Are you a photography masochist?

[MattKing]

Private message, direct message. I get my terms confused.

FWIW, with the version of software used here, it probably should be PC for "Private Conversation".

 

[Cholentpot]

FWIW, with the version of software used here, it probably should be PC for "Private Conversation".

Don't care, as long as I score some well stored 70mm.

 

[Huss]

The people here left junior high school decades ago. That idea gets shot down at this website on a regular basis.

Where’s the “don’t like” button?

 

[grat]

Where’s the “don’t like” button?

Nobody liked it.

 

[grat]

Need I mention my film safe dark room is located in my attic in a luggage closet and in the summer it gets to 100+ degrees humid and no airflow? When do I need that room? In the summer. At night. When it's hottest. There's also a metal pipe that supposed to be a hanger line at the same height as the back of my head.

Now picture all that with hand slitting and re-rolling 70mm down to 120. I can do about 4 rolls before I've soaked through and start messing up the film. I've got a collection of 80's sweatbands that come into good use.

Just in case anyone is reading that has a stash of 70mm bulk in there freezer. Give me a DM, I'm interested.

I've recently discovered that affordable digital IR goggles have come out that operate in the 940nm range. Even 850nm should be reasonably safe for most film, since HIE is long gone. While I'm primarily interested in being able to develop panchromatic film by inspection, the idea of being able to actually see what I'm doing in the dark appeals to me.

 

[KerrKid]

Yes, firmly off topic for the most part...

I’ve done 180 mph on my Honda Blackbird on two-lane country roads. 150 mph routinely. Heck, I’ve been over 150 mph riding two-up with my wife on the back. Since I was a kid, every bike I’ve had I’ve gone as fast as they will go.

Here in Texas Hill Country, I can’t do that high speed stuff due to the deer population. Now I mostly just see how fast I can go in the corners.

I probably get 32-35 mph on the bike, but for the way I ride that’s not bad.

What I need is one of those modular helmets so I can use my film cameras better. It’s impossible to look through a viewfinder with a regular full face helmet.

 

[Huss]

Yes, firmly off topic for the most part...

I’ve done 180 mph on my Honda Blackbird on two-lane country roads. 150 mph routinely. Heck, I’ve been over 150 mph riding two-up with my wife on the back. Since I was a kid, every bike I’ve had I’ve gone as fast as they will go.

Here in Texas Hill Country, I can’t do that high speed stuff due to the deer population. Now I mostly just see how fast I can go in the corners.

I probably get 32-35 mph on the bike, but for the way I ride that’s not bad.

What I need is one of those modular helmets so I can use my film cameras better. It’s impossible to look through a viewfinder with a regular full face helmet.

You know all the cool bird names have already been taken by the time they get to having to use blackbird. Then again at least they got that before having to go with Honda Budgerigar.

 

[KerrKid]

You know all the cool bird names have already been taken by the time they get to having to use blackbird. Then again at least they got that before having to go with Honda Budgerigar.

Yeh, Budgerigar would have been a mouthful. Probably would be shortened to "Bud" by owners resulting in awkward conversation like, "I'm going to ride my bud today."

I believe the Blackbird name was taken from the SR-71 Blackbird.

Most of the fast bikes are like fast lenses. You get an f1.2 because it's the fastest lens out there but shoot it stopped down to f8 most of the time.

 

[Cholentpot]

I've recently discovered that affordable digital IR goggles have come out that operate in the 940nm range. Even 850nm should be reasonably safe for most film, since HIE is long gone. While I'm primarily interested in being able to develop panchromatic film by inspection, the idea of being able to actually see what I'm doing in the dark appeals to me.

Depends on what is considered affordable.

I did use a 90's camcorder with 'nightvision' to roll 220 once. Issue was that there's a small red LED that projects the beam. It didn't affect the film but I'm not going to risk it again.

 

[VinceInMT]

Depends on what is considered affordable.

Well, yes. My son and daughter-in-law just bought their first house, a 3br, 2ba, rancher. It’s in Mountainview, CA. Price: over $2 million. One of the things they liked about it is that is “affordable.”

 

[VinceInMT]

Where's the "like" button?

Apparently, they used them all up in the Gallery.

 

[grat]

Depends on what is considered affordable.

I did use a 90's camcorder with 'nightvision' to roll 220 once. Issue was that there's a small red LED that projects the beam. It didn't affect the film but I'm not going to risk it again.

