Selling a film camera on Craigslist...

[Roger Cole]

I’ve been thinking about this. I wonder if it’s simply a terminology issue. Suspend for a moment our knowledge that 35mm film comes in “rolls”. What if the buyer simply understands a different word for a unit of film, for example a cartridge or cassette?

If you think film comes in “cartridges” (and if your last camera was an APS, that would be a common term), and the seller tells you that they’ve put several “rolls” through the camera and everything is working fine, I could potentially see how someone might think that rolls might be things (rollers, gears, part of the transport mechanism, something that turns?) that need to be replaced on occasion in order for the camera to work properly.

That's one possibility.

In the past, 120 (and 127 etc, paper backed film that came on a spool) was called "roll film" to distinguish it from both sheet film and 35mm.

But everyone I know who shoots or shot 35mm does refer to them as rolls as well, and always did.

Still, APS, 126, 110 all come to mind as film that came in cartridges that a not-so-technical user might not realize were "rolls."

 

[Rick A]

Is it a cake hole or a pie hole? I've always been confused about that, yet I know I have a distinct preference.

I love pie, I have a pie hole. I don't care for cake, you have a cake hole.

 

[StoneNYC]

Stone--you young whippersnappers might have your youth still, but I wouldn't trade my blessing of being a 12 1/2 year old boy in the summer of '69. I've posted this link before, I'm sure. But I still go back and watch the whole 10 min video of it every year or so. Give it a go, for the whole 10 mins,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGNryrsT7OI

Would rather have been 18 in '69 ... Oh the girls!!! Lol

 

[StoneNYC]

Is it a cake hole or a pie hole? I've always been confused about that, yet I know I have a distinct preference.

I think cake hole is more aggressive and angry/nasty and pie hole is more slapstick and lighter and was used more in early comedies.

That's how I feel when I hear it.

 

[Rick A]

Would rather have been 18 in '69 ... Oh the girls!!! Lol

I was 17 in 1969--oh the girls...

 

[Tom1956]

Would rather have been 18 in '69 ... Oh the girls!!! Lol

I was into Estes model rockets. I'm glad I wasn't older then--that crowd was into protesting and carrying on, and getting into political movements, and being just generally weird. Glad I was too young for that. Glad I was also too young to go off to Viet Nam and getting shot at. Guess I was lucky. Back then the Apollo missions and my Instamatic 104 were all I cared about.

 

[Richard S. (rich815)]

I was into Estes model rockets. I'm glad I wasn't older then--that crowd was into protesting and carrying on, and getting into political movements, and being just generally weird. Glad I was too young for that. Glad I was also too young to go off to Viet Nam and getting shot at. Guess I was lucky. Back then the Apollo missions and my Instamatic 104 were all I cared about.

I was only 6 in 1969 but remember it well. And I was into Estes rockets as well. And Century ones too. Re-ignited the interest with my son a few years ago. Estes is still around. We even found and built my favorite model from when I was a kid: Der Red Max!

 

[StoneNYC]

I was into Estes model rockets. I'm glad I wasn't older then--that crowd was into protesting and carrying on, and getting into political movements, and being just generally weird. Glad I was too young for that. Glad I was also too young to go off to Viet Nam and getting shot at. Guess I was lucky. Back then the Apollo missions and my Instamatic 104 were all I cared about.

Yea you totally wouldn't have enjoyed those political movements, not you... Hehe

I did have Estes rockets as a kid too. Good times.

 

[Tom1956]

My first one was a Big Bertha. The parachute never came out. The tube was too big and long for the charge to blow off the nose cone and spit the 'chute out. It always came back down and stuck front first into the ground. Still remember the recommended engines for that model--B4-2, B6-4, and C6-5.
Still have my Honest John, Aerobee 300, Alpha, and Arcas rockets to this day.

 

[Roger Cole]

I was 17 in 1969--oh the girls...

I was six. I still threw rocks at them.

 

[ROL]

My first one was a Big Bertha….

Is the subject still girls?


BTW, in '69, it was the miniskirts.*








*…and here I promised myself I'd having nothing to do with this thread.

 

[Rick A]

It was the great looking long legged girls in mini skirts.

 

[Tom1956]

It was the great looking long legged girls in mini skirts.

You don't see that any more. It's a crying shame.

 

[MattKing]

I was 13 in 1969, and all the girls were taller than me.

By three years later, they must have shrunk

 

[tkamiya]

I was six. I still threw rocks at them.

I was four. I don't remember what girls looked like back then.

 

[StoneNYC]

I was 13 in 1969, and all the girls were taller than me.

By three years later, they must have shrunk

Combined with the apparently short skirts... You were a lucky kid

 

[BrianShaw]

You don't see that any more. It's a crying shame.

Come to LA if that is your interest. Plenty of that here.

 

[Rick A]

Come to LA if that is your interest. Plenty of that here.

Yeah, but most of them are guys in drag.

 

[ROL]

It was the great looking long legged girls in mini skirts.

You obviously have very discriminatory tastes. I remember snapping to attention and saluting at the slightest opportunity in those days, at that age. (...or was that a recent episode of Mad Men? :confused

 

[ROL]

You don't see that any more. It's a crying shame.

Come to LA if that is your interest. Plenty of that here.

Yeah, but most of them are guys in drag.

Errh… that would be the Crying Game. Rick, you've got to extend your current social group outside of West Hollywood. OTOH, I now believe I have a better handle on your "discriminatory" tastes.

 

[Rick A]

Never been to west hollywierd, but my cousin (who is in fact a drag queen) lives there.

 

[Tom1956]

Come to LA if that is your interest. Plenty of that here.

Thanks for the invite Brian, but I don't think California is any place for me.

 

[Richard S. (rich815)]

Thanks for the invite Brian, but I don't think California is any place for me.

The entire state?

 

[StoneNYC]

The entire state?

You should probably just agree that you don't want Tom in California hahaha maybe he should move to "Jefferson" though, he might like it there. (This is a "new state" sort of haha, oh you Cali-Organians...).

 

[Tom1956]

The entire state?

I think I should hold my tongue on the subject. I don't want any emails from Sean. I'm sure there's some good people in California, as would be expected of most any place.