Looking for a digital path to film

Semi-ambivalent,
What a wonderful story! Glad to hear he likes his kit! Very nice approach and great outcome.
Sounds like you received your fathers day gift a little early.
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A Fuji Instax is film but instant gratification at the same time.

stavrosk said:

A Fuji Instax is film but instant gratification at the same time.

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I keep looking at those and thinking how cool it would be to have one for snapping photos and just handing them to people.

I always feel like I am going to regret not having a scan of those...

Has the film bug bitten?

I've only recently returned to film myself. At any rate, there's a pair of doves that's been sitting on a nest in a tree that's in our little town's business district. We have been watching the nest for a few days now, and wouldn't you know it, sometime yesterday the eggs hatched. When I got home from work today, I took my 11 year old son up there and told him to grab his d*gital camera. I had my SLR and my d*gital P&S with me as well. We took a few pictures and then went home. When we got home he asked me if there was a way I could put his picture of the doves on "those tapes you put in the projector" (he couldn't remember that they're called "slides" ) He seemed disappointed when I told him I could not do it (I know there are places out there that can though). Could it be that the film bug has bitten him too?

ME Super

ME Super said:

Could it be that the film bug has bitten him too?

ME Super

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One can only hope. It's been mentioned upthread the power of seeing a print come up in the developer. My son already loves taking pictures and I'm thinking seeing that will close the deal.

Good luck there. You could get an assistant, a colleague, a competitor, a student and a mentor, all rolled into one.

Photo Engineer said:

I have found that all of my analog Nikon lenses will work on current Nikon digital cameras, but no Nikon lens for their digital cameras will work on the analog cameras. The reason is the smaller sensor size in the digital cameras. So, with analog lenses on digital cameras you get a bit larger image, but otherwise, things are just fine.

I'm using my old 2020 lenses on a D70 with no problem. I have a Micro Nikor that works just fine either way.

PE

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It sounds like you are equating the phrase "digital camera" with the APS-C format. But digital SLR cameras come in at least four common formats (full frame, APS-H, APS-C, and 4/3, plus one that is very close to APS-C; Sigma).