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Mike_rgb
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Username: Mike_rgb
Post Number: 32
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 04:55 pm: | 
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Hi all
You can still go to wally World, Sams & all the 1 hour pull and scratch Drug stores. However the one great lab next to Pennys has closed. ( Owner sold out )
He did not do Slides & true B&W there, but drop them off & they did them in Ashville by next day or 2.
I have not called the new owner yet because he did not decide how he was going Digi or Film or both. I don't hunt any longer however when I did it was a Recurve, I used it for 24 years. I watched the parts including feathered arrows & reurve strings & parts dry up. A machine that took a machine to restring it's self swept the land. Not so different from the Digis displacing the Film Cameras & parts.
Is there a point to my story? Perhaps. Today Recurves are being made again by Companies who once said Compounds had buried the Long/Recurve Bows. Poppy Cock far from it, a small but ever growing number of Bow shooters began to discover the Long & Recurve Bows again.
Now try to buy either Long or Recurve & you will find a long line & don't forget to bring plenty of $$.
My hope & dream is see a resurgence in film use despite the road spikes that seem to keep comming at us.
I spent 3 years learning my Nikons, Zeiss Ikon Contessa & print film. My plans for this season was to learn true B&W & Slide film. I have been buying new & like new Slide making equipment. Two like new projectors & a Silver Screen a School sold for $10.00 very good & large.
Now is time for what they call a reality check. Should I sell that custom Recurve that has never been shot? I hurt my back before I had a chance to pull it, well another time another story. Should I just admit it? If
I choose to use film & I do. Must I also, choose to develop my own Film now & for as long as I need to?
All & any suggestions welcome
Mike |
Dgillette4
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Username: Dgillette4
Post Number: 160
Registered: 04-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 05:21 pm: |
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Mike: I believe film is here to stay, as long as I live, Local labs may disappear but you can always do it yourself or send it out to a lab like Free style etc. There is a web site dealing just with this situation and that is called APUG or analog photo something or other. The pros still use film and digital both. I do repairs and feel that in the future the value of the equipment will appreciate. And it's just more fun for me to use film. What with the average life of a digital camera of 4 to 6 years why buy one? I worked with electronics before I retired and believe me equipment there is very fickle and goes obsolete fast. Look at the latest thing coming (HD TV) It will make many tv,s obsolete and for what , A shot in the arm of the fat cat execs. in the industry in (china etc.} Another problem is I print my own and the cost of keeping the ink hungry printers fed is rediculous. Same problem with the polaroid cameras the cost of the film was so high they could have given the cameras away free. Enough for now , Have a great night...Don |
Glenn
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Username: Glenn
Post Number: 278
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 06:32 pm: |
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Mike,
Yes, film and processing will be available for many years yet. The market will contract, but in doing so I think you will find that some really good firms will emerge in the niche market. Also as stated above, you can always do your own processing.
However I find your comments on bows very interesting. Yes you can stuff the compound where the sun don't shine. I have made long, recurve and crossbows for the last forty years, using many materials - even experimented with alloy in the 70s. Keep the custom recurve as a memento of the good times and as a reminder that we do not have to follow the masses. |
Clay
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Username: Clay
Post Number: 6
Registered: 12-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 07:15 pm: |
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Hey Glenn,
Off-topic, but I still shoot a 64# Pearson Colt Working Recurve. Now to photograph it to get back on topic.
/Clay |
Mike_rgb
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Username: Mike_rgb
Post Number: 33
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2008 - 10:33 pm: |
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Keep the custom recurve as a memento of the good times and as a reminder that we do not have to follow the masses.
Who knows one day my grand son or Daughter may just want to take up where Grandpa left off. It is time to think of developing my film as just another part of photography. At one time all Photogs had to develop their own.
You know it did not surprise me when I found a couple of Bare Bow shooters in here. My Son used to hold the Maglight spot on target for me at night when he was 6, I never found a set of sights I liked. Just put it where I wanted it, used to say I thought it there. I miss the feel of the pull & the feel of the release. I was going to say the stalk, but I still stalk, only it's the camera I shoot them with now.
Mike |
Clay
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Username: Clay
Post Number: 7
Registered: 12-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, February 15, 2008 - 08:29 am: |
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Hey Mike and Glenn,
Let's move off this forum to discuss Real Bows !
e-mail me at: [email protected] if you wish.
