I still use film. When I have it developed I have them scanned to a CD. The resolution is probably lower than if I used digital but I have the photographs saved on three media. I may switch to a higher quality film or ISO200 film so that it is not as grainy. I also use a Pentax K1000 camera that is older than me.
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CopCarSS Interestingly, Kodak ruled the digital market early on.
Interestingly, Kodak ruled the digital market early on.
And Kodak has some very fundamental patents on digital imaging. Two examples: the way the two green, one red and one blue pixels are used; having about two to three pictures worth of RAM, and using that to store raw data while the camera processor converts that into JPEG's.
Also remember that Kodak sells a lot of X-ray film.
- Erik
I still shoot slides, when Fuji stops making slides, I will be done shooting.
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Yeah, I'm still one of those dinosaurs still using film. Why? 'Cause it's FUN! I love the looks I get from people when I pull out my Argus C-3, or my Kodak Pony, or one of my antique 35mm cameras. Those oldies'll still sing if you treat them right. Mind you, I'm not shooting photos all the time, just on occasion or when the mood strikes me. I DO use a DVD camera now when I want to shoot movies. I used to shoot 16mm movies but the film and processing just got too expensive.
ModelcarSuch an old company, and seems they couldn't see the transition coming quick enough to prepare products for the market.
Interestingly, Kodak ruled the digital market early on. If you were shooting digital before 2001, you were either doing so with something with webcam resolution or a(n expensive) Kodak digital camera based on a Canon or Nikon film body.
Unfortunately, in the years since (and before -- the whole APS fiasco comes to mind), there's been mistake after mistake by Kodak. It's not that they haven't been trying. It's been misreads of the market, poor execution of good ideas, inability to fully commit to the future because present sales models could have been jeopardized, and really bad decisions by the MBA crowd that ran the company.
I really hope that the film division can survive to be spun off somehow. There are true gems there that no one else makes. Classic emulsions like Tri-X as well as really tremendous new films like Portra and Ektar. The problem for the film division if they do get spun off will be learning to do everything smaller. Kodak is set up to make a LOT of film. Doing small batches isn't something that they're set up to do. And with Hollywood moving towards digital more and more every year (3D movies have really pushed this faster than it would have been otherwise) film's last true stronghold gives less and less business every year. If the film division is to survive, it will need to adapt to the niche market that film photography is becoming. It's a strong niche to be sure...but a niche none-the-less.
-ChrisWest Chicago, ILChristopher May Fine Art Photography"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration." ~Ansel Adams
Still have a Canon EOS Elan7e with a 28 - 200 lens in my camera drawer, and it hasn't been touched in at least 2 years....Even have a good roll of B&W filim, I never opened, and used....What a waste.
And today we hear the word of Bankrupcy filed by Kodak....What a shame. Such an old company, and seems they couldn't see the transition coming quick enough to prepare products for the market.
Quentin
I don't understand why the camera has to REfocus when I press the shutter button. It is displaying the image on the screen on the back and IT is ALREADY in-focus. Pressing the button should be nothing more that capturing the image ALREADY on the screen.
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I still shoot slides - Fuji is no substitute for Kodachrome, but I still enjoy trading slides and all those other great habits gathered from a lifetime of shooting and collecting slides. Art
My auto-focus film camera has the same delay as it has to focus then fire the shutter - the half down to lock the focus trick works.
My cheapie digital, when in flash mode, has a delay to minimize 'red eye' as it fires a partial flash before firing the flash that takes the picture....that really drives me crazy.
Paul of Covington That shutter delay drives me crazy, too, but I'm not using a very expensive digital camera. Can anyone give me a ballpark figure for minimum bucks for an immediate shutter response?
That shutter delay drives me crazy, too, but I'm not using a very expensive digital camera. Can anyone give me a ballpark figure for minimum bucks for an immediate shutter response?
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With most Digital camers a delay between pushing the Shutter Button and the picture being taken is caused by the Lens Focusing and the Exposure being adjusted. If you are moving the camera it's almost continuous (tracking).
BUT ! With most Cameras you can aim where you want to shoot, press the Shutter Button half way down to lock in the values and hold the button there until your ready and push it the rest of the way. It will take practice. It's one inconvenience of Digtal, but then again, you never wind the film, the Memory Card can take several hundred photos (no film to carry), and you can change the ISO value at will to control night and time exposures.
Don U. TCA 73-5735
Have you tried the "holding the shutter button down halfway trick" I forces the camera to focus and set the exposure. Then when you press it the rest of the way, it only has to actuate the shutter. Gets rid of almost all the lag. The trick it to pick the spot you want in focus so that when the train wanders into the frame, it's in focus.
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
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When doing my Christmas shopping I made passes through several Camera stores - where in the past, behind the cash register there would be a rack with all the forms of film the store was selling - Kodak, Agfa, Fuji etc ... the rack was still there, but it was only populated by Fuji and that only occupied 1/8 of the rack or less.
I still have my film cameras, but most of the shot I have taken recently have been with my cheapie digital....I can throw it in my pocket and it's available to quickie grab shots in seconds.
I'm still using film. The expense in converting to digital (new camera, memory sticks, reader, etc.) is a major barrier. It's also a lot cozier to relax in a comfy chair and go through photo albums looking at what you've shot over the years, back to 1969 in my case.
Time exposures measured in minutes send me to the closet for a film camera.
I shoot both. When I can find a digital back for this:
I'll probably go digital only. At the moment, there's a medium format digital back that comes close quality wise (the Phase One IQ180), but I don't have the $40-$50K needed for the system and I still can't control plane of focus and depth of field and as much as I can with an 8x10 camera:
Film has it's short-comings, too, though. High ISO work that wasn't even dreamable with film is now routine with digital. Horses for courses...
Photography has been one of my hobbies for the last 60 years. I have not used film for the last 10.
The name of the game is a box with a lens and a recording material. Get the best lens you can afford, get a box (camera) that will do what you want (point and shoot with auto focus and aperture control or a full manual operation or both), a burst feature lets you get a series of full resolution photos. 5 mega-pixel will give you a good 8X10 print, 8 mega-pixel equals Kodacolor, while 18 mega-pixel equals Kodachrome. Photographing in "RAW" makes it easy for publishing companies to convert your photos. Then you have "Photoshop" to process you prints, correct all your mistakes.
There is a reason Kodak has failed, lack of demand for film. They do make some very good cameras (in Japan) with a good lens.
I still drag out one of two Mamyia twin lenses on occasion. A negative sized larger than a thumbnail sized sensor is desirable at times.
I quit using film when Canon began producing SLRs that are nearly indistinguishable from their 35mm SLRs.
Kodak is not liquidating, it is reorganizing.
Dave
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I still use Fuji film. I feel more comfortable using my Minolta than I do the digital I have..... I can never get used to the delay it has after you push the shutter. Missed one too many things and said the heck with it.
Bill
With the bankrupcy of kodak, I got to wondering how many of us still us film to photograph trains. If you do use film, why do you stay with it?
George
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