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I finnally found it! I found what I've been looking for for years, a website devoted to anolog photography!!!
I have been trying to "fit in" at other forums on the net, and lets just say I've been having a hard time of it. One site I was posting on was full of digital snapshooters. Someone posted the thread "what did you do with all your film cameras when you went digital" completely assuming that (1) everbody had gone digital, and (2) that nobody used their film cameras once they went digital.
What really ticked me off were the replies. Poster after poster mocked the time-trusted medium, saying things like "film, what is that?" and other stuff.
Needless to say it was time to move on.
I hate to admit it, but the first camera I owned was a digital P&S. I used that for close to a year, then I started going online. I found www.photo.net, and learned what real photographs looked like. Needless to say I quickly became completely dis-satisfied with my $150 digicam.
I was wandering around the house one day, wondering what to do. I had no job, and I had very little money. Then I was down in the basement when I saw this "thing" hanging on the wall. I took it upstairs to ask my father what it was. He said "oh, that's my old Minolta". So, I unbutton the old case and open it to find a Minolta SRT 101!!!
My father showed my how to use the match needle once I put a new battery in it, and I went and bought my first roll of film at a lab. My father showed me how to load it, and I proceeded to start snapping. That was spring of 2003.
I was quite pleased with the results, except for one thing, I had no way to edit the photos and share them digitally, save scanning prints. So, one day in July of 2003 I fell for all the whopla on the net that said a $300 digicam could compete with film. I bought a Canon A70, and took it everywhere. Then, 3 months later it broke. I sent it back to Canon for repair.
Bummed, I decided that taking photos with the SRT was better than not taking any photos at all, so I pulled out the SRT. I immediatly found what a joy it was to use an optical veiwfinder again. So, I decided to get some of my photos from Europe scanned at my grocery store. Now, today I think the scans were crap, but at that time I was completley blown away. I had no idea the amount of detail that film could capture.
When my A70 came in the mail a week later, I didn't even turn it on. I had swtiched back to film, and I have been ever since. I have since purchased a Minolta XG-M in near mint condition, and more recently a Minolta Maxxum 5. I also have a Yashica A TLR that I bought off eBay for $40, but film and development costs prevent me from using it that much. Also, I have a Minolta Scan Dual (the original), and the professional version of Vuescan and Neat Image (The old scan dual gets some noise sometimes).
I am constanly blown away as to what a 5 year old scanner and some 35mm film can do! I hope to be blown away agian once I purchase the Nikon Coolscan V. I'm buying it so that I can get into some freelance work, doing photo and negaitve scanning and resoration. I hope to double or tripple my income in the coming weeks doing something that I actually love. I can't wait to get started!
Well, that's about it for my phography background. Hope you enjoyed it!
Dan O.
I have been trying to "fit in" at other forums on the net, and lets just say I've been having a hard time of it. One site I was posting on was full of digital snapshooters. Someone posted the thread "what did you do with all your film cameras when you went digital" completely assuming that (1) everbody had gone digital, and (2) that nobody used their film cameras once they went digital.
What really ticked me off were the replies. Poster after poster mocked the time-trusted medium, saying things like "film, what is that?" and other stuff.
Needless to say it was time to move on.
I hate to admit it, but the first camera I owned was a digital P&S. I used that for close to a year, then I started going online. I found www.photo.net, and learned what real photographs looked like. Needless to say I quickly became completely dis-satisfied with my $150 digicam.
I was wandering around the house one day, wondering what to do. I had no job, and I had very little money. Then I was down in the basement when I saw this "thing" hanging on the wall. I took it upstairs to ask my father what it was. He said "oh, that's my old Minolta". So, I unbutton the old case and open it to find a Minolta SRT 101!!!
My father showed my how to use the match needle once I put a new battery in it, and I went and bought my first roll of film at a lab. My father showed me how to load it, and I proceeded to start snapping. That was spring of 2003.
I was quite pleased with the results, except for one thing, I had no way to edit the photos and share them digitally, save scanning prints. So, one day in July of 2003 I fell for all the whopla on the net that said a $300 digicam could compete with film. I bought a Canon A70, and took it everywhere. Then, 3 months later it broke. I sent it back to Canon for repair.
Bummed, I decided that taking photos with the SRT was better than not taking any photos at all, so I pulled out the SRT. I immediatly found what a joy it was to use an optical veiwfinder again. So, I decided to get some of my photos from Europe scanned at my grocery store. Now, today I think the scans were crap, but at that time I was completley blown away. I had no idea the amount of detail that film could capture.
When my A70 came in the mail a week later, I didn't even turn it on. I had swtiched back to film, and I have been ever since. I have since purchased a Minolta XG-M in near mint condition, and more recently a Minolta Maxxum 5. I also have a Yashica A TLR that I bought off eBay for $40, but film and development costs prevent me from using it that much. Also, I have a Minolta Scan Dual (the original), and the professional version of Vuescan and Neat Image (The old scan dual gets some noise sometimes).
I am constanly blown away as to what a 5 year old scanner and some 35mm film can do! I hope to be blown away agian once I purchase the Nikon Coolscan V. I'm buying it so that I can get into some freelance work, doing photo and negaitve scanning and resoration. I hope to double or tripple my income in the coming weeks doing something that I actually love. I can't wait to get started!
Well, that's about it for my phography background. Hope you enjoyed it!
Dan O.
I look forward to seeing some of your photos.
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