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[Water Warrior 2]

Another make work project. Spent a lot of time a few years ago trying to find a battery for my 1976 Pentax camera, no luck. Guess I was talking to the wrong sales people cause I'm am smiling now. Just for fun I Goggled the battery # and found a bunch of workable replacements. Went hunting this morning and actually found one in town.
So now I can get back to taking pics on film with a very simple but wonderful camera. Thanks to modern technology the film can be put on a disc and fed to the computer.


Note to self: take the friggin camera on your rides.

[mrlmd1]

What is film?
I'm trying to remember what that was. Is that what went into all those 35mm SLR cameras I have with all the telephoto and wide angles lenses and filters and rifle stock grips to hold it steady? And do they make Polaroid film anymore? I think I still have a couple of those.

[BusyWeb]

I miss those old mechanical cameras...
If I could embed image sensor at the back of those camera, I would go back.
Specially, on the midume or large format cameras.
I once saw the advertisement of Midume Format DSLR >> prices are really high; expensiver than a good reliable cage price.. ha ha ha

[burkbuilds]

Mrlmd1, I think Polaroid stopped making the instant film within the last year, but you might still be able to find someone selling it on the internet from old stock inventory. Those were great when I used to do insurance repair jobs because you could snap a picture and staple it to the paperwork right on the job site to show what damage you found and how you fixed it, no computers or printers or ink cartridges necessary.

[Water Warrior 2]

Right on BB. Years ago a friend of mine used a polaroid whenever he was tearing something apart in the garage. He always got things back together properly and no missing/extra parts at job's end.

[alantf]

What is film?
Is that what went into all those 35mm SLR cameras I have with all the telephoto and wide angles lenses and filters and rifle stock grips to hold it steady?

And I could add (about my Olympus 35mm gear) "That cost me the equivalent of hundreds of $$$$$ when I bought it, 30 years ago, still in excellent condition, but worth nickels & dimes if I wanted to sell it now"

The one thing I miss, about my cheapo digital camera, is the Olympus flashgun that could light up an aircraft hangar! :)

[mrlmd1]

Anyone remember flashbulbs?
And anyone still use a lightmeter?

[burkbuilds]

My mom and dad had a camera with a big reflector built on top. You had to screw in a light bulb then it only made one flash and you needed a new bulb. As technology improved, we got a little cube that had four sides, it fit on other cameras that were more "modern", the cube turned 90 degrees after each flash, so you got four flashes before you had to put a new cube on top. Yeah, I remember.

[bonehead]

My mom and dad had a camera with a big reflector built on top. You had to screw in a light bulb then it only made one flash and you needed a new bulb. As technology improved, we got a little cube that had four sides, it fit on other cameras that were more "modern", the cube turned 90 degrees after each flash, so you got four flashes before you had to put a new cube on top. Yeah, I remember.
Showing our age. I member too.

[alantf]

As technology improved, we got a little cube that had four sides, it fit on other cameras that were more "modern", the cube turned 90 degrees after each flash, so you got four flashes before you had to put a new cube on top.

On the polaroid camera, I remember the "flash bar". This had 5 flashbulbs in a row, that were used automatically, one after the other, as you took pictures. When these 5 were used up, you turned the flash bar round, & there were 5 more on the other side. :)

[Water Warrior 2]

Anyone remember flashbulbs?
And anyone still use a lightmeter?
The Pentax has a built in light meter needle so I can adjust the lens accordingly. Used the camera today but won't know if it will turn out or not. No idea how many exposures are left on the film or even how old it is. One day soon I will find out.

[dhgeyer]

I got seriously into photography in 1969. I bought a used cheap SLR, but within weeks had built a crude view camera from a cardboard box, a magnifying glass, some sort of cardboard tube, and tape. I used paper for film, and contact printed it wet - like the Calotypes originally invented by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1839.

I built my first real view camera in 1971, with a store bought bellows and lens/shutter/aperture setup from Schneider. The rest was made of
wood, with a string-wound-on-shaft focusing mechanism. It had all the possible view camera movements (tilts, swings, and rising and falling back and front). It worked well.

Then I got a Calumet 4 by 5. Used that for years for all kinds of stuff. At the same time I had a Leica M3 and Konica Autoreflex. I also picked up a Mamiya TLR, the one with the interchangeable sets of twin lenses. I was doing a lot of commercial assignments, as well as my own personal work. I used to mix my own developers from Kodak chemicals using their formula book, as well as some formulas from Ansel Adams' books.

I don't miss any of that one bit! These digital cameras are a wonder, and I have never looked back.

[Water Warrior 2]

I now know my old Pentax works. It had some really old film in it. Half a dozen exposures that did not turn out at all after all this time but I managed to take 3 shots with the old film that did show up. The color was pretty much washed out but new film will fix that when I get around to buying some.