Have you ever used film?

Have you ever used film?

  • Yes all the time

    Votes: 43 33.6%

  • Yes but only when it was the only format available

    Votes: 67 52.3%

  • No but I plan on soon

    Votes: 5 3.9%

  • No never

    Votes: 13 10.2%
  • Total voters
    128
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Yes
I have been wondering about this for a while, I thought it would be interesting to see how many people actually use the wonderful stuff.
 
None of them really apply to me. So my answer would be sometimes when experimenting with portraits. :shrug: Not an expert though.
 
Well i voted no, but i'm sure i have probably taken a few snaps with my mums old film camera when i was much younger.
 
I have just started using film as i bought a very cheap Olympus OM-2 and am on my 2nd roll of film. I have also just bought some colour film to see what that's like. I don't know if I'll keep going with film but I'm enjoying it at the moment quite a lot.
 
There wasn't anything else available when I started photography as a kid in the 60s. I bought my first digital camera somewhere around 2002 - 2003, but I still have the film cameras and use them occasionally. 99% digital now, its just so much more convenient for me in many ways.
 
Never tried it but i am wanting to shoot a few rolls of film soon for my photography course. I dont think it will convert me to shooting on film often i just want it as more of a experiment sort of thing.
 
MartynK said:
There wasn't anything else available when I started photography as a kid in the 60s.
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Same here. Film, hand held light meters and a lot of guesswork. So much easier now especially as I can shoot at all sorts of settings and just discard the ones I don't like.
 
I don't think I have ever taken a decent landscape or portrait image on digital, because its so much easier I just rush it. With film I have to slow down take light readings, focus and because I only have 12 images I make sure that each one is perfect.
 
Not for about eight years now - not since digital started getting close - and now that it's overtaken film for most practical uses, I can see myself never using it again...
Those film-cameras on the shelf are just ornaments now...
 
yes and used to develop and print in colour too. Went digital with an early 1.3mp Olympus, saw the future and sold my canon T90 and A1 while they still had value.

Digital can give a decent print in 5 minutes, film might take an entire evening and loads of wasted paper to get one good shot.

My digital results now far exceed what I achieved with film, Film is dead as far as I am concerned..............
 
I used film for about 45 years :eek: :lol: - still have a film camera and all the darkroom kit.

I only went digital a few years ago but am now totally converted.
 
david1701 said:
needs a yes sometimes option ;)
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MagicMynx said:
Yes I have used film, but none of the options there are acurate for me to click. :lol:
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:plusone:

To both the above. Only option available when I started, used to do all my own (B&W) D&P as well when I had access to a darkroom.

Carried on using film for FF options until I bought a D700 just before Christmas 2008. Still got the bodies and several rolls of film in the fridge - must have a shot (!) at reducing stocks soon. Quite looking forward to it.
 
The question and the options don't match! "Have you ever" should be "Do you" to go with the options.
Yes, I have used film. Since early 70's til I went digital in 2006. Had a play a couple of years back when I bought a Pentax MX, same as I cut my teeth on. Funny, that camera lasted from about '76 through to 1990. Didn't need to "upgrade" at any time!!.
Webby
 
Used to shoot with a Nikon 35mm way before Digital which makes me sounds really old and I'm only 35!
 
I started with film in 1965 and I still use it today. I have 21 film cameras and 1 digital camera, Canon 350D bought in 2006.

In the past 4 years I have used almost 200 rolls of film and still have around 96 in the fridge, when I go out with my cameras I take both digital and film and use both, but I will only use the film camera for what is important to me.

My T90 is an excellent machine I can totally rely on, as are the quality FD lenses I have, I just enjoy using them much more than the digital.

Maybe out of sync with today's world, but then I always have been.


John:)
 
My first cameras were compact ones with a film cassette ~ don't remember what they were called.

I bought a Yashica FX-3 35mm SLR in about 1982 which saw almost continuous use until the late 1990's, when I bought my first digital p&s. The Yashica still gets an occasional airing and still takes great pictures - totally manual :clap: The 50mm f/1.9 lens that came with the FX-3 can also be used on my D90 thanks to an adapter :)

One of my grandsons is learning about the shutter speed/aperture/ISO exposure triangle with it. Even though he has a digital p&s he preferes to use the Yashica :D Grandad, however, doesn't like the cost of film development these days :nono:
 
Yes, since the early 70s - 1970s - not 1870s. Mostly 120 medium format roll film these days, if I do any at all.

Also used:

Records - 33s and 45s
Cassettes
8 track
Fountain pens
Slide rule
Log tables
Valve radio
Mechanical piano-key VCR
TV without a remote control
Dial type telephone
Hand-push lawnmower
Dynamo powered bicycle lights
Clockwork clocks
Mechanical and electric typewriters
Dictionary
Laserdisc (and the more obscure Laservision)
 
Yes - sometimes. I actually shot a roll of black and white at the lencarta art/nude model shoot yesterday!
 
Just got hold of a Nikon F3 hp, ive used fim in the past but only in compacts so this is going to be my first time working out exposures etc, nearly got everything i need to process my own film as well now so that will be fun learning
 
Jamesstan said:
Just got hold of a Nikon F3 hp, ive used fim in the past but only in compacts so this is going to be my first time working out exposures etc, nearly got everything i need to process my own film as well now so that will be fun learning
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why ? just decide what f stop you want ,,,use it as ap
 
Yes I'm still using film - nowadays it's black & white film only and love using and processing it. I can honestly say I've never tried digital, however modern technology has never been my forte.
 
MisterE said:
Yes, since the early 70s - 1970s - not 1870s. Mostly 120 medium format roll film these days, if I do any at all.

Also used:

Records - 33s and 45s Still do - got loads of albums that I haven't "upgraded" to CDs.
Cassettes Still got loads but now the cars both have CD players rather than cassette decks so redundant (apart from a couple of cassettes that friends may have recorded for me and a band demo from a few years back.)
8 track
Fountain pens I rarely use anything else for "proper" writing (letters, cheques, cards etc). I'll use a gel pen or roller ball for shopping lists, postcards and the like but much prefer the balance and glide of a real pen.
Slide rule Can but don't. Why bother when there's a calculator to hand?
Log tables See above.
Valve radio
Mechanical piano-key VCR
TV without a remote control
Dial type telephone
Hand-push lawnmower
Dynamo powered bicycle lights
Clockwork clocks Got a couple but don't use them. Same with my mechanical watch.
Mechanical and electric typewriters
Dictionary Got and use several, from a mini one that sits beside the 'puter to a 1 volume "Shorter OED" for more obscure words.
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Trappe said:
Reminds me of the time a few years ago when my two daughters came running downstairs all excited...."Dad we've just found a stack of big CD's in the Attic":lol::lol:
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I forgot my laserdisc! Thanks. Added it now.
 
Well I have just started using film :thumbs:, but I still use the digi for work.

So "sometimes"
 
I voted for yes, all the time, but that isn't really accurate any more for me.

I have a film slr, and sometimes run a B&W film through it, occaisionally I will run a colour film through it too.

I only made the switch to digital in 2008, and was using film exlcusively from about 1989 until then. Now I use digital most of the time.

I was introducing some Yr 7 kids to the darkroom (age 11) and they had never seen film before - the concept of opening the back of the camera was alien to them!
 
I've still got a Canon 1V and used to process all my film myself and print manually, thoroughly enjoyed it although do it much less now.
 
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