/Clay |
Petercat
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Username: Petercat
Post Number: 23
Registered: 01-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, February 17, 2008 - 06:33 pm: |
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Film is here to stay. The major reason I can see (but seldom see discussed) is permanence. My grandchildren will be able to dig out my negatives and at least, scan them into a computer to see them. Will they even be able to find a computer that will read a DVD in twenty years? Will the DVD be readable? Many wedding photographers are going back to film for that reason, people who were married a few years ago are finding that the CDs they received have degraded into unreadability. The only memories they now have are fading dye prints. Archival technology for film products has long been proved, not so with digital.
I love the blogs that defend film, but somewhere in the blog say something like "But this only applies if you shoot exactly as I do, otherwise sell your film junk and go digital". What hubris! |
Wernerjb
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Username: Wernerjb
Post Number: 263
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 18, 2008 - 09:43 am: |
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Not so very long ago I started a thread about the future of 35mm film and almost every poster said it would never cease to exist. I had been suspicious then, and I am more than disillusioned now, as the only way to have a slide film developed and framed is a chain drugstore nearby, all the photoshops have quit or have been converted into gift shops and the like.
The availability of film is on its decline, close to zero where I live. Film is certainly NOT going to stay, as everthing is measured in terms of what profit can be drawn from a business. I wonder what comes after the digital episode.
Going digital? No, thanks. |
Glenn
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Username: Glenn
Post Number: 282
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 18, 2008 - 06:29 pm: |
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Of course the availability of film and processing will disappear from the High Street (Main Street USA?), but that will not be the end of the story. It may even be a good thing and actually help film to survive.
When I started photography, you could get your film processed at any local street corner chemist's shop. I could also buy film, chemicals and paper from my local chemist. These shops gradually stopped selling these products - some still supplied a limited film stock - but the onset of colour reversal film and the increase in High Street photographic retailers stopped the majority offering this service.
Here in UK, the general cut back, has in fact allowed a small number of specialised suppliers and processors to actually expand their business. Sure; I have to post off the D & P, and I order film off the Internet. The upside is - film is far cheaper than the local photo dealer's special order and comes next day delivery. The processing lab that I use has a far better control regime than the lab used by the big chain photo dealer. The laboratory has invested heavily in new equipment and their reputation is spreading, thus gaining new customers and increasing their profit margins. Firms need to make a profit. Thus in a decreased market, choice of facilities will be reduced and not as conveniently placed, as had been previously. In the ensuing 'niche market' we will probably find only one manufacture of coated products and limited processing laboratories. However; so long as the dedicated film users continue to practise their passion, and more importantly pass on this passion to the younger generation. The firms fulfilling the needs of this 'niche market' will continue to turn a profit and thus continue to trade.
In some respects, film users hold the future in their own hands. Spend less time in front of the computer screen, and expose more film from the likes of Ilford/Hartman. Support these small specialised firms, so they stay in business. The big yellow box its major competitor will soon shut the door on us, if sales really decline much further. That is the nature of the beast, they are not a charity but a source of income for the shareholders and their product base is too vast. We have a much better chance of keeping film alive by supporting a film manufacturer, who does just that - manufactures emulsion coated products. |
Mike_rgb
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Username: Mike_rgb
Post Number: 34
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 18, 2008 - 11:33 pm: |
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As I bought Adobe Photoshop & spent all those days, weeks, Months trying to climb a curve beyond reason at times. I thought about the weeks, Months, my Dad waited for his slides to return from NY. He Bought the Zeiss Ikon Contessa in Japan in 55 & no mater where we were Posted he sent them to NY.
I started this sort by date, repair with PS create a DVD slide for his 90th Birthday. On Dec 20 his 93 Birthday. I presented him with 2 DVDs with hundreds of cleaned repaired photos set into a slide show. There were times I wanted to stop this madness & take everthing to
anyone to finish this. My head hurt, I started at 10pm & colapsed into bed at 2am for what seemed a lifetime.
I learned 2 very important things. A Man can send his film long distance & have it developed if he must. Perhaps we can blame it on a US ARMY up bringing or mental problems to do what I did in my early 50s. I was taught that if I wanted a bike trade, build, etc. I could take what fit into my metal foot locker. This could be why I don't expect anything I don't buy or trade or learn to do myself.
Yes Film will be forever as long as we want it to. Develop it myself, of course I'f I want to I will. Just as I found all these great Cameras when their owners believed they needed a digi more than that Nikon FE. I once believed (Good lenses don't get sold) Well that's true if it is the right power for that new Nikon DSLR :0).
You all make great reasons & methods for keeping Film alive. I'm with you 100 percent.
Mike |
Nickm758
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Username: Nickm758
Post Number: 5
Registered: 02-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 06:49 am: |
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I'm grateful for companies like Fujifilm who've got their heads screwed-on straight and know that film hasn't just died overnight. They know that there are still folks out there who enjoy shooting it. I have heard that the current CEO himself likes it as well.
