I frequent digital forums as well as APUG, and my recent experience is that there is no slackening in people's appetite for "better cameras", more pixels, sharper lenses, higher ISOs, and so on. Discussions about the two or three recent new "full frame" digital cameras absolutely dominate the scene. (Capitalism marches on, I suppose)
You no longer have to leave disposable cameras on the table at a wedding receptions...
Sure you do, if you want film pictures! About 6 months ago my sister-in-law got married. They hired a professional photographer, who brought a DSLR with one of those long lenses that screams "pro photographer." There were several others there shooting pictures with DSLRs and even digital P&S. I was the only one shooting film. Because I was shooting film, I decided to also shoot B&W, since everyone else was shooting color. I loaded up a roll of Tri-X, and her wedding present from me was 37 B&W pictures of her wedding and reception, negatives, and a lab scan of the negatives on CD. She really liked that these were B&W and so different from what everyone else was doing.
Ilford has a line of disposable cameras loaded with HP5+ and XP2 Super. You can get them from B&H for about a ten-spot.
Ohhhh, who gives a shit. Let's just talk about photography.
Sure you do, if you want film pictures! About 6 months ago my sister-in-law got married. They hired a professional photographer, who brought a DSLR with one of those long lenses that screams "pro photographer." There were several others there shooting pictures with DSLRs and even digital P&S. I was the only one shooting film. Because I was shooting film, I decided to also shoot B&W, since everyone else was shooting color. I loaded up a roll of Tri-X, and her wedding present from me was 37 B&W pictures of her wedding and reception, negatives, and a lab scan of the negatives on CD. She really liked that these were B&W and so different from what everyone else was doing.
Ilford has a line of disposable cameras loaded with HP5+ and XP2 Super. You can get them from B&H for about a ten-spot.
sounds good to me ..
and when the solar flare screws everything up
my k1000 will be worth thousands ...
i can't even imagine how much my crappy box cameras will be worht .
I "ain't got no" cellphone. I live dangerously. Could break down in my truck in the middle of the countryside at night and be genuinely stuck. Just like the old days.
Same here. Don't have one, don't want one, not going to get one.
Ken vowed right then and there that he would NEVER subject himself to the indignities of being chained to one of those damned things
Same here. Don't have one, don't want one, not going to get one.
Steve.
Ditto computers. Offering boundless freedom for the price of your soul. Or at least your time. Voluntary enslavement to the hungry cursor. I'm off to shoot some film.They seem to be remote control devices for humans.
Steve.
Ditto computers. Offering boundless freedom for the price of your soul. Or at least your time. Voluntary enslavement to the hungry cursor. I'm off to shoot some film.
Same here as well.
It's a lifestyle choice made many years ago in an airport bathroom after a long flight. As Ken was washing up he was treated to the hideous spectacle of a businessman sitting in one of the public stalls, taking care of business while he was taking care of business. The fellow literally closed a business deal over his cell phone with his pants down around his ankles.
You will never know how fervently Ken wanted to step into the adjoining stall and flush one of those very loud toilets. God would have then worked His business magic in mysterious ways for sure.
Ken vowed right then and there that he would NEVER subject himself to the indignities of being chained to one of those damned things. And decades later, he still hasn't.
Because of that decision, Ken has successfully evolved into the full and complete human being that God intended for him to become, and not some weak-at-the-knees whiner who can't decide which foot to place in front of the other without consulting a 3-inch screen every 5 seconds. And God forbid that whiner tries to lay his hands on some Wrigleys at the same time...
(Holy cow. Ken's on a roll tonight. Did he just write all of that? Yikes. Here comes the tar and pitchfork mobs. Better log off before he finds himself checking out birdfeeders up close from the wrong end of a rope.)
:eek:
Ken
It's a lifestyle choice made many years ago in an airport bathroom after a long flight.
As Ken was washing up he was treated to the hideous spectacle of a businessman sitting in one of the public stalls, taking care of business while he was taking care of business. The fellow literally closed a business deal over his cell phone with his pants down around his ankles.
Ken Nadvornick;1567278(Holy cow. Ken's on a roll tonight....)[/QUOTE said:Oh, nice rant!
Agreed! I feel that much freer when I go develop my film vs seeing it on the screen.
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Also, when Ken is speaking in third person, what happens to the first person Ken? Does he just fall to the floor like a ragdoll?
An obviously sound environment for making lifestyle choices!
This thread has gotten sort of weird.
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