$150 (USD) to $300 range. The 940nm emitters put out a very faint visible glow, but I suspect it's not an issue. Far dimmer than an indirect low-wattage safe-light.

 

[Cholentpot]

$150 (USD) to $300 range. The 940nm emitters put out a very faint visible glow, but I suspect it's not an issue. Far dimmer than an indirect low-wattage safe-light.

I did a gig on the Kodak campus in Rochester a few years ago. Nothing to do with film but the employees were former Kodak employees. They told me when they would roll 120, the room would have faint green lights in the corners. They also hated HIE days because there was zero light.

 

[grat]

Yeah-- In theory, the 940nm system could be used with HIE, as HIE is supposed to drop off around 900nm, but I think I'd be too paranoid.

 

[深度麻醉]

I must be.

 

[Huss]

I must be.

So I'm not the only one that feels like that?

 

[MartinCrabtree]

You're looking at your AF slr. Great lens. Always gives sharp, perfectly exposed pics. Always gives you the results you want. And yet you pick up that manual everything, no meter, maybe even guess focus relic..
Why do you do that to yourself?
Guilty as charged.

Not only am I guilty of that but I shoot old film that lives in my freezer for years before I use it. And I put that manual focus stuff on modern AF cameras too.

 

[Huss]

Apparently, they used them all up in the Gallery.

I decided to roll my own. From here on out if I like something

 

[nikkormat]

You're looking at your AF slr. Great lens. Always gives sharp, perfectly exposed pics. Always gives you the results you want. And yet you pick up that manual everything, no meter, maybe even guess focus relic..
Why do you do that to yourself?
Guilty as charged.

I have a perfectly good DSLR, a couple of great AF primes and a decent zoom, but I take maybe 50 photos a year with them. I much prefer the expense, unpredictability, slowness and frequent disappointment of my old Nikon F2 and Nikkormats. Even the F3 feels a bit too much like an easy ride.

I also use fountain pens and end up covered in ink, and my first car back in 2001 was a 1966 Triumph Herald. I remember taking a girlfriend out in it and having to explain why there were so many towels in there.

I had to sell it when I went back to studying; some time later I heard it had suffered a bad but repairable electrical fire, but then it was written off after being hit by a lorry.

 

[faberryman]

I much prefer the expense, unpredictability, slowness and frequent disappointment of my old Nikon F2 and Nikkormats. Even the F3 feels a bit too much like an easy ride.

Gosh, I don't know how we coped all those years having to use those old rattletrap cameras. Sometimes it was just all too overwhelming, but somehow we persevered, undoubtedly through sheer grit and determination.

Do you actually think that shooting film with a Nikon F2 or Nikkormat is a complicated and exhausting ordeal?

 

[nikkormat]

Gosh, I don't know how we coped all those years having to use those old rattletrap cameras. Sometimes it was just all too overwhelming, but somehow we persevered, undoubtedly through sheer grit and determination.

Do you actually think that shooting film with a Nikon F2 or Nikkormat is a complicated and exhausting ordeal?

No, of course not. I am entering into the spirit of the thread.

 

[Cholentpot]

Gosh, I don't know how we coped all those years having to use those old rattletrap cameras. Sometimes it was just all too overwhelming, but somehow we persevered, undoubtedly through sheer grit and determination.

Do you actually think that shooting film with a Nikon F2 or Nikkormat is a complicated and exhausting ordeal?

My thumb gets tired.

 

[faberryman]

My thumb gets tired.

You need to up your sheer grit and determination game. Or check into getting a winder or motor drive.

 

[Cholentpot]

You need to up your sheer grit and determination game. Or check into getting a winder or motor drive.

Motor drive is heavy.

This isn't a kvetch thread! This about really doing stupid torturous pointless things just because.

Carrying a non-prismed Nikon F with an MD is not so bad. Doing the same but the MD is powered by a belt pouch battery pack? That's more like it.

 

[madNbad]

Motor drive is heavy.

This isn't a kvetch thread! This about really doing stupid torturous pointless things just because.

Carrying a non-prismed Nikon F with an MD is not so bad. Doing the same but the MD is powered by a belt pouch battery pack? That's more like it.

Like trying not to strangle yourself with the cord from the Quantum battery to the flash.