Is there any use for film cameras anymore

Don Stauffer in Minnesota wrote:
> On Mar 13, 11:45 pm, Chris W <1qaz... RemoveThis @cox.net> wrote:
>> Since I will soon have the D300 in hand, the question becomes what do I
>> do with my Nikon N90s? Is there any application where it is handy to
>> use film over digital?
>>
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> We just hauled out all of our old cameras to decide what to do with
> older ones. Some are classics- collector's items so we will save
> those just as collectables.
>
> The only film camera I actually intend to use is an old Kodak Stereo
> camera. I have a negative scanner attachment for my scanner, so can
> scan the developed film and set up the cards on the computer. The
> alternative if I want to take 3D pics again is to buy two cheaper
> digitals and mount them side-by-side with some sort of a gadget to
> depress both shutters simultaneously.


There are some types of competitions (art shows) where the submission
will only be accepted as slides. Thats what I use my old camera for.

I suspect at sometime even these situation will be converted to digital
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"ray" <ray.DeleteThis@zianet.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:03:00 -0400, Shawn Hirn wrote:
>
>> In article <FpnCj.32766$y05.1512@newsfe22.lga>,
>> Chris W <1qazse4.DeleteThis@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Since I will soon have the D300 in hand, the question becomes what do I
>>> do with my Nikon N90s? Is there any application where it is handy to
>>> use film over digital?
>>
>> Sell it on eBay.
>
> If there is no longer any use for it, who would buy it?

There may still be a demand for students -- although they may not need or
want to pay a lot. My kids do photography at school, no digital, manual SLR,
black and white only, all processed in the school darkroom. Pretty much the
way I started, so for me there's no question of relevence -- they learn to
wrestle with light the same way we all did. In their second year (I'm
talking 17 year-olds here) they get into digital through scanning their
prints, and their final portfolio can include as much digital manipulation
as they want, although by then they have a good grounding in composition and
technique. The results are amazing.
 >> Stay informed about: Is there any use for film cameras anymore 

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:01:31 +0000, Harry Poster wrote:

> On 14 Mar 2008 20:35:09 GMT, ray <ray.DeleteThis@zianet.com> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:11:07 +0000, Harry Poster wrote:
>>
>>> On 14 Mar 2008 16:30:36 GMT, ray <ray.DeleteThis@zianet.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:45:32 -0500, Chris W wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Since I will soon have the D300 in hand, the question becomes what
>>>>> do I do with my Nikon N90s? Is there any application where it is
>>>>> handy to use film over digital?
>>>>
>>>>Yes. Each medium has it's advantages.
>>>
>>> Wow. What a revelation.
>>>
>>> I'll be sure to read your future posts for more gems like this.
>>>
>>> And... IT'S means IT IS.
>>>
>>> ... has it is advantages?
>>
>>Very well, does the term 'anal retentive' ring a bell?
>
> How about "illiterate"?

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In message
<47da58bc$0$19261$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au>, Doug
Jewell <ask.RemoveThis@and.maybe.ill.tell.you> writes
>Chris W wrote:
>> Since I will soon have the D300 in hand, the question becomes what do
>>I do with my Nikon N90s? Is there any application where it is handy
>>to use film over digital?

>Long Exposure - although film has reciprocity issues, it doesn't suffer
>from noise in long exposures. Digital noise can be reduced with
>dark-frame subtraction, but that doubles your exposure time, so reduces
>the number of shots you can get in a session.

But you can get digital cameras with active cooling that are designed
for long exposures and they will completely blow away film. Exposures up
to a few hours are possible

Film has a blind wavelength spot in the green (safelight colour) which
is why old slide photographs of astronomical nebulae were always red,
pink and blue despite the brightest ones looking visually green.
>
>Ultra Wide Angle (If you already have a sub 20mm lens, and you don't do
>a lot of ultrawide angle, scanning 35mm frames is a lot cheaper than
>buying an ultrawide lens for DX format, or buying a full-frame DSLR -
>my Film camera pretty much has an 18mm lens on it full-time now)

No argument there at all. Especially for the fisheye lenses.
>
>Art - I love the super-grainy look that Kodak 3200 B&W gives.
>
>Some subjects are also rendered nicer IMO on film - for example Velvia
>gives remarkable saturation, but still manages to capture subtle tone
>differences. Things like sunsets, flowers, machinery, IMO benefit from
>the Velvia treatment. Also, personally, I prefer the way B&W films
>render images vs digital B&W.
>
>I still shoot film, but a lot less than I used to.

I mostly use film to produce slides for lecturers who are presenting
material in places that do not possess a digital projector.

Regards,
--
Martin Brown

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