Bob, you said something very important, I think:



For those, film has definitely become pushed away by digital devices meanwhile, especially cellphones.

But still ... I always found it difficult for me to define "every day photography purposes" perfectly. How many valuable ( in the meaning of viewing ever again ) pictures do we really take ? Sometimes, I have difficulties, filling my test films ( I always use to take one with every new camera, I get ) with something, worth taking a picture of.

And then, there is this new ... may I call it "addiction" ? ... for uploading everything instantly and immediately into social networks like Facebook. I use Facebook too, but I don't need to take a picture of every dinner I have and post it on my wall In the end, people develope some kind of habbit. The cellphone is always in their pocket and even in situations, where it would be much better, using a more decent camera, they take pictures with what they are used to ... daily life photography.

That's all okay ( everybody has his personal habbits and they are all different ), but once, somebody is capable of putting this "instant attitude" aside, the whole life doesn't become that bad. A decision, everybody needs to make by himself, but I don't really care anymore, when I will get my pictures. It can take weeks sometimes, until the film is full as well sometimes, but it's actually not that bad. When I get my film back, there are even some shots on it, I already forgot, that I took them ... but I can enjoy that. From my "digital times", I still have thousands of pictures on my harddisk, I never ever reviewed again ( simply because they have been too many of each event ). So, it's much more fun for me, using film again ... even it is not as comfortable as digital ... and in combination with my hobby anyway I do really enjoy working with every new old camera, I find. I simply don't have the opportunity for shooting digital anymore ... hahaha ... so many old treasures are still waiting for becoming used again.

Just today ... I got a fantastic "Bencini Koroll 24s". Do you think, I could resist using it and shoot with my digital camera instead ? I couldn't ... even I would need to send the film to the moon for getting it developed But ... the fun of using film and collecting old cameras is definitely connected somehow, I guess.

That's true, Bob ... however, we are lucky to live in an "online world", which keeps us quite independent from local availablities. I order many things online meanwhile ... even mineral water, which might sound ridiculous. I could buy it right around the corner in a local store, but it is even cheaper at Amazon. No shipping costs, delivery in one day and I don't need to carry the heavy bottles.

This is just an example and we order many things online meanwhile, also film, which I mostly order from Germany or Korea ... even living in the biggest city on earth. And it is not only about film. Many ( often very simple ) things are not available in the neighbourhood anymore. I used to live in a 50.000 people town close to Duesseldorf before coming to Japan. When I went back there last summer for visiting my friends and family, I wanted to buy a small light bulb and a certain battery. Not really unusal things, but the shop for electric goods, which I knew from my childhood was gone as well as many other stores, selling different kinds of daily life goods. So, the people either have to drive to the next big city ( even for a light bulb ) or order it online. That's how it became ... not only regarding film and photography.

Nice cameras !!!

Dr. Strangelove is of course classic !!! How about Dr. Mabuse and Dr. Fu Manchu ? But as somebody, who loves animals, I would of course vote for Mickeys Dr. Dolittle as well Should be the 1967s movie though. I am not a big fan of Eddie Murphy.

Straight words, Mickey ... and I would totally agree with that !!! However, I appreciate this movement for the effect, introducing film and "real" photography to the younger generation again. Many people start with a simple toy camera but switch to a better camera then, once they notice, what interesting things can be done by just working with shutter speed, aperture, different film types, processing techniques or whatever. Analog photography offers a lot of fun beyond iPhone apps and photoshopping and great results can be achieved in a very simple way. I also don't think, that all pictures, taken with those toy cameras are crap. I saw a lot of quite amazing pictures, when people have been very creative, working with double exposures, special lenses, cross processing films, colored flashes, pinhole or whatever. Many new developed film cameras are also extending the capabilities of classic film cameras by exposing two frames or even a whole film strip. Those lomography guys are doing a lot to promote film and the creative possibilities coming with that. We should not forget, that many young people have never seen a film camera in their life and the education needs to start from zero ... as if a hundred years of photography has never happened.

I just came home from drinking with my photographer friends. I am just occasionally working profesionally in this field ... mostly because I could never really become used to the digital world of professional photography. The whole workflow of shooting thousands of RAWs and creating the actual picture on a computer later is simply not photography for me anymore. And all photographers are complaining. They get paid for the shooting but have to spend hours and days in front of their PCs for retouching and retouching ... until the customers finally think, that they are looking beautiful on their pictures. What a weird world

So, I can appreciate any effort for keeping film alive and also, that people are capable of accepting imperfectionism again. That's what this lomo-movement is doing in it's own way.

Hahaha ... probably not ;D



"Our man Flint" ... yeah, I saw it. Didn't like James Coburn in that one though. He is not really the "charming playboy type". He fits much better in different roles ... from my liking.

But I can recommend "Dr. Goldfoot & The Bikini Machine", starring Vincent Price
... if somebody is in the mood for these kind of movies. I am, sometimes

Yes ... pretty noisy. At ISO 400 ? Or ... you cropped it a lot ? 200 mm seems to be a little bit too less for this angle of view.