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On Fri, 29 Jun 2018, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

> On Friday, June 29, 2018 at 6:19:46 AM UTC-4, Peter Flass wrote:
>
>> Getting ready to sell my Olympus in a garage sale, and there's a good
>> possibility no one will want it. I want to cry. That camera took wonderful
>> pictures, even with my limited knowledge of appropriate settings, but
>> dead-tree pictures are in the past now.
>>
>> I think you can get good digital SLR cameras, but the cost is about the
>> same as a good film camera, you're paying for the optics.
>
> I gave up film when Kodak stopped developing it.  I was finding
> the cost of buying film going up, plus harder to find the type
> I wanted.  I got a digital SLR.
>
> Admittedly, I miss my film camera, though generally, the digital
> can do more (like easily adapt to different light sources, motor
> drive, good auto focus/auto exposure, time/date stamp, and instant
> view.)
>
> I think film handled high contrast situations better than digital.
>
> A friend offered me his old Nikon F, a real classic, but I realized
> I'd have no use for it and it would just gather dust, so I declined.
>
It's like "antique computers", now you can grab all kinds of SLRs with 
lenses for a pittance, but there's a lot less reason to use them.

I've been tempted, but then I think about the cost of film and developing, 
and I remember why I mostly stopped taking pictures before I got a digital 
camera.

What I find interesting is that so long as you don't need a high megapixel 
count, there are lots of interesting digital cameras around.  I got a 
Canon three years ago for $20, not sure what it was at the time except it 
had 12x or 20x zoom.  I thought it might be a DSLR, but it wasn't, but it 
was an expensive model at the time, so probably the optics are better than 
average.  One can screw on an additional lense, though I suspect those 
would be expensive due to limited supply.

I have an earlier Canon, I paid three dollars for it, and the specs are 
nothing great, but it was aimed at a more professional market than 
consumers, so it's better than average.

People just don't want them because they are now "old" nad aren't 20MPs.

Two years ago I did see an early Sony digital camera, one that saved to a 
floppy disc, I was tempted but wasn't sure of the price, me not willing to 
spend a lot on a camera I wasn't intending to actually use. I already have 
an early Apple digital camera, no plug in memory, no display of what the 
camera sees, and the pixel count really low, though that's a plus since 
the memory is relatively small.  YOu need a serial port to get those 
pictures off the camera. Not useful at all now, but I paid a few dollars 
so it's worth having for the novelty.

   Michael