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Do you still shoot film ?

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Hi Colin!

Sure, I still shoot films!
I regularly use two "modern" cameras: a Leica MP and a Canon EOS3. I don't have any numerics, except to post photos of my Russian analogic ones on the forum! Big smile

I have always a third camera in use: a Russian one of my collection, generally a Fed S. Or my TSVVS lately (I posted two photos from it).

Amitiés. Jacques.
PS: Colin, you never sleep or the sun always shines on Australia?Cool

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Yes I still shoot film too. Mostly with my Zorki 6, a true companion for me. I shoot many 6x6 films lately too. I also started to use slide film instead of regular color print film. It's also a relaxed way of taking photo's. Love having a good walk in the autumn times taking a camera with you, taking pictures in a relaxed way. Love looking forward when they process or come back from the lab!

Although I have a Canon EOS 350 too now, but with an M42 adapter and several Russian and East German lenses! Couldn't get used to autofocus, so I decided to keep things in hand. Best of both I would say.
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Originally posted by Valkir1987

Love having a good walk in the autumn times taking a camera with you, taking pictures in a relaxed way. Love looking forward when they process or come back from the labo



My thoughts really !
Yes I still shoot film with Zorki 3m, 4k, Kiev 4a, the great Iskra, Leica M6 and Japanese SLR (Minolta x700 and Canon A1) :)
Jean
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Been using it for so many years.. and... there is still something rather nice using film re 6X6 still use it .. just one problem I purchase 10 roll of Fomapan 200.. and it was the bad batch .. covered in tram lines.
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Hello Colin,

I still shoot films with Agfa-Isolette and Moskva-5 (6x9, 6x6) parallel to my digi Canon-30d,
and I try generally to shoot one film with any new soviet camera, that comes into my collection Smile

Regards, Alexander
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Yes, 35mm, 120 and 5x4. With 35mm I have lots of Pentax SLRs, and then I have a FED2 and a Zorkii 4. I also have a Lubitel 2 and a Horizont (early version from 1971). I shoot digital too, although more and more I am using digital for work and film for fun.

K.
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Kris,

I also have a lot of Pentax film cameras and sometimes I put a roll in it or in one of my Zorkis. The Zorki 4K with J-8 is a good camera for taking pictures. I have several rolls of film in the refrigerator, some 120 films too that are used with a Pentax 645 (a nice camera!). And a bottle of Rodinal waits for them :-)

But the most pictures I shoot digital. Today I think that digital is the better solution, my Pentax K-5 is really great, sometimes I wonder what it can display in the deep shadows and the highlights. The Sony sensor in it is the best I've seen until now.

Ulrich

http://fotos.cconin.de
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Ulrich,

from the point of view of image quality and all that, the K5 is the way to go, but I just don't get the same pleasure out of the process as I do when using my LX, or my FED2, or my Lubitel 2, or my Horseman 5x4... It is purely a personal, psychological, thing but as I am an amateur and I take photographs to relax, unwind and generally get away from it all, I might as well do what I enjoy. My only regret is that I don't have a darkroom to print them myself. It is, in part, because I use a computer so much for both work and play that I like using equipment with the minimum of automation. I am not one of those proselytizers attempting to convert everyone back to using film, I'm just a great believer in doing what one enjoys.

Best wishes, Kris.

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