After shooting Fortia 50 for the first time last year I'm convinced that digital is just not up to scratch. It can't beat Fortia, Velvia, E100vs and certainly not Kodachrome.
Keep trying! |
Alex
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Username: Alex
Post Number: 46
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 01:36 pm: |
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When I was a lad, a novice and enthusiast for my newly discovered hobby of photography, a roll of 35mm Ilford FP3 (yes, 3) in Britain in the mid-sixties was about 6/8d (that's in pre-decimal currency), or three for a pound sterling. Today, I can get the equivalent roll (FP4+) for about £1.70. Now, by my reckoning, prices in general have increased on average by a factor of about x30 since then (basing my calculations, entirely unscientifically, on the then price of a Mars Bar, at 4d). This means that my roll of FP4+, if increased at the same rate, should have cost me about £10. So film is now cheaper, for me anyway, than at any time in history, and of technically fabulous quality. Of course, at that price, I have to get it by mail order in bulk, but even so, I have in my freezer enough film for my wife to complain bitterly about the lack of space for frozen peas, and keep my cameras generously supplied for a long time.
I'm sorry to read that fellow photographers are having difficulty in finding film, and unfortunately the source I use only supplies UK addresses.
I gave up on the film/digital thing a long time ago, with the realisation that there was more to photography than pixel counts and lines per millimetre. Since picking up a very old copy of 'How to Make Good Pictures: the Kodak Manual for Amateur Photographers', printed at around the end of the last world war, and being fascinated by the sheer charm of the photographs in it, I have bought myself an old Box Brownie, and been having a ball with it.
Try it! |
Adrian
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Username: Adrian
Post Number: 136
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 03:27 pm: |
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Hurrah! I'm glad I'm not the only Box Brownie shooter here! I don't shoot as often as when I had access to darkroom facilities, but it is a serious test of ability to compose a picture in a viewfinder the size of a thumbnail. I'm not a particularly good photographer, but much of the increase in skill from "completely pants" has come from the thought it needs to take anything half-decent with a box camera.
Given that there are people who shoot wet collodion still, I reckon film is doomed - it'll be gone in about another century.
Adrian |
Adrian
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Username: Adrian
Post Number: 137
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 03:29 pm: |
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Oh yes, and I shoot a recurve too - sadly I sold the longbow, as I so rarely had a chance to shoot it, but I do keep eyeing up yew trees...
Adrian |
Mike_rgb
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Username: Mike_rgb
Post Number: 35
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 10:00 pm: |
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Last summer Fuji ISO 100 4 packs of print film went on sale for less than a buck a roll. Bam it's all gone, & this ISO 200 is everywhere now. I shot a half dozen Clasic car shows & 3 Clasic Motorcycle shows with ISO 100 last Summer Sweet stuff in mat.
By keeping small albums of my best pics I hope to get some Custom shoots for owners while there here in NC this Summer. With so many waterfalls & sunshine, I really enjoy working with these Clasic cars & Bikes.
What do you think about ISO 200? Why did Fuji drop 100 in retail outlets in favor of 200? Will I get the same paint look like the smooth 40s,50s & 60s colors ISO 100 produces from ISO 200?
I have a discription for universial ( It Fits everything but doesent fit a damn thing ). Could be a Master Mechanic hang up on my part. We put them back on the road as good or better than the factory back in the Days.
Since I am somewhat new to Photogrophy you will find me asking question like What's my benifit from Fuji ISO 200 over ISO 100? I can order ISO 100 in Fuji & llford if need be.
Mike
PS: I know what YEW mean. YEW guys sure have some real history with the Long Bow. |
Petercat
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Username: Petercat
Post Number: 26
Registered: 01-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 05:31 pm: |
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And the old english archery comment "Pluck Yew" has devolved into our modern, if somewhat insulting, comment now used by angry people to express their displeasure with someone. |
Petercat
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Username: Petercat
Post Number: 27
Registered: 01-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 05:32 pm: |
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Which is my usual reply to any Photosnob who wants to sneer at my brace of F1s. |
Wernerjb
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Username: Wernerjb
Post Number: 270
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 02:31 am: |
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yew poisoning? |
Glenn
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Username: Glenn
Post Number: 288
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 11:40 am: |
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Sorry Petercat, but you have fallen for a piece of early Internet crap. Far from being an Old English archery term, it belongs to the 90% of total rubbish on the Internet - modern 1995 (ish).
