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Do you still use film and in what format?

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I have a 35mm SLR loaded with exclusively B&W film. It's just a personal preference thing. It gets very little use, but its fun having the second body around.
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35mm, both full frame and sliced for minox handloads.
120 in 645 and 67.... i want a 617 eventually.
45 sheetfilm
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Haven't touched my film SLRs for years, but I still use my Cambo Wide, Mamiya Universal, and a Zorki with a 12mm Voigtlander and Tech Pan. I keep meaning to haul out the big Linhof Color, but it's been a while.

Haven't shot 35mm other than Tech Pan for a couple of years... wait, except a single roll of Delta 3200 I shot when I snuck another Zorki into a show I couldn't get the digital into. A Zorki with no lens looks like a wallet in your back pocket. The lens was taped to my leg. For some reason they weren't wanding.
 
For the first time in a year or more, I decided to give the Leica M3 a spin with a roll of Tri-X.

Just snapshots of my baby, nothing crazy.

I take the roll to Adorama which is a few blocks from my work and find out they don't process Black and White anymore. Doh!

And there is no way in heck I am going to bring the roll to the overpriced Duggal across the street.

Sigh...
Javid said:
I still use 35mm and medium format (6 x 6) print film.
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As a hobbiest, I shoot 35mm colour kodachromes or Fuji provia slides (Nikkormat, Leicolta, Contax TVS III), and for digital, E-1 and Samsung NV7. Colour slides are my hedge against digital disaster, even though I have files stored on two backup hard-drives, and some on CDR disks.

I will even carry both types of cameras at the same time so I can compare results.

In three years I will likely get a the next E-x camera or a D-200.

I would love to get a medium format Mamiya 7II (is that 6x7cm?), but I love being married more....

Angular Mo.
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I still use 4, 35 mm Cameras and scan the film to digital as well as using 3 digitals. Different strokes..........

' You don't have to have the best of everything to get the best out of what you do have'.
 
I find myself going back to film more often than I ever thought I would. Usually it's Kodachrome 64 or Ilford XP2. Closed down my darkroom a few years ago, but have access to a top notch group darkroom that is now little used by the members of the photo group I belong to in Santa Barbara. I shoot digital with a marvelous little Canon Powershot S80, having given my digital Rebel to my son last year.

I also sold off my large and medium format gear but kept several 35mm cameras when the digital bug bit seven years ago. Now have a Nikon FA with a complement of good manual focus Nikon glass, a tiny Rollei Prego Micron, a 1936 vintage Leica III with 50mm Leica and Bessa lenses, a 1955 Contaflex I fixed lens reflex (45mm), which was my workhorse camera for many years. Hard to beat the Tessar lens design and Zeiss quality, even before the advent of multi-coatings.

Going back to film in periods when the mood strikes me, I find I enjoy it and will probably never abandon it altogether. But must admit the speed, low operating cost and the availability of internet picture sharing via Ophoto and Yahoo are wonderful.
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It won't help with your current film but if you fancy shooting some B&W film again try Ilfords XP2. It's a black and white film but based on colour technology, it's the standard C41 colour process the same as colour neg. The prints will be on colour paper though and are usually sepia but the tone can vary. Take the box and film leaflet with you, some high street processors will take one look, see black and white and refuse to process it.
 
I still photograph with several Canon FD series cameras and lenses. I am searching for a new digital (sold my Kodak 14n and lenses) and have been reviewing many photographers galleries on the web. My first observation is : 99% of all the photo's regardless of camera origin, all look vastly overprocessed and no longer look like photo's but look like Dime Store oversaturated pictures you see in picture frames they are selling.
Not all, but a large majority to me don't even look like photo's?

' You don't have to have the best of everything to get the best out of what you do have'.
 
Yes, I have my DSLR, but I really get my joy outta tinkering around with my cheap manual focus Nikon FM-10 with a 50mm f1.8 and Kodak Tri-X B and White Film. I get to develope it myself too, so it adds to the experience.

I take both out whenever I shoot for anyone, or even just when I am screwing around. I don't why, but it just seems like digital just loses something in translation, becuase nine times out of ten my favorite image is in the FM-10.

Basically I am trying to say yeah go with technology, but when you goes back to basics, it can be tremendously rewarding.
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I still "play" with film as I love working in the darkroom. I collect vintage cameras and like to use them. I use a 1975 model Mamiya M645 and a 1948 Speed graphic 4x5 for night shots. I'm about to start on another degree and the studio work is mostly building a portfollio. I plan on doing some 645 cross-processing and maybe some 4x5 as well...just for something different.
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I couldn't imagine a trip without 35mm Kodakchrome 64.During holidays I'll always shoout at least couple of rolls of this diapositive film and sometimes the Velvia as well.But digicam is the main workhorse for me these days.
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Just bought a used Canon EOS 1 Film with Power Grip for a backup to my DSLR, Can't afford another DSLR body at present. So I'll bring a few rolls of HD ISO 400 Kodak or Fuji, Just in case I need it.

Though this tread may just push me to take out my 1 series film for a day in the park and some Illford B&W Or Fuji Color....For old time sake :-)
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Peter :-)



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