ddrueding
Fixture
A fun look back at the 5DII for video work. I remember running the Magic Lantern firmware back then, exciting but difficult times.
ArAfGo
How To Improve My Brain Storage?
Wow, this thread brings back a memory; I still have one of those media type cameras that splits the normal frame into two so with a 36 roll we could get double. And I seem to recall a good photographer could get 37 or maybe it was 38 frames with a regular camera on a regular 36 off-the-shelf roll of film. I also remember that there were kits for loading our own rolls. Been so many years ago and those memories were almost gone until I started typing this post. I don't even remember where all my older cameras are. I've also got a few of those newer digital ones, but those days are well over for me. Of course, this android thing my family got for me is just fine these days for taking pictures, but no more of that professional type stuff anymore. I wonder if those super old cameras are considered antiques now? Do any of you still remember how to do that dark room work? Remember that special lighting? Gosh, that seems like so long ago. Actually, I guess it was. This being old stuff can get weird sometimes when memories set in. Like flying recon way back for taking pictures. None of that stuff now, eh?
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I did learn film development when I was in middle school, actually, and I worked for a photographer when I was in high school. His main income source was actually using a Kodak Panoram. He had this crazy ordering and automation system for printing that ran on an IBM System/38 (the thing that preceded the AS/400 and I need everyone to understand how COMPLETELY INSANE it was for a sole proprietor to have that kind of computer sitting around, let alone the custom software needed to run automated prints, which I promise no other System/38 in the history of time was ever connected to) but he still needed someone to keep the setup running.
Even weirder, the computer and the printing system were built into a trailer. It was his trade secret that he could take the whole rig and print on demand where he was shooting. In the 1980s.
Anyway, I do have some antiques, mostly from my dad or uncles: a Canon F1, a Yashica D, a Brownie. The only one I have any film for is the Yashica. I'm sure it's expired but I'm not brave enough to take it out and shoot with it anyway. Maybe I'll try to get some portraits of my partner before she leaves.
Even weirder, the computer and the printing system were built into a trailer. It was his trade secret that he could take the whole rig and print on demand where he was shooting. In the 1980s.
Anyway, I do have some antiques, mostly from my dad or uncles: a Canon F1, a Yashica D, a Brownie. The only one I have any film for is the Yashica. I'm sure it's expired but I'm not brave enough to take it out and shoot with it anyway. Maybe I'll try to get some portraits of my partner before she leaves.
ddrueding
Fixture
I was always interested in photography, but I knew film would drive me crazy so I held off until digital was ok. The first good camera I bought was a used 20D from Tannin on here.