Well, @faberryman, this was a slightly inappropriate (for which I apologize) way of saying that I noticed your behavior in this thread over the past few days, which has not been very constructive or friendly. I refrained from stepping in until now, and I personally don't mind dealing with a snarky tone or a bad case of cynicism - you can reap what you sow as far as I'm concerned. However, others probably don't appreciate this kind of altercation, and frankly it's not really something I prefer either if given the choice. And given that your behavior is fairly consistent, it seems like a good point to see if we can change this around.
So let's keep the nastiness at this and continue from here in a way that nobody can mistake as trolling, shall we? I'd very much appreciate this, and so would many others, I'm sure.
Ah, but it decides the aperture and shutter speed, which do influence the content of the depth of field and the look of any moving object.
I have one Minolta X700 that I've started using in "P" mode with expired Vision2, obtained in a large volume for dirt cheap. Sometimes it surprises with a shutter speed unexpected for the lighting conditions. It's fun, just shooting away. Kind of like digital.
That sounds good, but I'm not really sure I want some engineer to dictate the shutter speed if I have already chosen it. I would rather see a Hi or Lo and make the call for myself if it is the shutter speed or aperture I want to change. Or grab a tripod if that is handy. The cameras I have that have a P setting automatically take into account the focal length of the lens, nothing to go to the menus for. The menu setting is generally for an absolute slower limit--some are comfortable with 1/30, some 1/15 or even slower. But the focal length will determine the preferred speed in P.
I meter pretty much the same for digital as for film, maybe exposing more for the highlights like reversal film when shooting digital. I have not found a significant difference between the two, it comes down to metering technique.
As an aside and more on-topic, all the spot illustrations are of film and film cameras in the current issue of The New Yorker.
I meter the same for both. I'll meter with my DSLR and transfer over the reading to my SLR if I have no meter for the SLR. I'll be more generous with over exposure with film though. For digital I attempt to be spot on when it calls for it.
What kind of film? Negative color or chromes?
Yeah, but it's also pretty narrow dynamic range.
I love me some Provia, and Velvia is Velvia, but when the highs start to go, they are gone. You just have to be right on and know what you'll lose of the scene is too contrasty.
Or luck into a bulk roll of expired Ektrachrome 64 and shoot with reckless abandon.
- Need a haze filter
- Need a building feature to remove the buildings.
That shot was mid day/afternoon (that position has much nicer light in the morning if I remember correctly) and etc... but it's better to take the shot than not take the shot in my mind.
When I'm somewhere photogenic I'll take the same shot I could get by buying a postcard, but I take it anyway. Good, bad, or otherwise, why not? Taking the photo is fun for me.
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How's Vision2? I've been shooting Vision3 but am curious about previous generations. I heard they made Vision2 well into Gen3 because many TV shows/Movies had used it Gen2 and for continuity they stuck to the stock they started with.
What I have is 250D off the outside end of a 400ft recan that spent 10 years in my fridge. Some colors came out pretty weird, but it could be because it was my 2nd-ever attempt at processing color neg and very poor photoshop color skills. Some came out pretty nice.
Two gigs out of three done for this week. Thursday was a band playing 20s blues/hokum/vaudeville who asked me to bring a 1920s camera...so the folding Kodak 1A was brought into action. Yes, you read that right. The band asked me to bring a specific film camera to photograph them.
Last night was a loud blues rock band, and I was one of two people photographing them on 35mm film. Additionally someone asked at the bar why the member of staff who usually takes phone pictures for the club's instagram feed wasn't doing so and she said "A will take loads of good photos and I'll just use his". I was also approached by another gig-goer who I've not spoken to before, and he said "I've noticed you at the front with really nice cameras. You're using film? What kind? Are they some of yours on the club's Instagram? I've got an old camera in a cupboard I'm thinking of dusting it off after seeing you here. Where can I get film?"
It was my pleasure to tell him that at 9am Monday he can purchase as much film as he likes from a shop on the same street as the club!
Attitudes have certainly changed. I see more people with film cameras around. I know from talking with staff at various shops that film is flying off the shelves, in the case of colour film way faster than they can restock. People are inquiring about buying used film cameras from the 50s to the 90s, mostly people under or around 30....those who haven't shot film before. I am not regarded as mad or even suspicious for carrying film cameras around any more.
On my recent trip to Arkansas and Missouri I found a couple of film cameras in flea markets and the staff there said they'd upped prices of "antique" cameras because people were now buying them to use rather than as display items. four Wal-Mart stores had run out of Fuji film. Five once I cleared the fifth one out LOL.
A few years back I brought an 35mm SLR as backup on a gig and some people got almost mad at me for bringing one. 'Why would you even? It's just stupid.'
Last week in the same place people were falling over themselves to get a look at the Nikon F and motor drive that I brought. These were teenage kids, they thought it was the coolest thing ever. My bells and whistles DSLR was boring.
In the late 90s when digital was just beginning to become "a thing" I started photographing one specific band on Fuji Super G and later Superia 1600. There was another guy shooting digital, and a small handful with compact cameras. Everyone other than me needed to use a flash, and the band commented that my photos were the first to show their spectacular stage show how it actually looked to the eye. I was using a SLR and fast colour film. By 2010, it was forbidden to take SLR's to such gigs. But also by then, everyone had a camera phone.
Funny how I can't bring a DSLR into many place but they'll let a TLR in.
The last time I was at a concert in a large venue, the guy checking bags for bombs and cameras said they allowed cameras with fixed lenses in, because given the distance between the seats and the performance stage, you couldn't get any decent photos of the performers without a large telephoto or zoom lens. Of course, different venues may have different policies.
What cracks me up is seeing people in the balcony with their iPhones or compact cameras shooting with flash. The light from the flash goes about ten feet and the performers are about a half a mile away. It runs down the battery pretty quickly too.
What cracks me up is seeing people in the balcony with their iPhones or compact cameras shooting with flash. The light from the flash goes about ten feet and the performers are about a half a mile away. It runs down the battery pretty quickly too.
Two gigs out of three done for this week. Thursday was a band playing 20s blues/hokum/vaudeville who asked me to bring a 1920s camera...so the folding Kodak 1A was brought into action. Yes, you read that right. The band asked me to bring a specific film camera to photograph them.
Last night was a loud blues rock band, and I was one of two people photographing them on 35mm film. Additionally someone asked at the bar why the member of staff who usually takes phone pictures for the club's instagram feed wasn't doing so and she said "A will take loads of good photos and I'll just use his". I was also approached by another gig-goer who I've not spoken to before, and he said "I've noticed you at the front with really nice cameras. You're using film? What kind? Are they some of yours on the club's Instagram? I've got an old camera in a cupboard I'm thinking of dusting it off after seeing you here. Where can I get film?"
It was my pleasure to tell him that at 9am Monday he can purchase as much film as he likes from a shop on the same street as the club!
Attitudes have certainly changed. I see more people with film cameras around. I know from talking with staff at various shops that film is flying off the shelves, in the case of colour film way faster than they can restock. People are inquiring about buying used film cameras from the 50s to the 90s, mostly people under or around 30....those who haven't shot film before. I am not regarded as mad or even suspicious for carrying film cameras around any more.
On my recent trip to Arkansas and Missouri I found a couple of film cameras in flea markets and the staff there said they'd upped prices of "antique" cameras because people were now buying them to use rather than as display items. four Wal-Mart stores had run out of Fuji film. Five once I cleared the fifth one out LOL.
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