Art Grandpa Loc: Washougal, WA

I feel like I'm reading the rantings of a semi-literate schizophrenic.

rhitmrb Loc: Portland, OR

So just what exactly does this mean, then?



Sure sounds like race-baiting to me.

Bram boy Loc: Vancouver Island B.C. Canada

i have no idea what race baiting is or means, all im doing is trying to explane . to some one about this idea i have for a shore a
FILM WITH 35 MILL. FILM THE END

Art Grandpa Loc: Washougal, WA

If we euthanized all posters from Vancouver Island without the mental capacity to post coherently, we'd have a better thread. Just my "popular" opinion.

Bram boy Loc: Vancouver Island B.C. Canada

now your getting close, see how i can rattle you and . you could
be a thousand" miles away for all i know. all with a few strokes of a finger: then push send button. and i can cause a reaction. from flesh and blood. miles from where i am, now that is a mirrecle

ArgusSnap1 Loc: Indiana

Bram Boy---you are way off the topic. You are not talking about film photography which was the main subject of this discusion. You are not talking about digital photography either any more. Please take your rantings to another site!

ArgusSnap1 Loc: Indiana

Bram Boy---you are way off the topic. You are not talking about film photography which was the main subject of this discusion. You are not talking about digital photography either any more. Please take your rantings to another site!

Bram boy Loc: Vancouver Island B.C. Canada

can I help it if they wander off subject . I just answer . I never get up tight about subject . just listen to your self . don't forget' you are but a mere speck of star dust no more more no less . go out side tonight and have a long look at the stars . and yell " I can't take it any more " ane the answer that comes back will be as irrelevant as as this site . meaning you will hear no answer . you are nothing, we are nothing . I take that back we are the biggest polluters in our galexey bar none. we are so and small and insignificant . yet we can cause oil spilled , acid rain pollute oceans lakes . poison the water . Eren Brokovitch. start wars . drop bombs . land fills that people live on to try an eak out a living . cutting down the rain forest the side of manhattan island every day . give your head a shake , look what're happened since the 1950, a mere 60 years ago . well flash flash . its to late now were past the turning ,
point but it doesent matter we wil all be gone . but what about the kid's . and there kid's . all we can hope is they don't suffer. there isent enough enough food to feed every one now . can you imagin when it hits home . $100 for a quart of drinklable water will be cheap , food what is that ?

Bram boy Loc: Vancouver Island B.C. Canada

oh and one more thing . it's all unfolding as it was ment to our feeble brains think we can fix it or control it , well if that happens that's the way it was supposed to be . if we were only supposed to have a short history like the dinnasour. that's what we will get . actually the dinos will have had a lot longer stay than we could ever hope to . I'll have to look it up but Dino has got use beat a few million years already .

Bram boy Loc: Vancouver Island B.C. Canada

oh now I see what you think when I was writing that I wrote the second part not even correlatting the first part . if I was to keep going I would have wrote
clean up crime rate by handing out jail terms . not a slap on the wrist . if you want to stop drunk driving , life in jail if you kill some one or hang , drunk driving an kill no one lose licence for life , speeding over the limit by 10mi per hr, $1000 fine . how many of those would you get before you slowed down by saying no to any one of these means your are condoning it . people would learn . but it's a given that the law makers and thoes in power know all this , they want the drunks on the road . they want people to die . as long it's not there kid's or kin folk .. and when it gets two many people here simply have a war . you have now idea of what goes on behind closed doors .

GeorgeH Loc: Jonesboro, GA

I have BW negatives my father shot in the 30's and Kodachrome slides he shot in the '50s. All in good condition. My negatives, both BW and color, and slides I shot from the 60' on are still in good condition and printable/viewable. How many burnable CDs or DVDs or hard drives or data tapes, etc will be usable in 50 or 60 or more years? Ever try to find something to read a 8" floppy disc? Or even a 5 1/4" floppy? Good luck!

Film has the potential for a much longer life stored cool and dry than does digital stuff, unless it is refreshed periodically. Film needs no refreshing, and can always be read by anyone with a pair of eyes.

GeorgeH Loc: Jonesboro, GA

What is the story with this forum? As you can tell I'm new on the scene, but the comments by Bramboy or whoever he is on this thread bother me. No one is asking him to shoot film. I shoot both film and digital. I don't rag on digital folks unless they jump me. If Bramboy doesn't want to shoot film so be it! but why clog up what had been a nice, friendly thread. Please tell me that this sort of hijacking behavior is rare??

And in the "Chat Room": OMG, if politics or religion come up its wall to wall flamers! What ever happened to civil discussion, polite disagreements? Several "contributors" to that area don't seem able to post much without making personal attacks of the sort which, in person, might earn them a poke in the nose. One offender has started over a hundred threads, only one of which is directly related to photography. PentaxForums finally abolished the Politics and Religion section of their forum because of the ad hominem attacks verging on slander, and another forum REQUIRES that users post under their real name to avoid such nastiness.

GeorgeH Loc: Jonesboro, GA

Sorry about the rant! Back to the topic.

I've enjoyed Kentmere 100 and 400 in 35mm, and also Ilford in 35mm and Foma makes some nice BW in 120. I have 100 feet of Tri-X, T Max 100 and Provia in my freezer, along with a lot of 35mm C 41 film that Porter's sold before their sad demise. Freestyle in California has been my mainstay in buying film, since local sources have virtually dried up. So far I've been souping the BW and sending color out; I plan to fire up the Besler 23 and do some BW printing. Thus far I've scanned negatives and had the files printed locally, Costco has done good work.

I may do E 6, I did Ektachrome in the past. It's just such a PITA to maintain the temperatures. Same story for C 41.

ChrisCat Loc: Lawn Guyland, New Yawk

Me too!!!

NMR Loc: Edmonton, Canada

I prefer to shoot slide film - Velvia 50 / 100. I also have a stock pile of the new discontinued Provia 400. (That's horribly sad to me they discontinued it.)

I don't care much for shooting color negatives.

For B&Ws, Kodak T-max and Ilford (Delta, FP4, PanF, HP5) give me a lot of great 'flavors'.