I was surprised Nikon still makes 2 film cameras, they are low end models.
My wife is a member of the Lynn Photographic Society (which claims to be the oldest photography club inthe country). Several members still have and use film cameras.
Not far from our house is Hunt Photo in Melrose, where you can still buy film and photographic chemicals.
But, it’s true, much more of the photography at the Lynn Photo club is done on electronic cameras, and most of the accouterments at Hunts are for electronic cameras.
I still have a 35mm camera. My dad got it about the time i was born; I think it was one of the very early examples of that format. I still use it on occasion. The last time I bought film for it was at Hunt Photo in Melrose, in fact.
Does a Polaroid camera count? I have an old land camera and I got the lil’wrekker one of the new cutie-pie ones that make small pix. She played with it about a week.
But I’ve had fun with the Grandwrex using them.
The photography club at the local high school still does some stuff with film. They bill it for being in case of zombie apocalypse, but I think the real reason just comes down to one of the art teachers liking retro stuff.
My niece recently took a class that required her to use a manual film camera. I gave her my 1970s-era Canon AE1 to use for the class.
I still have a roll of Ektachrome sitting on my desk. One of these days I’m going to run it through one of my film cameras and see what develops. It expired in 1997 so I’m hoping for some interesting effects.
I think Johnny L.A. has a bunch of them.
I gave away my last film body about 5 years ago to a young’un who expressed great desire to learn and shoot film. I had no emotional attachment to it at all. It was a Nikon 20/20. A meh film body. At one time I owned 3 of them.
Still and always a Nikon guy, if I were to return to film now I’d buy a Nikon F or a Nikkormat body. I do miss darkroom work. It was and always will be an intoxicatingly soothing environment.
Last time I printed was around…hmm…2005? At PrintSpace in the photo district of NYC. Loved every rented minute !!
Meanwhile sitting next to me are the Leica my Dad shot when he was a news photographer as well as the Yashica 635 medium format Twin Lens Reflex he gave to me. ( My first camera ). As well as the Zeiss Ikon “Baby Camera” used by my Grandmother to shoot pix of Dad and his baby sister on the boat as they fled the Nazis in 1938.
Yeah. I love film.
A whole variety of them including a 4x5 Speed Graphic (with a 6x9 120 rollfilm back.) I started photography in high school (2000-2004) when film had not yet been supplanted by digital on a large scale. I do the developing myself - both black and white and color (C41) - but scan the negatives as I do not have the desire to set up a darkroom.
Film still has a strong following. The Medium & Large Format Film group on Facebook has a massive flow of posts every single day from all over the world.
A whole variety of them including a 4x5 Speed Graphic (with a 6x9 120 rollfilm back.) I started photography in high school (2000-2004) when film had not yet been supplanted by digital on a large scale. I do the developing myself - both black and white and color (C41) - but scan the negatives as I do not have the desire to set up a darkroom.
Film still has a strong following. The Medium & Large Format Film group on Facebook has a massive flow of posts every single day from all over the world.
I have a couple of inherited cameras that I used quite a bit back in the Dark Ages of film - a Kodak Signet 35mm and a Nikon F. I wish I still had my father’s old twin lens reflex camera; you held it against your chest and looked down into the viewfinder to compose the shot.
Maybe at some point I’ll feel nostalgic enough to buy a couple rolls of film and take some photos for the hell of it. That is, if I can overcome the memories of sending off a 36-exposure roll for developing, and getting back maybe 20 decent photos with a half-dozen that I really liked.
I only use one for solar eclipse photography, because I have special lenses for it that don’t fit my digital.
I was trying to shoot some star trails and I thought it would be much easier with a film camera and a cable release.
For digital, the advice at the time was to hook up an intervalometer and shoot multiple time lapse pics, then put together as a multiple exposure while pulling out the noise. I wasn’t very good at post processing so I didn’t get great results.
That said, back in the day I calculated that each color photo cost me about 25 cents (figure roll of film D & P, tax, postage). Over time, it added up.
I’ve heard of a teacher who figures digital doesn’t work well for students because they just clickclickclick and hope to fix it in Photoshop etc. By limiting the number of exposures, and forcing them to D&P, they become a lot more disciplined and careful and considerate of composition etc. (goes the theory).