Film User Spotted!

[nyoung]

In the "hope for the future" department, last November I was at a school days event at the Texas Renaissance Festival where I spotted an apparent class of - 20 or so - high school aged kids shooting film SLRS and believe this - taking notes on 3x5 cards after every shot they made. I spent some time looking around for their instructor but sadly I didn't spy out the responsible adult.

 

[Jedidiah Smith]

Nyoung,
That's great! I only wish my old high school in Alaska was still doing those outings! Alas, the darkroom sits idle, enlargers and all gear in place, waiting for someone who cares to spin the darkroom door again. . .

 

[jp498]

I guess I'm not a lone weirdo for putting a Nikon D300 strap on my Yashica TLR and appreciating the irony. the Yashica is comparable quality with TMX film, and a lot lighter.

It's a hand-me-down strap really, as I put a new Tamrac suede strap on my Nikon. The nikon strap is good, but not as nice/grippy as the tamrac. I didn't have any other halfway decent straps sitting around for the TLR.

Dead Link Removed

Tamrac strap:
http://www.freestylephoto.biz/705053-Tamrac-Anti-Slip-Digital-Camera-Strap-Black?cat_id=907

 

[lxdude]

Well, jp,
If anybody calls you a weirdo just tell them it's performance art.

 

[Wilcoxson David L.]

jp498

OUTSTANDING!! That strap looks GOOD on your Yashica! HOORAH! I need something similar for my Rolleiflex.

 

[photogolf]

A few months ago, I was at the new Porsche museum in Stuttgart and upon leaving there after a F5 film shooting day, I was grabbed on film by a photog guy using a Mamiya RZ 67. He liked my F5 and I loved his RZ 67 so we had a nice 30 minute coffee/film talk break.

 

[Denis P.]

This (very nice and soft) strap used to live attached to my Leica M3, before I sold it. I kept the strap

 

[lns]

It makes me very sad that it has come to a state that seeing someone with a film camera is a remarkable occurance .

I just got back from London & Paris. Both great cities for photography. Going to all the tourist haunts, the museums and such, and walking around both cities endlessly, I saw a grand total of two film cameras. A Nikon F and a Nikon F2. People were actually staring at my son when he used his FM2. It was strange.

Glad to be back on APUG.

-Laura

 

[benjiboy]

I just got back from London & Paris. Both great cities for photography. Going to all the tourist haunts, the museums and such, and walking around both cities endlessly, I saw a grand total of two film cameras. A Nikon F and a Nikon F2. People were actually staring at my son when he used his FM2. It was strange.

Glad to be back on APUG.

-Laura

Hi Laura , I hope you enjoyed your trip to two wonderful citys, I lived in London for a few years, and I spent some very happy times in Paris as a child visiting my aunt in the summer holidays who was married to a Frenchman .

 

[Focus No. 9]

Adopt a High School

Nyoung,
That's great! I only wish my old high school in Alaska was still doing those outings! Alas, the darkroom sits idle, enlargers and all gear in place, waiting for someone who cares to spin the darkroom door again. . .

Jedidiah, that is sad news. Perhaps we can put our collective efforts behind some sort of inititive to induce the school to start a summer program. I only wish I had taken journalism in high school as that appeared the be the only way to study photography. So perhaps a summer program supported by APUG members or ....???? can be lifted off the ground. Alaska seems to be a great place to learn about the capture of light. I would be very happy to help/organize a campaign. Where/What name/details about the school can you provide? You can PM me if you like.

Back to the film user spotted theme, I recently attended a family reunion. I was the only one using film cameras. At a Memorial Holiday BBQ. I was told by a younger man (20's-30's)that he did not know that film was still being made and how did I get my camera out of the museum! I hope he was kidding. Uggghh.

 

[lns]

Hi Laura , I hope you enjoyed your trip to two wonderful citys, I lived in London for a few years, and I spent some very happy times in Paris as a child visiting my aunt in the summer holidays who was married to a Frenchman .

Hi Ben! London and Paris were wonderful, despite the lack of film cameras. I even used my Sekonic meter and shot Kodachrome.

While in London, we discovered Mary Queen of Shops on the BBC. This is certainly the greatest television show in the world. Can we get Mary working on the film industry? She'd shape up Kodak in a month, brassily chewing out the flailing executives and cleverly rebranding the product, all while wearing dangerously high heels and driving a sporty convertible.

