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OldFilmGuy

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Hi Folks,
Nice to find a friendly community!
I have been involved with photography since the 70s (yeah, I know, that's the "Old" in the Old Film Guy username!). Coming back to film after many years away, but also work with DSLRs. Couldn't afford Nikon as a young lad, now retired (and still relatively poor ;)), it's great to be able to find old cameras I could only dream about in my teens for very reasonable prices. And being Nikons, they still work! Heh Heh!
Cheers, one and all, and I look forward to seeing your work!
 
Clovishound

Clovishound

Senior Member
Welcome. I fondly remember spending time as a child with my Dad out in the darkroom watching him develop and print B&W film. I went on to have an interest in photography. I would love to be able to spend an afternoon with my dad showing him the wonders of the latest digital cameras. He was a tech guy, so would have be awestruck.
 
Blue439

Blue439

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I have memories very much like yours, being, I suspect, in a similar age bracket... My first reflex camera was a Canon FT/QL I received for Christmas in the early 1970s. It wasn't what I wanted, but as you said, Nikons were tremendously expensive back then. Anyway, I started saving like mad on my pocket money, and by the next Summer, I was able to re-sell the (rarely used) Canon and acquire a gorgeous secondhand Nikon F Photomic FTn with a Nikkor 50mm ƒ/2 lens. That camera served me well for many years, until I acquired an FA in 1984 (I was in my last year of studies in California the year of the Olympics). I still own both bodies, they're in perfect working order!

In fact, I can hardly resist the temptation to post a photo of those old cameras with the lenses they came with. The one in the middle is a 17-55mm ƒ/2.8 from my D200 days around 2006.

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So, like you, I am an “old film guy”. I have fond memories of the hours spent developing and enlarging in the small photo lab our professor of chemistry had set up for us in my high school. However, and much as I would like to re-use those old beasts (I also have an F2 that comes from my father, and an F4 I bought one day in Venice because it was cheap and it is the most beautiful camera that ever was), I was never really tempted to go back. I enjoy too much the amount of control I now have in the “computerized photo lab”, and the power of the tools at our disposal.

Sorry for (briefly) hijacking your thread and welcome! I look forward to looking at your work.
 
blackstar

blackstar

Senior Member
Welcome from a well-advanced aging guy who just started the digital photo hobby not long ago, yet still has great memories of film days!
 
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