Who here has NEVER used film?

[Sanford]

<p>Never experienced the joy of successfully loading a classic Leica. Never experienced the exhilaration of setting out with a fresh 36 exposure roll, or the panic as you are down to your last few shots just as things are starting to happen. There must be quite a few photographer around now who only know of digital.</p>

[Member69643]

<p>Well, it all depends on who taught who. My daughter, age 9, has both film and digital experience. My son, age 6, has only shot digital thus far, but he's shown little interest in taking any pictures at all.</p>

[JDMvW]

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<p>the joy of <em>successfully</em> loading a classic Leica.</p>

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<p>Aye, there's the rub.<br /> It's peculiar to choose that one.<br /> It's sort of like asking who has never had to get out into the foot-deep manure in the pig lot to flip over the 4-wheel drive levers on the jeep axles.<br /> [if God had meant for us to load a camera like that, he would have made the film with trimmed leaders to start with]. ;)</p>

[David_Cavan]

<p>I'm fairly sure that three of my four children (30 years old+) have never loaded a film camera. They may have used some of those pre-loaded cameras you see at weddings, but that would be the extent of it. The fourth child gave up on film when her first child was born 7 years ago - she no longer had the patience to fiddle with it, she said.</p>

[bebu_lamar]

<p>Never had a Leica to load!<br>

Have many film cameras though.</p>

[GerrySiegel]

<p>126 cartridge was a great innovation for we clumsy but pure of heart. The Canopn T90 autoload and auto rewind the same. ( I advanced a whole roll on my previous A-1 without realizing it slipped off the wind sprocket. Aarrghj) Oh and loading a steel Nikor tank in the dark was a vershtunkene business. Yeah, really exhilarating, San..Sweet nostalgic dreamer. Or as the New Yorker cartoon legend: "When I was your age, young man, we had to...blah blah."</p>

 

[Sanford]

<p>I don't miss it. That's why I have so many photos of the Carmel Mission. That was my go to place on Sunday to finish any rolls of film so I could drop them off at the processor on Monday. I still like to photograph the Mission on Sunday even in the digital age.</p>

[Wouter Willemse]

<p>I haven't used a lot of film - came to like photography relatively late, when digital was on the rise (and being a bit of a geek, initially that's what caused my interest). So, while I used film when I was younger, it was never photography as a hobby, but more occassional snaps.<br>

Nowadays, I do have a film camera that sees relatively little use. And that keeps me from adding a MF film camera to explore a bit further... I might be interested in it, and in finally learning how to develop B&W... but somehow I always end up grabbing my DSLR. So, that keeps me torn on whether it makes any sense spending money on it.</p>

<p>So, I do not know the joys you refer to. I can understand them, but no experience myself. The one thing I notice using film is that I experiment a whole lot less, because I do not want to waste frames. I would be a much slower learner on film!</p>

[ljwest]

<p>Thankfully, I have known the joys and pitfalls of using film. I've rarely had an un-successful load, fortunately. As for the panic at the end of the roll, well, you get used to it, and sometimes "toss" those last few frames on a roll to get a fresh 36 exposures in the camera.</p>

<p>I only started with a DSLR a little over two years ago, and I really don't miss loading film, or being limited to XX exposures at a clip, or a certain ISO until the roll is done.</p>

<p>But the one thing I do miss is the scent of a freshly opened canister of film. There's just something about that Kodak Ektachrome emulsion's aroma...</p>

<p>(probably full of carcinogens, but....)</p>

[steve_levine]

<p>....never experienced unrolling a roll of Tri-X, off a Nikkor developing reel, and seeing those images that you made!!! For me this never got/gets old. I must confess I use chromogenic (C41 color process) B&W now days though.</p>

[Rick Helmke]

I've got seven nieces and nephews

none of whom have used film. The

oldest is about 23 now. As for myself,

thousands of rolls. With a little practice

loading a steel reel takes less than 30

seconds. I just finished processing

about 20 rolls, two at a time.

 

Rick H.

