Just the thing for older folks who, as everyone knows, just can’t get the hang of these new fangled computer machine contraptions.
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I used to get the strangest looks from the clerk at the store whenever I picked up the photos I’d taken of the 21 year old twins “performing”.
Digital photography has eliminated those somewhat embarrassing interactions.
Gotta love those conservative shopping networks.
OvenMaster – if you aren’t quite in the Leica pay bracket – Olympus EP-1 ( and it’s sister cameras) are rather nice and definitely in the classic Leica / Olympus pen style
I like film.
I like the way that it makes you aware that you have a limited number of frames in a roll, so you think more about the photo.
I like the excitement (and disappointment) of getting your photos back and viewing them or the first time a few days later, instead of right away as a fleeting moment.
I like boxes of old photos that you find and can look through.
I like the way that photos really exists, instead of some digital representation that just goes away with a disk crash.
I like the way that you can’t “chimp” over and over trying to take the perfect picture.
I like the click of a real shutter.
I like being able to buy a decent camera with excellent resolution for $100 instead of $1000, and that it isn’t “outdated” in six months.
I like putting and removing pictures in albums, instead of trying to publish a ‘book’ every time I want to do a collection.
I like $5 disposable cameras at weddings, full of surprises.
I like a shutter that actually fires when I press the shutter rather than 3 seconds later.
I like film.
(and I have $7,000 worth of digital bodies)
aah I loathe the Brownie Camera. I think I will start using it soon, and put the mark D1 on the shelf
I’m quite happy with my Rebel XTi. I’ve had some very big enlargements made, and while my grandfather’s sunsets still beat them, I’m sure I paid much less for the prints than he did.
And now that I’ve put together a gigapixel rig using Papywizard and a modified Orion motorized telescope mount, I can take pictures like this: http://gigapan.org/gigapans/52877/
I’ve gone back to film.
I worked for years perfecting my photography and then I got a digital camera and my shooting became as sloppy as my handwriting. (which used to be good before computers!)
I even bought a Holga which shoot 120 film.
I’m loving it.
OK, we’ve got this frickin’ warehouse full of cheap 35mm film cameras. How can we unload them?
Similarly, I have left my Kindle sitting on my dresser for the past four months. I prefer real books. They are simply better in every way.
I prefer film, but don’t prefer the cost of film. That said, I use Canon SLRs now, and have invested heavily in L Series lenses for the digital bodies, which keep improving.
In the old days, a better film worked with your body and lenses, now I have to figure on a new $2500.00 body every four years or so, to keep up with the competition. (pro photographer).
I really really miss the darkroom.
Lightroom does not BEGIN to feel like the pleasures available under red light.
#16 They most likely wanted it as an example of how thing were in days of yore in much the same spirit as they might take a gramophone or an old tube radio.
I remember seeing a CD player at a high end stereo store that had TUBES! Do they still make Macintosh hi fi tube gear?
I imagine they still make guitar amps with 6L6 Russian tubes, right?
And 35mm film is stil sold at every Walgreens store, so SOMEBODY likes it. Who cares if an older person finds it simpler? It IS simpler.
Digital cameras are not complicated at all. Nor is the process of transferring files from your camera to a PC, or taking your SD card to Walmart to print pictures. But I do have 60ish relatives who have no effing clue about how to do this, no matter how many times it has been explained. Many older people (not all, but many) have SIMPLY CANNOT GRASP THE SIMPLICITY OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY. Best to give up on them and move on.
Tell me that isn’t JCD at 00:32!
minolta 9000 camera.. with lens.
Make a bid
Got a Minolta SRT 101, but haven’t used it in about 5 years. It’s a nice camera, but the cost of film retired it.
I also have a Canon A series digital camera, which works OK but is really too small for my hands. Why can’t the camera makers make larger cameras designed for adult hands?
#31.. Good guitar amps use tubes or they are hybrid amps which use tubes in the preamp. The whole deal is that you don’t want the sound to be perfect and sterile you want the warmth that comes from the tube distortion.
I can’t see that advantage with film ,but I can see how people can miss the creative dark room days.
I worked at Target from 2000-2004, and did cameras while working in Electronics. These cameras are quite literally the ones sold in clamshell packaging barely a step above disposables.
I was basically there for the period when 35mm film was still viable, Polaroids were still selling well, APS/Advantix was attempting to simplify it for point and shoots, and digitals were at the point of being decent.
If anyone buys a basic Kodak digital now, which aren’t even great cameras, they are extremely easy to use. Load software, set camera in dock, get pictures. Just like 6-8 years ago.
On my own gear, I’ve had a Canon S2 IS for 4 years+ now that I loved, except for certain issues with autofocus targeting and being badly prone to shake blur on distance shots. I bought a Rebel T2i (550D for you European types) and it’s been beautiful.
#35: They do. The SX/G lines are bigger and take great shots. The A series is the cheap pocket point/shoot line.
#8, #23, thank you both. Most definitely food for thought!
That Olympus looks real nice.
Just when you thought Fuji was done, this happens.
#39: Everything old is new again…