For youse guys over 70

Weegee said:

I was in my save some short time ago and pulled out some of my favorite film cameras. ... Shooting primarily slides, I needed exposure to be + or - 1/3 of a stop.

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Ahh, the days of transparency film. Luckily most of my shooting was done in a studio where you could control and modify the light. Depending on the set I used a Sekonic incident light meter or a Pentax spot to get the exposure. I also remember underexposing 1/3 and pushing 1/2 to increase the saturation of colors.

When I was out and about, I lugged around a Nikon F3 HP and a bevy of primes, shooting Fujichrome 100 Pro-D. I found the meter to be pretty accurate but would still bracket most shots.

Gone for Good said:

Now, I'm all in on digital and I've gone back to Olympus once more.

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Same here switched to MFT back in 2009 first to Panasonic and now Olympus for the reasons you stated.

I'm not over 70 but I have sold all of those cameras.

Not sure that I have ever compared one with the other but all had mostly happy users .

The OM4 had some problems but I think they were all addressed in the T version.

(not sure that many over 70 would use YOUSE ...)

I'm genuinely puzzled by your belief that only 'older' folk are shooting (or even aware of) film? This isn't the first thread you've started along these lines.

You know that plenty of people of all ages are shooting film these days yeah? I even know a 17 year old shooting with an OM4Ti...

tassienick said:

I'm genuinely puzzled by your belief that only 'older' folk are shooting (or even aware of) film? This isn't the first thread you've started along these lines.

You know that plenty of people of all ages are shooting film these days yeah? I even know a 17 year old shooting with an OM4Ti...

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WOW you took it personally. Good JOB

Hey, wait, I'm WAY under 70 and have something to contribute! (I think a large chunk of film shooters are GenX-or-so-ers like me.)

I worked for a car mag in the UK and had access to all the free film I wanted... but it was Fujichrome 100 and Velvia. I shot it with my Pentax KX (manual-only, centerweighted meter with CdS cells) and MG (auto-only, CW with GPD cells) and never had a problem.

Matter of fact, one of the MG's parlor tricks was that while it was only supposed to shoot a max of 1 second, it would accurately meter shots of 20, 30 seconds or more. I did a LOT of crazy long-exposure stuff (combo of free slide film and not getting off work 'til after dark) and the MG was reliable enough that I would dry-fire it to get a baseline, then use the KX to bracket in 1 to 5 sec increments. Here's one such shot.

Later I used my Rebel 2000 for slides and it was pretty accurate as well.. Here, here, here. (I'm 85% sure those were shot on the Rebel, otherwise it was one of my Pentaxes.)

My point, if I have one... One does need to nail the exposure for slides, but it isn't *that* hard. Matrix meters are all well and good, as are spots, but I think if one has a camera with an unsophisticated center-weighted meter and knows when to believe it and when it's being fooled, slides aren't *that* tricky.

I'd love to try again, but slide film has gone crazy, and with scanning, one may as well shoot negatives.

Aaron

johnapp said:

tassienick said:

I'm genuinely puzzled by your belief that only 'older' folk are shooting (or even aware of) film? This isn't the first thread you've started along these lines.

You know that plenty of people of all ages are shooting film these days yeah? I even know a 17 year old shooting with an OM4Ti...

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WOW you took it personally. Good JOB

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Personally? Nah mate. Just puzzled.

Weegee said:

Shooting primarily slides, I needed exposure to be + or - 1/3 of a stop. I think the best was eventually the Olympus with it's sophisticated modes of metering. Any other opinions?

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Almost all my thousands of film shots were on Kodachrome. I was quite happy with my X-series Minoltas that offer 'final check' metering. It operates not only at full aperture, but also a second time as the lens is stopping down. Very accurate and reliable.

My Nikon FG does the "final check" thing. I read an old PopPhoto review that said it was actually a kludge of sorts. The camera has a Program mode that works with older Nikon lenses. IIRC, because the throw of the aperture lever is so short, it's hard to place it accurately -- so once the lens is stopped down, the camera takes another meter reading to figure out how much light is actually coming through the lens and tweak the shutter timing accordingly.

Aaron

I shoot only film so always drawn to folks carrying film cameras. The last two people I've seen carrying cameras have been kids in their 20s with Nikons FEs (one of my favs, too). We had nice conversations each time.

tassienick said:

I'm genuinely puzzled by your belief that only 'older' folk are shooting (or even aware of) film? This isn't the first thread you've started along these lines.

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I think it’s “used to shoot film, now shoots digital”, or at least that’s how I read the OP. I think the people shooting film now are slanted towards sub-30 yr old rather than over-70 yr old.

tassienick said:

You know that plenty of people of all ages are shooting film these days yeah? I even know a 17 year old shooting with an OM4Ti...

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......to get my composition and exposures right. 2-1/4.....4 x 5 and 8 x 10.

tassienick said:

johnapp said:

tassienick said:

I'm genuinely puzzled by your belief that only 'older' folk are shooting (or even aware of) film? This isn't the first thread you've started along these lines.

You know that plenty of people of all ages are shooting film these days yeah? I even know a 17 year old shooting with an OM4Ti...

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WOW you took it personally. Good JOB

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Personally? Nah mate. Just puzzled.

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There are some days I feel over 70. Does that count?

I'm a couple of decades away from 70 but shoot 90% film and mostly Olympus with 3x OM's and 2x 35 rangefinders (plus a Nikon F5).

An E-PL8 and old XZ-1 are my digital backup but hardly used, in fact today I went for a beach stroll this morning enjoying the stormy weather with a roll of Portra400 and have just finished scanning the negatives - and a quick scan of DP Review forums..

Spend much of my time in APAC and for sure I can tell you there are penty of film users there - of all ages!

Overrank said:

I think the people shooting film now are slanted towards sub-30 yr old rather than over-70 yr old.

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Judging from most of the posts I read here in DPR and in Photrio, I'd have to concur - seems the younger crowd is more responsible for the resurgence of shooting film than us old geezers in our 50's and older. However, I do wonder what the age slant is for those of us still doing our own wet darkroom printing...

Mike

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Michael Firstlight said:

However, I do wonder what the age slant is for those of us still doing our own wet darkroom printing...
Mike

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For sure. I’m mid-30s are have just never had the opportunity to learn darkroom printing. By the time I went through high school their physical darkroom was still there but the course to use it was defunct. By the time I was in college (17-18yo) the room has been converted to …something.

I’d love to learn printing, but opportunities to do so are limited.

aenoether said:

tassienick said:

johnapp said:

tassienick said:

I'm genuinely puzzled by your belief that only 'older' folk are shooting (or even aware of) film? This isn't the first thread you've started along these lines.

You know that plenty of people of all ages are shooting film these days yeah? I even know a 17 year old shooting with an OM4Ti...

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WOW you took it personally. Good JOB

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Personally? Nah mate. Just puzzled.

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There are some days I feel over 70. Does that count?

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Thumbs UP

.....back in the 1930s you would still be going around in a horse and buggy!

Michael Firstlight said:

However, I do wonder what the age slant is for those of us still doing our own wet darkroom printing...

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Older, I'm sure -- us GenX-ers can't afford houses with space for a full-on darkroom. If I wasn't an apartment-dweller, I'd be wet-printing.

Aaron

I don't know why but I'm still holding on to my Polaroid back for my 4x5 camera.