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Ricardo Miranda

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Today I saw:
a Nikon FM, a Minolta SRT101, a Yashica-mat, a Canon AE-1, a Leica M6, a Polaroid 600 and a Nikkormat FT2.
These are the ones I remember and not counting with my Nikon EL2 and Nikkormat FT3 nor my friend's Leica M2.

Feel free to post below what film cameras did you see.
 
where you out and about on the streets? or in a camera shop? or looking through a magazine from 1974? or, or, or, where these "visions" in your head?
 
Ah! That's the best part: in the street, in London's Brick Lane. :smile:
And they were very much real cameras and being used.

Guy with SLR last month:
9-4-2015_022 by Ricardo Miranda, on Flickr
 
It might explain why Xmas, also from London, sees a range of analogue cameras as well. I haven't seen that many film cameras on the streets or any public space in 10 years. Let's hope that London is an omen for the future

pentaxuser
 
Alas, the only film cameras that I have seen for two years are a Yashicamat and FM2, one in the Blue Mountains near Sydney, the other in Adelaide. The pleasure of seeing a Yashicat being used was quickly tempered by a forest of selfie-sticks ):
 
Ricardo Miranda said:
Today I saw:
a Nikon FM, a Minolta SRT101, a Yashica-mat, a Canon AE-1, a Leica M6, a Polaroid 600 and a Nikkormat FT2.
These are the ones I remember and not counting with my Nikon EL2 and Nikkormat FT3 nor my friend's Leica M2.

Feel free to post below what film cameras did you see.
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Also in the same market same day.

OM1
OM10
Rolliflex
Fuji instax
Pentax K (probably K1000 only identified the rewind knob top)

The market has high people density so the range to camera can be less than one meter.

I only count the film cameras and these were to hand/neck strap there were others I did not identify like a FSU ERC, there were more than a dozen carried around, exclusive of Ricardos two, mine and stalls.

There was a street photo training running 25+ but they were all digital.

Two film camera stalls, one offering year warranty...

Brick Ln is exceptional cause it is all trendies, singles meet up, Bangladesh ethnic curry shops, rag trade.

I used about six off cassettes of xx and HP5+.
 
At the final air show of this year, what appeared to be a Pentax K1000 with a physically short appearing lens, hanging around the neck of an older fellow. Didn't actually see him use it, though.

And even better at the same show, a youngish fellow (maybe late 20s, which qualifies as youngish for me these days) in the midst of an intense three-way courtship between himself, his black M-series Leica, and the sensuous curves of an up-close vintage bomber propeller.

Sorry, I don't know the Leica line well enough to distinguish models from afar. But I did see a red dot, if that helps. His significant other was standing off to one side under the wing with her arms folded... waiting... watching... unsmiling.

:unsure:

Ken
 
This weekend I saw a guy with a Nikon F2A and a 105/2.5 and another guy with a Leica. Both in their early twenties.
 
pentaxuser said:
It might explain why Xmas, also from London, sees a range of analogue cameras as well. I haven't seen that many film cameras on the streets or any public space in 10 years. Let's hope that London is an omen for the future

pentaxuser
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When I'm up on Manchester centre or Brum you might see one all day.
But my chum from Man said you would never have seen one in 1970 the trend of taking street photos is new fangled.

And that is true cameras were only used by tourists, press or wedding way back then.

I packed a Leica IIf and collapsible in pocket so would have been invisible.

The London UK street markets are full of tourists some of the normal ladies have a dvideo, dstill, and instant in deep tote bags and iPhone superglued to ear...

Our police on detecting a camera pointed at them, ham up like keystone cops.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Cops
 
Xmas said:
Also in the same market same day.

OM1
OM10
Rolliflex
Fuji instax
Pentax K (probably K1000 only identified the rewind knob top)

The market has high people density so the range to camera can be less than one meter.

I only count the film cameras and these were to hand/neck strap there were others I did not identify like a FSU ERC, there were more than a dozen carried around, exclusive of Ricardos two, mine and stalls.

There was a street photo training running 25+ but they were all digital.

Two film camera stalls, one offering year warranty...

Brick Ln is exceptional cause it is all trendies, singles meet up, Bangladesh ethnic curry shops, rag trade.

I used about six off cassettes of xx and HP5+.
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Yeap, I used 1 Fomapan 200, 2 K400 and 2 Agfaphoto Vista 200.

I forgot I saw a young man with an Oly OM40.

We see many times young students with what some here consider lowly models, but they are the bread and butter of many young people.

But, sometimes we see something a bit out of ordinary like on Saturday the Japanese girl with a Canon F-1 and a 55mm /1.2L. She did take portraits of us with our film cameras.

It is as Noel said: the Eastend is a melting pot of tourists, photo students, photo enthusiast, pros with digi, not so pros with digi, a street market, a trendy place, etc. It is a bit of everything for everyone.
We know and speak with several digi people who actively ask questions about photography.
 
Hi Ricardo,

Interesting, rare down my way to see film cameras, although medium formats are sometimes spotted to capture our landscape.

How many of these cameras get used or are they fashion accessories.

Whatever reason it's still good to see film on the street.
 
silver kowa 66 with a beautiful silver 150mm lens at the beach last week.
 
i was at a state fair this weekend,
lots of people with cameras, i saw that ,
but they did not use silver ..

:sad:
 
The most delicious irony in this little thread is that posters are including pictures of film camera carrying photographers.

How is that ironic?

Because they are apparently relying upon the provenance that is inherent in the non-abstracted emulsion/negative system as proof that these other film camera carrying photographers really did exist in the wild as you see them portrayed.

If, on the other hand, these posted pictures are not themselves film-based, then the broken chain of provenance that is the unavoidable result of software abstracted images means that the pictures cannot be completely trusted to convey the reality they seem to imply.

Film always records spontaneously (and thus authentically) by direct application of the laws of nature, without any further human input or guidance required after the shutter is opened. Digital assembles images after the shutter is opened by using software prewritten by humans, and thus is directly dependent upon human input and guidance for its eventual form. Big difference.

This is why with film one can grin and credibly state...

Pics or it didn't happen!

:wink:

Ken
 
Ricardo Miranda said:
It is the younger generations that are embracing film while the silver grey are "trying to be modern".
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I was talking to my father last weekend. He's 77 years old and used to be a pro photographer, specialized in aerial photography. My Hasselblad 500C/M was his workhorse for more than a decade. He retired from photography some 20 years ago.

Well, I told him: "you have to talk one of your old photographer friends into selling me a large format camera for cheap".

He replied: "son, are you really sure it's worth investing money on this?"

I think this illustrates your point, Ricardo.


Cheers,
Flavio
 
So I'm at my yearly eye exam early this morning. No other patients are in the office. Unprompted the receptionist starts chatting about her younger sister who showed up at a family gathering with a Polaroid instant camera. She tells me her sister just absolutely loves the thing. Gets her film online from Impossible Project and thinks the cost is "very reasonable".

Note the irony here. She's telling me this story. Not the other way around. It's role reversal.

What the heck is going on here???

:tongue:

Ken
 
I think I've seen only 2 or 3 film cameras in the last 2 years.
 
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