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Article #624238Re: Computers, anyone?
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:16
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 18:16
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hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com writes: >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. > >Note--last time I checked, the chain drugstore still sold Tri-X, >even though Kodak no longer makes processing chemical or print paper. > >Kodak also has a Kodachrome magazine: >https://www.kodak.com/US/en/kodachrome/default.htm > >However, I tried finding still film on their website but couldn't. > I've got about 8 unexposed rolls of Kodak ASA100 sitting in the fridge that I don't know what to do with.
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