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Anyone Still Use a Film Camera for Model Photography?
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I still use a lot of film. With three Nikon bodies and a pot full of lenses, I don't have much choice. Mostly, I shoot slides and find that my Canon A620 won't quite match the slides for quality, even though the Canon is 7.1 megs. The other problem is that the Canon only has the anemic, built-in flash. <br /> <br />Also, I must disagree that the market for film is dead. Maybe it is dead at Wally-Mart, but I never used their processing (or other drugstore processing) anyway. It was too awful to think about with scratched negatives, slides cut in the wrong places, etc. With slides, I use a local camera store and get a roll of 36 developed for about $7.00 (about 20 cents per slide, mounted). That is a bit less than the cost of the paper and ink that I need for my Canon photo printer. That costs $30.00 for enough stuff to do 108 4 by 6 prints. That is about 28 cents per print. Plus, the little printer will sometimes not make a good print. The whole digital versus film debate is a bit like the old argument in the mid-Nineteenth Century over whether or not photography would eliminate painting. <br /> <br />I would buy a digital body that can use my existing lenses, but the one I want costs $1700 bucks, and that is a lot of model railroad equipment, even at today's prices. <br /> <br />
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