Film User Spotted!

Sirius Glass

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Unless you have really lousy optics, which you do not as a Hasselblad owner, light coming at 90º for any lens other than a fisheye should not be entering the lens.
 

Ralph Javins

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Sirius Glass said:
Hot flash!: If one is not shooting towards or near the sun, the hood is not needed.

Steve
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Good moring, Steve;

Well, another obvious use for that lens hood is to make the lens look even bigger and more impressive. Perhaps those digi-users are simply being politely conservative.
 

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I went on holiday to France, Finistère, and I spotted a fair few film cameras and saw a good selection of films in shops and kiosks.

In Morlaix, I saw two film SLRs, newish types with black plastic bodies, only distinguishable from DSLRS by the lack of an LCD screen and a little film window. I also saw one, maybe two, film rangefinders. Then I saw a fellow shooting a TLR at the beach one evening and on my last day a young girl asked me to take her photo. She gave me her camera - a Nikon SLR loaded with Superia 200.
 

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AgX said:
Except of an Apug meeting I saw the last film camera user in september last year...
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Saw three cameras Yesterday!
(A Nikon F2, a Leicaflex and another Nikon (maybe FM).
I was riding a bike an an Autobahn, so could not see details...
 

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I saw news coverage of that large gathering on the autobahn.Impressive!Ron G
 

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My oldest son has started to show an interest in photography. So on our vactaion he was using his grandfathers old Olympus OM-20. On a visit to Penanze he was approached by another photographer who told him how she appreciated that he was using a film camera.

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Birger A.
 

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My point was that he was approached by someone else who is a film photographer...


Otherwise I agree that own offspring don't count, only in that I've tried to increase the number of film users all by myself (4 kids).

Best regards

Birger A.
 

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I went out to Stony Brook, Long Island today, and I spotted a film user, with a 4X5 !
But, that's cheating it was actually Stony Brook resident FM2N ( Arthur ) APUG Subscriber,
and Long Island @ Large Format, Group Member.

I created the group in June, it took a few weeks, but we finally got together today.
We were out for almost four hours, it's Arthurs' area so he had a few locations selected.
Stony Brook is a very photogenic area, and we got to shoot some film, and shoot the breeze.
We are definitely hoping to plan a session every few weeks, we are both off on Tuesdays,
probably not the most convenient day for an outing. We are also planning some weekend activities.
At this time all three group members are from Suffolk, but would love to meet some more Islanders !
We are shooting 4X5, and Larger of course, if you haven't got a camera we'll be more than happy to
have you come on down, and get involved and learn all about the Large Format Process.
Don't be discouraged, last year this time I was running around with a DigiSnapper.
Luckily I came to my senses !

Join the Group, and send me a PM.
The next meeting is Tuesday, August 3rd. 10:00 AM.
Weather permitting, location TBD ... possibly Connetquot State Park

Sorry for cheating, I am starting to realize that it's not easy to spot a film user on Long Island.


Ron

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tim elder

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A girl walking down the street noticed my camera today and told her friend "I want to buy a real camera like that and learn how to develop my own film. I hear it isn't that hard."

Maybe not a film camera spotted but a film user in the making?

Tim
 

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I was at an artistic Iron Pour festival last week in Alaska, and I spotted another 4x5 user, with a Graflex Speed Graphic, I think. Anyone recognize him?
 

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AgX

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Last night a quite old amateur photographer who once started with a Leica M3 photographing at a street festival with a M7 (with blackened type designation! and a modified hand grip), fittet with a Noctilux.
 

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Does she have a roll of Kodachrome to spare ?

Craig Swensson said:
How about in reverse huh?
My mother turned up for a 3 month stay... turns out she still uses a canon SLR and had 6 rolls of film with her
i never knew
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Hi Craig,

Hopefully we will be welcoming a new member to APUG soon.


Ron

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Long Island @ Large Format Group, right here on APUG
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Steve Smith

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A couple of days ago..... again on a bus..... and on the same route as the one in my original post - someone with a Pentax K1000.


Steve.
 

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Came across in a ghost-town two guys with an Aaton Xtera.

I guess that counts too.
 

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Yashicamat down at the pier at Gulf State Park. He didn't look too friendly and we didn't stop to chat.
 

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Walking to work in London just before 8am one day last week - just crossing Aldgate before heading down Minories - I saw a strange looking little twerp with one of those oversized "sock-cum-beanie hat" things that the trendies seem to be wearing at the moment. Then I noticed a camera strap slung across from shoulder to hip and attached at the strap - a Hasselblad 500 c/m.

He is still a trendy, weird little twerp but at least he has a modicum of taste.

I was so shocked, I missed out on the opportunity to ask him "Is that a Hasselblad?" just for the hell of it...
 

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....shame! I belong to a postal portfolio and one of the other members seems to think that film just isn't worth the time trouble and expense compared to digital, and that anyone who [shock horror!!] dares to shoot film is a deluded dinosaur who refuses to accept that modern technology is inevitably better. Thankfully not everyone else is as blinkered as this and there are more of us analoguers out there than we may think. Let's not protest too much though...if nobody went digital the supply of quality 2ndhand gear would be much reduced!
 

Paul Jenkin

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Agreed - but it's interesting to note that places like Aperture Photographic in London are turning over a high volume of "better end" film equipment. They're very selective about what stock they hold (mostly Leica, Hasselblad, Nikon and a bit of Canon (digital)) and it seems to be working for them.
 
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