How many still use 35mm SLR Film?

trishw78 · 04-09-2007 01:07PM #1

I was reading some of the posts in this forum and I was wondering do many people still use 35mm film camera's or has everyone gone digital.

bovril · 04-09-2007 01:12PM

I still own a 35mm film camera and I still have some film (which is probably out of date by now). I always keep meaning to take it out and use it and put to use all the things I have learned since I went digital but I never get around to it. For me at the minute I only shoot digital.

magicbastarder · 04-09-2007 01:13PM

i do; mainly slide and b&w. i have a DSLR too, but i find i use the film cameras more.
partly because i have a fridge full of film, 90% inherited, and partly because i find working with film more rewarding.

unreggd · 04-09-2007 01:13PM

I'll prob be usin it loads again when I go back to college

But for personal/work use theres just no point when I have my 350D

City-Exile · 04-09-2007 01:16PM

For me personally, film was expensive & impractical. Digital photography has revolutionised sports coverage. Give me Photoshop over a wet darkroom any day.

thefizz · 04-09-2007 01:25PM

trishw78 wrote:

I was reading some of the posts in this forum and I was wondering do many people still use 35mm film camera's or has everyone gone digital.

Judging by the choice of film currently available, I'd say there are plenty of people still using 35mm film and I would be one of them.

minikin · 04-09-2007 01:29PM

run some through the machine every so often, last time was about a month ago... an uplifting experience, you forget the buzz of looking at a well exposed neg knowing that it's down to you rather than photoshop...

magicbastarder · 04-09-2007 01:31PM

got a roll back yesterday of delta 3200. the grain is only glorious.

deRanged · 04-09-2007 01:35PM

I just ordered a new 35mm slr yesterday!
I already have one, and love using it. I've just started messing with a Holga too, and bought developing kit so I can try that out too.

My 400d is feeling a bit left out i think

Hugh_C · 04-09-2007 01:38PM

Still have an old (1980s) Yashica and a fabulous Zeiss Ikon Colora (1961) that I use on a semi-regular basis, generally for BW on Ilford. Mostly I use my Nikon D70, but as others have said, sometimes you just can't beat the grain.

The camera that gets lest use round the house is the Canon Digital Ixus P&S which asn't been out for ages. Poor yoke.

magicbastarder · 04-09-2007 01:43PM

i have seven cameras, of which one is the DSLR; three olympus 35mm bodies, a hasselblad, a rolleiflex TLR, a holga, and the DSLR.

ThOnda · 04-09-2007 01:48PM

Only films cameras in my drawer. Didjital one only implemented in mobile.

peter1892 · 04-09-2007 02:10PM

I still use 35mm for B&W (all colour is on digital now). I prefer 35mm B&W to digital, and I like working in the darkroom every now & again

magicbastarder · 04-09-2007 02:52PM

we should have a film-only photo thread. it can be called 'proper photography'.

trishw78 · 04-09-2007 03:21PM

magicbastarder wrote:

we should have a film-only photo thread. it can be called 'proper photography'.

Lol.

You have all restored my faith. After the mini-war I had with a certain shop over the way my negatives were hacked up I think I'll revert back to exposing my own B&W film again. I might as well I have all the appropriate equipment I'll just have to buy the chemicals.

I'm still considering buying a DSLR for the colour work any names or cameras I should avoid like the plague

Benster · 04-09-2007 03:24PM

Yes, film still used, mostly only B+W as the cost of colour development was horrendous when I used film only. I use "proper" B+W film, not the C41-process stuff you can leave into a chemist to get dev+printed.

I would love to have a go at medium format B+W as well.

B.

City-Exile · 04-09-2007 03:26PM

magicbastarder wrote:

we should have a film-only photo thread. it can be called 'proper photography'.

And how exactly do you propose to get your film-only photos onto a thread? Unless of course you mean cotton thread!?
Heaven forbid you'd actually digitise your "proper" photos & post them on the internet.

Zombrex · 04-09-2007 03:28PM

While I love digital still nothing beats film, so when ever I have the time I shot on black & white using my old Canon

The issue is the time to develop it and to book a dark room, so I tend to save it for special projects that I don't need in a hurry.

magicbastarder · 04-09-2007 03:28PM

City-Exile wrote:

And how exactly do you propose to get your film-only photos onto a thread? Unless of course you mean cotton thread!?
Heaven forbid you'd actually digitise your "proper" photos & post them on the internet.

i'd describe them in great detail.

City-Exile · 04-09-2007 03:34PM

magicbastarder wrote:

i'd describe them in great detail.

Have you tried the creative writing forum?

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 04-09-2007 03:44PM

I keep hearing people going on and on about the grain... what's up with that?
You think years from now people will be reminiscing about "aah lovely CCD noise, so authentic".
I'm sure there's something I'm missing here.

magicbastarder · 04-09-2007 03:54PM

i've no sull size scans knocking about, so most of the pics i have taken on fast film would have lost a lot of their graininess due to resizing, so the impact of the grain is somewhat lost.

as to why i think it looks good; i suppose that's just taste.

trishw78 · 04-09-2007 04:25PM

I do like messing about with film. pushing and pulling is always interesting

Cabaal · 04-09-2007 04:59PM

Trish, move to the dark side get a DSLR...mwhahaha
You know you want to

Roen · 04-09-2007 05:47PM

Gave up on film entirely, gave my last working film camera away (a mamiya 645) last year.

Hope it's being used more than I was using it.....ahem, you know who you are!

TelePaul · 04-09-2007 05:50PM

Yeah but it's expensive for me to get developed and that puts me off; also my dslr gear is much more high end.

mtracey · 04-09-2007 05:54PM

35mm on Nikon FE and 120 on Pentacon and Ilford Super Sporti. All B+W

Fajitas! · 04-09-2007 06:25PM

Have a good few film cameras. I still play around with them, but primarily use digital.

You're right Trish, pulling is always interesting...

Rojo · 04-09-2007 06:46PM

Fajitas! wrote:

You're right Trish, pulling is always interesting...

ha ha ha

I use film, but not as much as I'd like to...! Nothing beats the darkroom for me - it's like magic seeing your photos appear on paper.

leinsterman · 04-09-2007 08:24PM

... Just purchased a "new" second hand EOS3 film body from B&H to replace my old EOS500 ...

I love shooting film ... but only do black and white because I can develop and print these myself .. and I like to be completely involved in the end to end process from shooting to printing ...

... anyways isn't sending film to a lab for developing is cheating ??? ... (actually I don't really believe this ... but if those gombeens who claim that using CS3 to develop images is cheating are to be believed then the same must be true in film... so getting someone else to print for you is cheating ... right:(:confused:???)

I have to confess to using a bit of digital in the process ... I scan all my negatives and make contact sheets on a computer before deciding what to print ... is this cheating too ?? ... who cares ???

trishw78 · 05-09-2007 08:31AM

Cabaal wrote:

Trish, move to the dark side get a DSLR...mwhahaha
You know you want to

I will be visiting the darkside eventually, but I'll keep my trusty film camera.

I decided recently to go back to developing my own film because of the hack job a certain company did on cutting the negatives 2 or 3 of the negatives are now completely useless.

How many still use 35mm SLR Film?

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