tommarcus

last year saw a website commercial froma japanese company that was making a digital camera that used a special memory module that was sized like a 35mm canister. And you HAD to use a traditional film advance to take your next shot,,, and itonly held 36 shots per cartridge. Had a classic style film door to load and unload... cant remember if they ever did anything with it. But i remember the website was nice, and had a nice digital video shot of them using the camera in dark clubs

or just use an oatmeal container with a 90% diameter hole in it, to make a lens for your TLR see what happen

And to think, i thought the possiblity of using a TLR as a single shot pinhole seemed interesting

the term "meaningful" has always been irrelevant to anything other then the person viewing it. The person holding the camera may take a picture of something, for this instance we shall say " a kitten in a hubcap at a scrap yard." The person with the camera may give it the "meaning" of it "being the greatest example of social/psychological construct with the horrid nature of human childlike behavior with techonology:. While anyone else who sees it, just sees a cat in a hubcap. And with modern technology, the "meaningfulness" is reduced even more as that image of a kitten in a hubcap, can easily be a picture of a kitten taken on someones couch in january 2004, a photo of a hubcap in a scrap yard taken in 1998, and photo shopped into a final image in 2020. What one should really think about, is the image complete?

nope no help at all in figuring this out. The same "experts" that tell me to buy a camera with the highest iso rating are the ones with all the youtube videos up telling me that only a fool and a poser and a moron would try to shoot above the natural iso levels of actual film. That is an irony as those self same idjits tell me to avoid the bridge cameras and point n shoot cameras as those normally max out at 7000 iso, and to buy at least 50k iso

i guess ill need to channel out my inner valley girl speak,, "dude, seen sooo many places selling slide film online. SOOOO many are totally making it out like you buy the film, and they send you an envelope that sends the exposed film to some big company lab because they say the developing is so tatally like included in the purchase price of the film"

there is no such thing as a kids film camera. Consider that if you take that camera and transport it back to 1900, its actually a rather high end piece of gear compared to the market at that time.

When i first started playing with film cameras 3 years ago, any time i looked at digital the whole concept was "higher iso good, thus get the highest you can get". Now when i come around and have been using a digital camera the concept seems to be "ISO bad, keep it as low and equivalent to film ISO speed as possible." IE if a film cant be found over ISO 3200 that means you cant go over 3200 on your digital camera. My question is, whats the point of that in the end? I have made photos that unless you looked at the raw file, their is no difference wether it was shot at 800, 1200, 3000, or 18000 iso on my camera. And even then, the difference is really just from how each image displays on the camera screen when looking at the raw file.

makes one wonder what the world would think if they had access to all the photography done by Bob Crane?

with my af-p 70-300mm, the manual focus ring isnt the greatest thing in the world. Its far easier to just use the auto focus. Can take far to much time and turning to get it focused and the camera body doesnt get happy until the lens focus matches what the onboard distance sensor says the focus should be at. ie, i hate the blinking focus indicator light in the view finder.

going by my photo, i think that the rabbit in question is actually 10-12" tip of nose to tip of tail. The stump makes him look bigger then he is. Its about 12" in diameter. i use the manual mode on the dial, AE is ok, but i dont like how it has a default setting to only use f/5 for an aperture. And in manual the camera only gives 1 center focus box to use. I find it better then the 6-8 it gives me in AE mode.

Honestly, it sounds like someone just needs to break down and purchase the kid a digital camera. Far cheaper in the end and less hassle. But there are older , 90s, film cameras that have a magical function that you open the back and put the film in, and leave the tab on one side and closing the film door makes this motor wind it onto the take up spool....

lots can go wrong, found a low cost film lab that specialises in sending back exposed film that is clear and doesnt have numbers or lettering on it. Was simply told by others, wrong chemicals or process used

there is some labs that send it uncut in a single plastic sleeve unless you pay extra. i think the places i have used that do it only charge4$ roll of color 35mm film to process. Normally they cant do it correctly.

SOME retailers, and some reviews of slide film, like that fuji stuff, make it seem that the immense 20$ cost of the roll includes a "free mailer envelope to a fuji lab in the USA, and prepaid developing costs". IS that a crack of hooey, or does it have some truth? As i have seen one online camera retailer selling prepaid film mailers with the Fuji logo on them.

Been looking at the tamron 100 - 400, and the sigma 150-600, but I cant make my mind up because i cant get the idea of "i am getting honest review information/honest photo samples taken with it". Its like the tamron 18-400 with 22.2x magnification, the sigma 150-600 only has "4x" to it, but it gets great reviews. While the tamron 18-400 depending on individual review is either the greatest thing to happen to camera lenses since we started USING camera lenses instead of a pinhole camera, or the greatest evil to anyone wanting sharp, clear, crisp photographs that can be viewed larger then playing card size. That bird photo in my uploads for profile approval was most likely taken at 15 yards at 300mm with my af-p 70-300. I had been under the impression based on website reviews and nikon itselft that i should have been able to have nothing but the bird head in the photo

its the only lens i have right now for my 7500. It does alright, however the photos i uploaded for my account were all taken with it, and were taken with it maxed out at 300mm. And the animals in question were 20-50 yards away at the time. The rabbit at the stump was perhaps 10 yards, maybe 12. Am i simply doing something wrong as i do not seem to get the massive magnification that the nikon website indicates i should... or is it that i am NOT using the crop mode setting?