg with today compared to a slide IN the tray.
You hit the nail on the head with sharing digital vs slides especially!
How many people I can share a jpg with today compared to a slide IN the tray.
That's why bits beat atoms! The virtual world can view digital media at will. Only the producer can show a slide show (or at least, it can be in only as many places as you made expensive duplicates for it).
Slides are great, but dragging out the projector and screen instead of using a phone, tablet, computer, or smartTV seems a bit inconvenient. Of course, I may be shell shocked by years of professional multi-image AV show production (3- to 15-projector shows were my specialty). It was fun in my 20s... the 1980s.
Aug 21, 2022 18:36:50 #
Guyserman wrote:
is a real drag. I picked up a cheap Kalimar K-90 i... (show quote)
I have a Nikon F2 Photomic that I love to use. My Nikon Photomic Ftn needs a bit of repair.
Aug 21, 2022 18:43:33 #
No, maybe if I still owned my photolab.
When Nikon came out with the D3, that’s when I switched to the dark side.
J shoot too many “experimental” photos to spend on developing and printing them just to toss.
But film is coming back I hear.
When Nikon came out with the D3, that’s when I switched to the dark side.
J shoot too many “experimental” photos to spend on developing and printing them just to toss.
But film is coming back I hear.
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