People also try and connect the phrase and the modern 'giving one the finger' to the battle of Agincourt. (Allegedly the French threatened to cut the middle finger from the drawing hand of English archers). Only trouble with this tale - you can still pull a bow with a missing middle finger - loose the first and middle finger and you are in serious trouble. I know two top class bowmen, one lost the middle finger of his draw hand in an accident, the other was born with the top two joints of his middle finger missing. This has not stopped them using both classic and modern target bows.
The correct folk-law tale (understandable and believable by any present day user of the classic bow) is that the French threatened to cut off the 1st and 2nd fingers of the English archers' draw hand. Thus the English would taunt the French by giving them the 'V sign'. Hence the modern usage beloved by the British, so much more expressive than 'giving the finger'!
Not photography, but what the heck - history is the basis of what we are. Shame we do not learn more from it. |
Wernerjb
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Username: Wernerjb
Post Number: 271
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 02:46 pm: |
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Right, Glenn, that is what I meant by "yew poisoning" (causing dizziness etc).
The internet actually IS one (intellectually disastrous, at least on a large scale) result brought about by what you call "history". Not only are the days of archery over, but also gone are those of any Hegelian world spirit. "History" in the singular is a notion of the past. The problem of misinterpreting historically evident "facts" wouldn't exist if the lesson to be learnt was so easy, W. |
Petercat
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Username: Petercat
Post Number: 30
Registered: 01-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 03:59 pm: |
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Actually, Glenn, I didn't fall for it... and it was radio talk show, not internet. But though it be crap, it be entertaining crap. |
Mike_rgb
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Username: Mike_rgb
Post Number: 36
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 11:13 pm: |
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Glenn said: "History is the basis of what we are. Shame we do not learn more from it." How true
yet as we speak history is being revieled deeper
& with a better understanding. I believe that it is film that I use to understand & pass along
a small part of current events. Current events as we all know can become tommorows history.
Do you like to dig into sayings Wives tales, parts of songs? Like the Tribes passed it down in cave pictures & songs. Modern Man does it with canvas & photos, along with sayings & songs. Remember the saying? ( Those who do not learn from History are damned to repeat it.) How true that is when you think about it.
I have 2 brownies, 1 is a kit with the camera the Kodak multi use flash & the inside edge is ringed with the large flash bulb. In fact my baby pics & pics up to the 1955 Zeiss Ikon Contessa were taken with my Moms Brownie. I think I will keep them & try to take some pictures.
Mike |
Alex
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Username: Alex
Post Number: 48
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 25, 2008 - 05:14 am: |
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And nice to see other Box Brownie enthusiasts too. I don't know if any non-UK members would have seen it, but a while ago I watched a documentary on TV, about press photographer Arthur Edwards (who works for The Sun). He had been challenged to go on a press outing and take photographs of the Queen, using a 1900 Kodak Box Brownie.
It was fascinating. There was Arthur, in among a throng of press photographer colleagues all with big Canon and Nikon guns, and him carrying a Brownie. Being an old pro, of course, he knew the moment to shoot. Apparently, she'd glanced his way, and, being a photographer herself, noticed the Brownie, and that was Arthur's cue. He got a very nice shot, and it was of course published. You know, that cheered me up no end. And a good example of the old adage, that it's the photographer, not the camera. |
Glenn
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Username: Glenn
Post Number: 289
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 25, 2008 - 05:48 am: |
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Alex,
Yes, it was a good documentary. The only concession to the 'old equipment' I saw, was the that the Queen appeared to give him a moment to frame the shot after initially noticing him. She was probably wondering what the heck he was doing with a Box Brownie; after all, he is a very well known face amongst the press crew.
Mike's quote about being damned to repeat history is very true. However it is very sad that it is always various groups, peoples or races that keep getting hurt in the repeats. Re- inventing the wheel or some photographic system etc, hurts nobody - just wastes the new 'inventors' time. |
Clay
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Username: Clay
Post Number: 9
Registered: 12-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 25, 2008 - 10:23 am: |
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Well, I still use my Kodak Brownie Twin Reflex 127
and 2 Kodak Brownie Starflash 127's. Cut down and
re-roll 120 film for them. Also 120 Ensign Greyhound
bellows camera. Still use my 32# Yew Longbow as well.
/Clay |
Adrian
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Username: Adrian
Post Number: 141
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 07:08 am: |
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Hmmm, what box cameras have I used? Two post-war Coronets, one a near-mint French one, two Kodak No2 Model F Brownies, a No2 Model E, an Ensign Ful-Vue, an All-Distance Ensign, a Zeiss-Ikon Box Tengor... That's all that come to mind at the moment, but I may have played with more! I've certainly got a Baby Brownie Special that needs a film through it soon. By the way, Clay, 127 is still available in the UK - not so in Canada? Or does postage etc make it not worth buying from over here?