[Sanford]

<p>I only wish I had saved more of those canisters, especially the aluminum ones.</p>

[JDMvW]

<p>Marc Bergman here on P.net has accumulated a beautiful bunch of canisters, but I've misplaced the url to the thread where he showed them.</p>

<p>Here are a few of my own small number which were not so much collected as simply never thrown out. :|</p><div></div>

[Sanford]

<p>Maybe a subject for another thread: what are you keeping in there now? The square plastic boxes the slides were returned in are also very useful.</p>

[DB_Gallery]

My cat has never used film...I say this because she has occasionally taken a picture of her self on the iPad while pawing

at it wanting to play her game, seriously.

 

As for the same old tired responses of I used to use film but now have given my life to our lord and savior digital, ahhh, so glad to hear it man, what a novel idea. Now excuse me as I get out the door with my 4x5, I have a date with a ski lift and a snowboard...

[JDMvW]

<p>Actually, that jogged me enough: here is the thread already:<br>

http://www.photo.net/casual-conversations-forum/00asAM</p>

[sarah_fox]

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<p>Never experienced the joy of successfully loading a classic Leica. Never experienced the exhilaration of setting out with a fresh 36 exposure roll, or the panic as you are down to your last few shots just as things are starting to happen.</p>

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<p>I've loaded the classic Leica, but it was never a joy to do it. It actually can be a rather frustrating exercise. It's so much more satisfying to load a camera from the back, rather than the bottom, the way the Goddess intended. The best loading camera IMO is the Perfex, which pops open like the bonnet of a Jaguar E-type or Triumph Spitfire.</p>

<p>I've never experienced the exhilaration of setting out with a fresh 36 exposure roll, or the panic of being down to the last few shots. I bought my film in 100 ft reels and bulk-loaded them. There was never any shortage of film on me -- no exhilaration, no panic, just pockets full of rolls.</p>

[q.g._de_bakker]

And you could change rolls in a split second, Sarah, or never had to when it was most inconvenient because you had to continue taking pictures?<br>I thought it was one of the Laws of Photography: the likelihood that you get to the end of a roll when it is most inconvenient does not depend on the length of the roll of film.<br>Not surprising, really. We do not take pictures, and thus do not get to the point that we need to change to a fresh roll, when there is nothing to take pictures of. So we always run out of film when we are busy taking pictures.<br>Unless, of course, we would change film every time we stop pressing the shutter button and don't expect to have to begin again soon.<br.><br><br>Oh, and i confess: i have used, and to this day continue to use film.<BR>So my answer to the OP's question: not me.

[kerrystratton]

<p>I have shot many rolls of film but I must admit I was not much into photography. It wasn't until I got my first digital camera that I started to have an interest in anything beyond the basics of photography. I now own my third dslr and have thousands into lenses and other equipment. I also have invested hundreds in books on the subject and spend most of my weekends shooting. I am constantly trying to learn and improve my abilities.</p>

[Gup]

<p>Man, I sure don't miss fumbling in some darkened environ with a 24 back and a freshly opened roll while juggling a 503cw screwed to a Metz potato masher, usually while the bride is strolling past or tossing something over her shoulder. I remember STRESS! Ha ha. It was much better when my daughters learned to load and all I had to do was hold out my hand. They had the most envied summer job amongst their friends. And they both shoot more film today than digital. Huh.</p>

[brian_m.1]

<p>>>We do not take pictures, and thus do not get to the point that we need to change to a fresh roll, when there is nothing to take pictures of. So we always run out of film when we are busy taking pictures.<<<br>

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Brilliant observation! Is this the corollary to <em>you always find what you are looking for in the last place you look?</em></p>

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[steve m smith]

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[Norma Desmond]

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[brian_m.1]

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[Spearhead]

<p>I think people that would have interested this question in the affirmative couldn't find any reason to after all the pre-emptive discussion of film. I do know of a number of people here who would have answered in the affirmative, had there not been all the answers that really didn't address the question.</p>