What do you say when someone laughs at you for using film?

[slashmaster]

What do you say when someone laughs at you or looks at you funny for using film? I think I came up with a way to take advantage of it. Someone like that already seems to be of the mentality that technology solves all problems. These people have abandond nice projectors and cameras for an hd camera, therefore helping make the projectors and cameras I want cheaper for me! This gave me an idea! I now tell these people to keep it up and get the Oculus Rift and some Oculus rift porn to replace women with technology! Therefore it makes the women I want that much cheaper and more available for me! Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WePffFY2KY

[nikonr10]

What do you say when someone laughs at you or looks at you funny for using film? I think I came up with a way to take advantage of it. Someone like that already seems to be of the mentality that technology solves all problems. These people have abandond nice projectors and cameras for an hd camera, therefore helping make the projectors and cameras I want cheaper for me! This gave me an idea! I now tell these people to keep it up and get the Oculus Rift and some Oculus rift porn to replace women with technology! Therefore it makes the women I want that much cheaper and more available for me! Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WePffFY2KY

Let them laugh ? Never made films or Photographs for them any way ? Besides film is the ink I write paint and draw with, play of shadow / Light ,
Let them have there digital moments as it will not be around in the next 5 , 10 to 20 year even sooner as it go,s into bit rot dig decay of hard drive rot etc ,
Or so its your own story not there ! And love them German babe cameras , lens from the 50 ,s and on mid century craftmens ship at it,s best made with love not like this stuff today thats heads into a land fill really fast , And there still work being now some over 70 years old/ Class never go's out `, more so it's your own History >

[slashmaster]

Let them laugh ? Never made films or Photographs for them any way ? Besides film is the ink I write paint and draw with, play of shadow / Light ,
Let them have there digital moments as it will not be around in the next 5 , 10 to 20 year even sooner as it go,s into bit rot dig decay of hard drive rot etc ,
Or so its your own story not there ! And love them German babe cameras , lens from the 50 ,s and on mid century craftmens ship at it,s best made with love not like this stuff today thats heads into a land fill really fast , And there still work being now some over 70 years old/ Class never go's out `, more so it's your own History >

Yeah I've been wondering just how fast bit rot will destroy digital pics. I've had things I've burned onto disc disappear after a few years. Then again I've also had the base of a super 8 that was only 7 years old crack up like a dried up mud puddle. Probably because I didn't have it in a proper metal can.

[Tscan]

Comedian Jim Gaffigan joked that instead of traditional family photo albums all of their family memories are on old desktop computers in a closet. "there's our wedding computer, there's the birth of our son computer". Which leads me to think that it won't be long before people will have to shell out big money to rescue or retrieve their digital photo archives.

No one has ever laughed at me for using film, but the reaction ranges to "wow cool" to very puzzled.

[Will2]

No one has ever laughed at me for using film, but the reaction ranges to "wow cool" to very puzzled.

This has been my experience. When I'm using my medium format Fuji rangefinder to shoot stills people are amazed. I love that I can actually see the image clearly on those large negatives or positives. Modern film should last an extremely long time if taken relatively good care of.

I'm getting ready to re-scan some 16mm from about 6 years ago that I couldn't afford HD on at that time...can't wait to see the improvement.

[slashmaster]

Comedian Jim Gaffigan joked that instead of traditional family photo albums all of their family memories are on old desktop computers in a closet. "there's our wedding computer, there's the birth of our son computer". Which leads me to think that it won't be long before people will have to shell out big money to rescue or retrieve their digital photo archives.

No one has ever laughed at me for using film, but the reaction ranges to "wow cool" to very puzzled.

Talk about clutter!

[slashmaster]

No one has ever laughed at me for using film, but the reaction ranges to "wow cool" to very puzzled.

This has been my experience. When I'm using my medium format Fuji rangefinder to shoot stills people are amazed. I love that I can actually see the image clearly on those large negatives or positives. Modern film should last an extremely long time if taken relatively good care of.

I'm getting ready to re-scan some 16mm from about 6 years ago that I couldn't afford HD on at that time...can't wait to see the improvement.

Are you getting your images consistent all across or soft in the corners?

[milesandjules]

Thats why its good to have the gh4 and a 5d on hand next to the 4008 that you are shooting with and say….. film is just more fun, haven't you ever shot it? 8O

[slashmaster]

Thats why its good to have the gh4 and a 5d on hand next to the 4008 that you are shooting with and say….. film is just more fun, haven't you ever shot it? 8O

Never did that combination but have run a video camera next to a super 8 before. I want to get a sound striper someday and try to get the sound from the video camera on the super 8.

