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Digital cameras: Poll: Have you abandoned traditional film cameras?
- 9/26/08 1:30 PM
iall waayes use a digitla camera
by sumanasir - 9/29/08 12:49 AM In reply to: Poll: Have you abandoned traditional film cameras? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
it is easiar to me. i have a diploma in photograpy. after that i using a stoll camera .after several yeares i buy a digital camera. it is easy and funny too. am it person allso. digital camera easy to quic communication
I am using both....
by Larry38 - 9/29/08 9:01 AM In reply to: Poll: Have you abandoned traditional film cameras? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have a Canon 35MM that I have used for years, and still have about 2 rolls of film plus a few left on the roll in the camera.
About 3 weeks ago, I purchased my first Digital Camera, a Canon A590 IS as a starter camera. It has a lot of features or just point and shoot, I'm still learning how to use it but it does take excellent color pictures and I am very pleased with it. The only problem I had was the Memory Card that came with it, a 32MB card that only held 8 photos, so had to buy a 2GB Card which will be plenty of memory for me.
I guess when I use the film I now have for the 35MM I'll retire it and go strictly Digital. Sure hate to retire a good friend, but that's progress.
Larry
Always have a back-up.
by rockdoc2002 - 9/30/08 4:01 PM In reply to: Poll: Have you abandoned traditional film cameras? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Four years ago I bought a Reefmaster digital camera to take to Hawaii since I wanted to do some SNUBA at Maui. I had it 9 months before the trip so that I could make sure it would worked properly. It performed flawlessly! As I was packing for the trip I decided to take along my 35mm SLR with a couple of telephotos. When we arrived in Waikiki I took a picture of my wife on the balcony of our hotel room with the beach in the background. The image was blue. Every daylight image had a blue look but the flash images were perfect. I was glad I brought the 35mm as I now have FULL color memories of the trip. I now have a Nikon D40 and have yet to use the 35 but I still have it in battery as they say in the Navy.
Still using film for shooting, but not printing everything
by flautist59 - 10/1/08 11:02 AM In reply to: Poll: Have you abandoned traditional film cameras? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have a very nice Minolta SLR, that does everything I want it to.
I have a digital camera, but have used it only a couple of times. In fact, the last time I went to get it out it wasn't working! It seems the rechargeable battery has stopped holding a charge (too much time on the charger? who knows if the batteries have "memory" anymore?)!
When we went to Europe over the summer, I only took things that I could buy batteries for since I wasn't planning on buying adaptors to plug in over there. So my trusty SLR went with me - I could buy batteries, film (cheaper than memory cards)- and I processed the film and created CDs when I got back.
So I guess I won't be abandoning my film camera any time soon - it still works, which is more than I can say for the digital one!
SDH
(NT) i stopped 2 yrs ago
by harleydavidsons - 10/1/08 7:46 PM In reply to: Still using film for shooting, but not printing everything by flautist59Digital only here!
by osv2 - 10/2/08 4:24 PM In reply to: Still using film for shooting, but not printing everything by flautist59i have a pentax k10d that has been a great camera, i'll never use film again.
Yes, I am shooting strictly digital
by wfairley - 10/5/08 12:29 PM In reply to: Poll: Have you abandoned traditional film cameras? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I still keep my Canon Elan 5 with Eye Control for teaching the basics of shutter and aperture, and focal length, since I can open the back and show the students what the shutter looks like at 1/15th of a second, etc. and show them what aperture of f3.5 versus f8 or f11 or f22. It also allows me to discuss focal length and the use of accessories such as teleconverters and extension tubes. It also makes the math easier to learn, since everything is calculated to 35mm film size.
However, I don't take it with me anymore on shoots; I carry digital cameras (usually the EOS 30D). I recently took an old image to the local Sam's Club to print on their Epson wide format printer as an experiment, and I am quite pleased with the results (20x30 print for $11.36 plus tax, presented in a mailing tube ready for the address). I also like the concept of changing ISO rating on the fly - in fact this was a real challenge for me, since in the film world it means changing film. It is a delight to switch between ISO 100 and ISO 3200 "between shots" on the same shoot! Also, being able to preview a shot immediately after taking it was never an option with my film work. Sure, there was an artistic sense of creativity in the dark room, and some of my photographer friends have kept a dark room (or at least kept the equipment in the garage). I don't miss it that much. I am now anticipating the next generation of DSLR technologies.
- Woody Fairley
abandoned traditional...
by Maggie707 - 10/7/08 1:38 AM In reply to: Poll: Have you abandoned traditional film cameras? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Yes,
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