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<blockquote data-quote="Wolfeye" data-source="post: 478599" data-attributes="member: 29166"><p>My father died when I was but five, and one of the things he left behind were Kodachrome (and lesser, crappier) slides. At about 8 years old I started to look at the slides, wonder about them and the people and places, and gradually became interested in photography myself. I took the photography class in high school and learned to develop and print B&W film around 1978. To me, the early 1980's are the golden age of 35mm cameras. I spent many many hours looking at the glass-cased beauties at K-mart, or sometimes down at Linn Photo, our real camera store downtown. I occasionally picked up a copy of Modern Photography and drooled over the Canon A-1, Nikon's F3 and EM, and Minolta's X-700. I had no money for any of them, so drooling was the closest I got. When I joined the Navy I had the income, and bought a 35mm SLR and had fun with it. I didn't photograph avidly because film and developing were costly enough to restrict it to once in a while.</p><p></p><p>Around the year 2000 it occurred to me that these digital cameras were getting pretty good. I got one. It was crap, but hey, it was digital. I did get better and better digital cameras and eventually the film SLR sat pretty much unused. I was headed down the path of "going all digital" because I didn't want film's expense again. I didn't stop to think that I might want to keep shooting film... but I discovered a web site (APUG.org) devoted to traditional film photography and I also realized people were dumping their little-used film cameras for next to nothing. Soon I was acquiring great gear; all those lusted-for cameras from the early 80's were going for a song. Film was still around, still being sold, and still is, to this day. I love, love, LOVE shooting film, right along with my digital gear. I don't need to justify it or wonder if I should, I just do it. If you want to get back into film, it's there, and it's still good. For me it's part nostalgia and part fun and part secret glee at having all the cameras I could never afford back in the day. If none of those apply, in your situation, then I'd say don't bother, but, and it's an important but, if you enjoyed shooting film and getting prints and looking at them, the old joy will come back with your first roll.</p><p></p><p>You see, there's no mandate for anyone to shoot film, there's no rationale; you only need the desire to do it because you enjoy(ed) it.</p><p></p><p>Case in point, here's a shot from yesterday's outing with the F6 and an expired roll of Kodak Gold 200, home-developed and scanned.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]171675[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wolfeye, post: 478599, member: 29166"] My father died when I was but five, and one of the things he left behind were Kodachrome (and lesser, crappier) slides. At about 8 years old I started to look at the slides, wonder about them and the people and places, and gradually became interested in photography myself. I took the photography class in high school and learned to develop and print B&W film around 1978. To me, the early 1980's are the golden age of 35mm cameras. I spent many many hours looking at the glass-cased beauties at K-mart, or sometimes down at Linn Photo, our real camera store downtown. I occasionally picked up a copy of Modern Photography and drooled over the Canon A-1, Nikon's F3 and EM, and Minolta's X-700. I had no money for any of them, so drooling was the closest I got. When I joined the Navy I had the income, and bought a 35mm SLR and had fun with it. I didn't photograph avidly because film and developing were costly enough to restrict it to once in a while. Around the year 2000 it occurred to me that these digital cameras were getting pretty good. I got one. It was crap, but hey, it was digital. I did get better and better digital cameras and eventually the film SLR sat pretty much unused. I was headed down the path of "going all digital" because I didn't want film's expense again. I didn't stop to think that I might want to keep shooting film... but I discovered a web site (APUG.org) devoted to traditional film photography and I also realized people were dumping their little-used film cameras for next to nothing. Soon I was acquiring great gear; all those lusted-for cameras from the early 80's were going for a song. Film was still around, still being sold, and still is, to this day. I love, love, LOVE shooting film, right along with my digital gear. I don't need to justify it or wonder if I should, I just do it. If you want to get back into film, it's there, and it's still good. For me it's part nostalgia and part fun and part secret glee at having all the cameras I could never afford back in the day. If none of those apply, in your situation, then I'd say don't bother, but, and it's an important but, if you enjoyed shooting film and getting prints and looking at them, the old joy will come back with your first roll. You see, there's no mandate for anyone to shoot film, there's no rationale; you only need the desire to do it because you enjoy(ed) it. Case in point, here's a shot from yesterday's outing with the F6 and an expired roll of Kodak Gold 200, home-developed and scanned. [ATTACH=CONFIG]171675._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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