[Angus]

Nobody has ever laughed, but I do get some strange ill-informed questions.

For example I was at my cousin's wedding just this Saturday. I took a DSLR and a Nikon F601M film SLR complete with computerised flash and some rolls of B&W film. The pro photographer, using one (albeit nice) Canon DSLR was NOT amused. She deliberately got in the way of my shots, lead the couple away for private photo shoots, and at any available opportunity tried to step into the frame if she saw me pointing either camera at something interesting.

However guests were more curious. Why had I brought two cameras? Someone referred to the 601M as "a bit special". People even asked if film was still available - and this is 35mm not some obscure format. You can still see 35mm film on the shelves of several mainstream stores in the UK. When they learned I was shooting B&W with the 601M they were really intrigued. Several people knew exactly why I was shooting B&W, saying "B&W never looks quite right with digital."


As for super 8, the last time I was "out and about" shooting was in 2012 at Monkey World (ape rescue centre). I got some strange looks with my Elmo Super 110, but people were also curious. Nobody asked but they were curious as to why I would use super 8. Many didn't even know what super 8 film was, and were at least intrigued. More than one "hipster" type thought I was uber cool, apparently. Older adults were surprised to learn that cine film is still available - and that I do understand as it hasn't been mainstream for about 30 years and disappeared from all high street shops in the early 2000s.

[Angus]

One of the things about family memories such as weddings, photos of kids, photos of people now gone.....is that film negs and slides will last a long time.

As an example, I was house-sitting for my mother while she was away in September. In a dusty drawer I found a 4x4cm slide which had not been looked after well. I gave it a quick clean with a cotton cloth, scanned it and made a print for her. Turns out it's at least 40 years old, and has probably been knocking around in that drawer all that time....totally unprotected with bits of scrap paper, pens, dice, all sorts of oddments in the drawer with it.

But it still yielded it's image, pretty much perfectly. That photo was of my late grandmother and one of her sisters taken in the mid 1970s. Both are long gone. How many people will be able to recover digital images of important memories in 10,20,30,40+ years time? How many people have already lost digital images from the last 5 years?

[marc]

You say, "I am just trying to enjoy it as much as possible while it is still around because its doom is quite imminent!"

[Will2]

Are you getting your images consistent all across or soft in the corners?

On the Fuji? I haven't noticed softness in the corners but often the corners are out of focus as the subject is usually in the center and what I'm focusing on...love the camera although it looks like a clown camera since it's so big.

Mine's a 6x7 not 6x9 but you can see the difference in size here...part of why I get strange looks with this particular film camera.



Sorry to get off topic.

[nikonr10]

Let them laugh ? Never made films or Photographs for them any way ? Besides film is the ink I write paint and draw with, play of shadow / Light ,
Let them have there digital moments as it will not be around in the next 5 , 10 to 20 year even sooner as it go,s into bit rot dig decay of hard drive rot etc ,
Or so its your own story not there ! And love them German babe cameras , lens from the 50 ,s and on mid century craftmens ship at it,s best made with love not like this stuff today thats heads into a land fill really fast , And there still work being now some over 70 years old/ Class never go's out `, more so it's your own History >

Yeah I've been wondering just how fast bit rot will destroy digital pics. I've had things I've burned onto disc disappear after a few years. Then again I've also had the base of a super 8 that was only 7 years old crack up like a dried up mud puddle. Probably because I didn't have it in a proper metal can.

You say, "I am just trying to enjoy it as much as possible while it is still around because its doom is quite imminent!"

Leica still has faith in 35mm film and have made a new Camera the MA which is based on the M3 and it's history ,
Never ever had that kind of problem with film be it 35mm or super 8 films that gone in to decay ? how did you store it ?

[slashmaster]

Leica still has faith in 35mm film and have made a new Camera the MA which is based on the M3 and it's history ,
Never ever had that kind of problem with film be it 35mm or super 8 films that gone in to decay ? how did you store it ?

Never had the dried up mud puddle look on ANY of your films huh? How old are your films? The one I had which went that way that soon was a kodachrome from 1991 and by 1998 it already had mud puddle cracks. They really show up in the sky or any part that's overexposed, not so noticeable in darker areas. I had kept it on the plastic 50 foot reel with the round plastic cover, it's in a kitchen cabinet on the top shelf, close to a washing machine but not directly above it. There are 200 foot commercial films in cardboard boxes which I've kept with it that did not age like that! I'm still not certain if the cracks are on the Base or emulsion side, wondering if having it on such a small core reel hurt it or if I might have wound it up too tight on its reel one day?