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Post by pureglass on Aug 29, 2013 7:56:34 GMT -5
Hi all
Although I never saw myself as one, I guess I am a camera collector. I always loved cameras since my father bought me my first Agfa Box camera way back in the early sixties. I still have it. That was followed by a Diana, a Kodak Instamatic 104, my dad's 1950's Mamiya 6, when he upgraded to a Leica - and so I can go on. I have never tried to collect cameras but they seem to follow me home. I love them all from my Leica M3 to the little Olympus D395 digital camera in the back of the drawer. The Olympus is now sadly put to shame by even an entree level smart phone camera. Then there is The Pentax K1000 I was issued with when I started working as a journalist, a string of Nikon's etc. etc. Fact is I love the film camera's just a tad more than digital cameras. They simply have more personality. I also believe that a camera that is not being used is a dead camera. I don't have that many cameras, but they all work, the film cameras are loaded and the digital cameras are charged.
Thanks for having me and looking forward to share the wonderful word of photography with you
Cape Town South Africa
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Post by Peltigera on Aug 29, 2013 8:00:45 GMT -5
Welcome. This is a nice, friendly forum with lots of advice available if you want it.
I too think my cameras should be used and at any time I have three or four loaded with film. With over forty cameras now (I am a beginner compared to most here) I cannot have them all loaded all the time, but I tried to make sure they do not feel unloved.
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Post by pureglass on Aug 29, 2013 9:24:37 GMT -5
Thanks for the welcome. With the price of film nowadays it is quite an investment to keep you film cameras loaded.
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Post by mickeyobe on Aug 29, 2013 10:26:59 GMT -5
pureglass,
Thanks for coming and welcome.
Our points of view on using my collected cameras diverge.
But that is what makes this site so great.
Mickey
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Post by pureglass on Aug 29, 2013 11:17:15 GMT -5
What a boring world if we all had the same opinions.
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Post by Stephen on Aug 29, 2013 15:36:08 GMT -5
A camera to try and collect....the Pontiac Baby-Lynx...the only camera ever made in Africa, in French Morocco, admittedly made by a French company.... I like the idea of the cameras following you home...a great excuse.
Stephen.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2013 19:09:01 GMT -5
Welcome. Met some Capetown folks on a European tour a few years ago They were great people. Glad to have someone from that area on the forum.
Wayne
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Post by julio1fer on Aug 29, 2013 20:50:14 GMT -5
Welcome! D395, my first digital camera...
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Post by vintageslrs on Aug 29, 2013 22:18:46 GMT -5
Welcome!
Happy you found us.
Visit often, Post often.
Enjoy!
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Post by pureglass on Aug 30, 2013 1:18:35 GMT -5
Thanks for the friendly welcome.....and I newer knew that there were such a thing as a camera camera made in Africa. This is now excluding my pin hole school project many years ago!
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Post by Doug T. on Aug 30, 2013 8:53:13 GMT -5
Hi pureglass! Welcome to the forum! I know you'll enjoy it here. I also know that there are quite a few photographica collectors in Capetown. I've had the pleasure of dealing with them on occasion  I collect a lot of Ansco items as they were made here in my hometown of Binghamton, New York. Doug |
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Post by daveh on Sept 23, 2013 10:26:56 GMT -5
Welcome, pureglass. I agree in principle with cameras being used, but I'm afraid the cost of film makes anything other than occasional use of the older cameras a bit prohibitive cost wise: ditto, but more so, with cine film. I've just photographed the wedding of the son of a friend on Saturday. I ended up with about 1,500 shots on two cameras and a total of about 3 hours video (2 camcorders). Much of it will be fit only for the bin but it doesn't cost much to consign it to the bin.
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Post by pureglass on Sept 27, 2013 6:35:55 GMT -5
If we are totally honest one has to be slightly crazy to persist with film photography. Same goes for analog records. What a dull world will we live in without a bit of craziness, and film photography, and vinyl records, and books, newspapers and magazines printed on real paper and I can go on.....
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Post by mickeyobe on Sept 27, 2013 10:42:18 GMT -5
pureglass. "... and I can go on....." Stop! You have me convinced. I am crazy. I like it. But Dave is right. It is too expensive nowadays to be crazy so I will only admit to being mildly disturbed. As Bob says, "Nobody got hurt, nobody got insulted and nobody quit the forum." So I have evaded the straightjacket thus far. I just have to keep on stepping around those egg shells. Mickey  |
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Post by daveh on Sept 27, 2013 18:40:26 GMT -5
The trouble with film, though, is how many people actually print photos from negative stock onto photographic paper? Most I know who are still using film resort to scanning it and then viewing it digitally. I do get quite a number of my digital shots printed out, usually just at 6x4inch. A local photographic shop does proper photographic enlargements rather than those (inkjet-ish) normally available from the machines available in several shops. I do print a few out on the little Canon 6x4 printer - this uses dye transfer. The results are certainly better than what comes out of ink-jets, but a bit more expensive than photographic shop can do theirs. I do still the prefer the look and feel of a proper print or book, rather than viewing on a digital screen. I can put 1 slide film through every camera I have in a year, or go out and buy a really good lens for the same money. The more I think about it, the crazier it seems to get to still be using slide film. But then when was common sense a real consideration? |
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