-Laura

 

[Simplicius]

I was out yesterday, doing my usual walkabout of the streets of Dublin City. I had an Agfa Isolette III folder in my paw. I ran across 3 other film photogs during a 3 hour period. One sporting an Olympus Trip, One had the new Bessa folder and another a Leica M6 .. All lead to interesting coversations.

 

[bdial]

Passed by a guy with a Leica RF at the ready yesterday noontime in Washington D.C.
Didn't have a chance to stop and visit though.

 

[j-dogg]

I have yet to see anyone shooting film here, although several people have complimented me on both of my Nikons.

 

[stradibarrius]

Last year, we had one of our local Warriors fall in Iraq and there was a town gathering of honor and respect as his funeral procession came through town. I went to photograph the solemn occasion and took my RB67. I had numerous comments by people who were shooting digital about what a great looking camera I had. They were asking me if I was a photographer for one of the major news publications????
They know quality when they see it.

 

[benjiboy]

Hi Ben! London and Paris were wonderful, despite the lack of film cameras. I even used my Sekonic meter and shot Kodachrome.

While in London, we discovered Mary Queen of Shops on the BBC. This is certainly the greatest television show in the world. Can we get Mary working on the film industry? She'd shape up Kodak in a month, brassily chewing out the flailing executives and cleverly rebranding the product, all while wearing dangerously high heels and driving a sporty convertible.

-Laura

Glad you like it Laura, I do too, I admire her professionalism, she really knows her business and she's a very elegant woman.

P.S You can watch some of the episodes in the US on Youtube.

 

[dracblau]

A couple of weeks ago I was walking around Los Angeles with my Canon QL17 rangefinder and had several compliments on the camera from complete strangers on the street. It seems people are still happy to see film cameras used whether or not they use them themselves.

 

[AgX]

Except of an Apug meeting I saw the last film camera user in september last year...

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Went to a cousin's son's bar mitzvah this past weekend, carrying a camera of the sort that we don't talk about on APUG, since I was shooting mainly to e-mail some snaps to relatives who couldn't make it, and was pleasantly surprised to learn that said bar mitzvah boy's sister is quite a good film photographer and is headed to the Art Institute of Chicago next year. Both she and her mother were shooting 35mm.

Saw a guy with a nicely weathered black Nikon F2 over his shoulder in B&H today.

 

[benjiboy]

I saw a woman who's a friend of mine in the city centre yesterday she's a photographer for the city council, she was photographing a public building with a 5X4 camera on a tripod..

 

[Terrence Brennan]

Canada Day in Ottawa

I was out and about in Ottawa for the annual Canada Day celebrations on Parliament Hill and the visit of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. Instead of my usual Nikon F kit, I went out with my Leica M-4P. Over the course of the six-odd hours my wife and I spent in the downtown core, I saw exactly ONE other film camera, a motorized Minolta, and had a chance to pass only a few words with the photographer.

I did, however, see lots and lots of digithrowaways, and my favorite, fauxtographers with digital SLRs...complete with the lens hoods mounted on the lenses as for storage--backwards!

 

[Trask]

Oh, yeah! I just love the folks who buy Canon d*gital SLRs and don't realize that the lens hood should be removed and mounted properly before shooting! I honestly think they don't know that that's what they are - and it doesn't seem to occur to them to ask themselves why a reputable camera company like Canon would design a lens with a dohickey that hits your hand while using the lens. I just grin and walk on...

 

[Sirius Glass]

Oh, yeah! I just love the folks who buy Canon d*gital SLRs and don't realize that the lens hood should be removed and mounted properly before shooting! I honestly think they don't know that that's what they are - and it doesn't seem to occur to them to ask themselves why a reputable camera company like Canon would design a lens with a dohickey that hits your hand while using the lens. I just grin and walk on...

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

Steve

 

[Q.G.]

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

Steve

I disagree, Steve.

The only time a hood is not needed is when the only light there is, is the light you will capture on film.
Else, there's always light entering the lens that doesn't contribute to the image you hope to capture, except in a unhelpfull way.

 

[removed-user-1]

My mother-in-law recently lost her 35mm Canon Sureshot, which she's had for a long time. Several family members encouraged her to go d*****l, but she isn't interested in that. So, my wife and I gave her a 35mm Olympus Stylus we had sitting unused (the battery was even dead). She couldn't be happier with her "new" film camera!