As I've 43 cameras (at last count... not inclusing at least two as kits of parts) it's getting too retentive to list every one I've used... Suffice to say that the Voigtlander Vito, the Moskva 4, the Argus C3 are the ones I use most after my OM10 , and hopefully I'll get some use from the Werra's this summer...
Adrian
(maybe next winter I'll get another longbow...) |
Clay
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Username: Clay
Post Number: 10
Registered: 12-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 08:19 am: |
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Hey Adrian,
Yes 127 is still available in Canada, but I am way
up North in the bush just below Algonquin Provincial
Park. Don't get down to "Civilization" in Toronto
very much.Easier to cut and re-roll film. Same as I
weave and bee's-wax bowstrings and make and fletch
Port-Orford Cedar arrows. We are a dieing breed !, ha!
Best regards,
/Clay |
Adrian
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Username: Adrian
Post Number: 142
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 08:21 am: |
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Ah yes, we Brits forget that actually we live in quite a small country!
Doesn't that POC smell lovely when you cut it?
Adrian |
Bomobob
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Username: Bomobob
Post Number: 33
Registered: 10-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 11:03 am: |
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Hey, Algonquin Boy....
Who sells 127 here in Canada? Henry's? I just picked up this baby at a Value Village, and since my wife in in NYC this week, got her to go to B&H to stock up.
http://flickr.com/photos/bomobob/2296673619/ |
Clay
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Username: Clay
Post Number: 11
Registered: 12-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 05:49 pm: |
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Our friends at Henry's and Vistek have gone about
90% digital these days. There is a guy out in
Calgary, Alberta who supplies 127. I believe that
he and a group bought an abandoned film factory
and put it back into production:
http://frugalphotographer.com/
Nice pic of your new camera . You can find me
on flickr in the group: 'Ontario Photo Collective'.
Another close source is:
http://filmforclassics.com in Honeoye Falls N.Y.
They ship to Canada. Will do a web search now that
you got me interested in 127 in Canada again.
/Clay |
Wernerjb
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Username: Wernerjb
Post Number: 276
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, February 29, 2008 - 01:42 am: |
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I have known for some time there are people out there who run a small scale production of exotic electron tubes (indispensable for the restoration of antique radio equipment), and it is good news to hear that also outdated film, and film packs resp., are back.
Maybe the future is not as dim as I imagined it to be W. |
Mike_rgb
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Username: Mike_rgb
Post Number: 37
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, February 29, 2008 - 11:17 pm: |
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My Son now 31 started collecting light bulbs at age 6. At first we thought it was just a fad but after age 10 he had hundreds boxed & numbered. Being an ARMY BRAT for 17 years, I thought he was a bit strange. By his early teens it was Radio & TV tubes some worth a few hundred USDs.
Today he loves Practikas & has tube radios/TVs + tubes far to many to count. If I learned anything & believe me I did, it was like minds will find each other. We still have film on the shelves & he will get a letter from someone with a part/tube gone since the 40s. He has always had a great way with older Men & Women who collect, some give him many things as their days are numbered. They must believe he will carry on & indeed he does.
I too look into the future with a brighter outlook about film & Cameras. As long as we want to use film & these beautiful works of art it will be so. After all many of you had a lifetime of film & film Cameras, I just got started in ernest at 50. I'm having a ball everytime I find an older camera bag with a like new Fujica etc & 2 or 3 lens + small goodies for $35.00. Many people bought Cameras & such then did not use them very much, that's ok by me, I'll use them :o)
Mike |
Clay
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Username: Clay
Post Number: 12
Registered: 12-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 07:39 am: |
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Mike,
When I sold my house in Scarborough and moved to
my farm up here, I tossed 3 cartons of tubes, sigh.
Wish I had kept them. Still have my Heathkit tube
tester.Also into antique radios and amplifiers.
Was a radar tech in Royal Canadian Air Force.It
no longer exists ! Canadien Forces Eh !
/Clay |
Mike_rgb
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Username: Mike_rgb
Post Number: 38
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 11:26 pm: |
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Clay
Did you get my e-Mail?
Mike |
Clay
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Username: Clay
Post Number: 13
Registered: 12-2006
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Hi Mike,
Yes and I replied the same day,2 March to your address. Has not been returned as undeliverable?? Will re-send if you want.
/Clay |
Mike_rgb
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Username: Mike_rgb
Post Number: 39
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 10:42 pm: |
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Hi Clay
I'm sending you my G mail address. ATT is taking over Bell South. We were all happy when AT&T left years ago. You know what they say about bad pennies LOL :0)
Mike |
