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  • srieschsriesch Posts: 4,241
    edited December 1969

    LeatherGryphon said:
    I've still got a couple of expensive old cameras languishing in a storage box for lack of film and purpose. :down:

    How ambitious are you? You could convert it from film to digital.... Probably not cost-effective when you could actually just USE the digital one, but perhaps a fun challenge anyway, and if you have access to digital camera parts from a damaged camera, it might not actually be expensive.
    http://hackaday.com/2014/09/29/adding-a-digital-back-to-a-sweet-old-camera/
    lots of starting points by googling convert film digital hack camera
  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    edited December 1969

    LeatherGryphon said:
    Obsolete film has been plaguing me my whole life. Almost, but not quite, as bad as obsolete digital storage media. :-S

    Other than 35mm, remember these sizes: 212, 620, 120, 110? And there were a few more that even I can't remember the size number of. :smirk:

    Remember real flash bulbs with screw bottoms that would fit into a lamp socket? Great fun! :coolsmile:

    And flash cubes on the Instamatics? %-P

    Remember on TV when the press reporters in a show always carried around those toaster-oven sized things to take pictures with? :roll:

    I've still got a couple of expensive old cameras languishing in a storage box for lack of film and purpose. :down:

    My disc camera took some of the best pictures. My dad was a camera bug and we've had cameras around all my life.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,068
    edited May 2015

    Sean Riesch said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    I've still got a couple of expensive old cameras languishing in a storage box for lack of film and purpose. :down:

    How ambitious are you? You could convert it from film to digital.... Probably not cost-effective when you could actually just USE the digital one, but perhaps a fun challenge anyway, and if you have access to digital camera parts from a damaged camera, it might not actually be expensive.
    http://hackaday.com/2014/09/29/adding-a-digital-back-to-a-sweet-old-camera/
    lots of starting points by googling convert film digital hack camera
    ..what? Convert a film camera to digital? That sounds a lot like putting a turbine engine on a bicycle.


    ..and to tell the truth, I really don't want my bicycle to have a turbine engine.

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  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    edited December 1969

    I have both film cameras and digital cameras. Frankly, I prefer the film. I like working in the darkroom, doing my own enlarging, burning, dodging, toning, and printing.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,523
    edited May 2015

    Kyoto Kid said:
    Sean Riesch said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    I've still got a couple of expensive old cameras languishing in a storage box for lack of film and purpose. :down:

    How ambitious are you? You could convert it from film to digital.... Probably not cost-effective when you could actually just USE the digital one, but perhaps a fun challenge anyway, and if you have access to digital camera parts from a damaged camera, it might not actually be expensive.
    http://hackaday.com/2014/09/29/adding-a-digital-back-to-a-sweet-old-camera/
    lots of starting points by googling convert film digital hack camera

    ..what? Convert a film camera to digital? That sounds a lot like putting a turbine engine on a bicycle.


    ...

    Yeah, that sounds like painting the varnished woodwork in a fine old antique mansion, once done the magic is gone. Nope, I'll just treasure my antique camera and marvel at the mechanical mastery it represents.

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,068
    edited December 1969

    AtticAnne said:
    I have both film cameras and digital cameras. Frankly, I prefer the film. I like working in the darkroom, doing my own enlarging, burning, dodging, toning, and printing.

    ...same here.
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,523
    edited May 2015

    Kyoto Kid said:
    AtticAnne said:
    I have both film cameras and digital cameras. Frankly, I prefer the film. I like working in the darkroom, doing my own enlarging, burning, dodging, toning, and printing.

    ...same here.

    Yeah, I used to do that too. Ended up selling all the darkroom equipment in 2001 when my life disintegrated. But I did keep the good cameras. It was interesting and fun but so 20th century. After I went digital I never looked back. These days give me a computer, Photoshop, and a good printer & paper and I'm in heaven. However, in hindsight I should have sold the cameras when they still had a market.

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,068
    edited December 1969

    ...for me to get into digital photography at the same level I was at with film, would be prohibitively expensive for me these days.

    While packing things up yesterday, came across my old Kodak Instamatic 104 I got for Christmas back in 1967. That little bugger's travelled all around the country and even to Europe with me (only used Ektachrome transparency film). Also had a Super 8 movie camera I got a few years later, but that has been lost in time.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,523
    edited May 2015

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...for me to get into digital photography at the same level I was at with film, would be prohibitively expensive for me these days.

    While packing things up yesterday, came across my old Kodak Instamatic 104 I got for Christmas back in 1967. That little bugger's travelled all around the country and even to Europe with me (only used Ektachrome transparency film). Also had a Super 8 movie camera I got a few years later, but that has been lost in time.

    Amazing little cameras for the millions. I had one of the 104's. Kodak even had a few models with a range of features as long as you didn't want interchangeable lenses. There was an auto-wind feature on some and an auto-exposure sensor. I think some even had a lens element that could be slid into place with a lever to give a weak telephoto effect. The biggest innovation that the Instamatic represented was the film cartridge. It used the 126 film size which was, I think, really similar to 35mm in a cartridge about an inch or so high. And of course then there was that ubiquitous flash cube. Sometime later there were some Instamatics that used the smaller 110 size film cartridges (about 1/2 inch high) which was I think similar to16mm film in a cartridge instead of on a reel.

    Cool little cameras the "Instamatics". Even more ubiquitous than the Kodak "Brownie" of the previous generation.

    My old brain may have gotten the film sizes mixed up so don't run around quoting me.

    Edited to correct the film size of the Instamatic 104's it was 126, not 127. However, there was a 127 film size available on a reel that was used in some cameras.

    But you couldn't make a phone call with any of them! >:-(

    OMG! Wikipedia even points out that there was a model with interchangeable lenses! And some had built-in flash! :bug:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instamatic

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,309
    edited December 1969

    My phone only has one camera but my tablet has two cameras. My real camera broke.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,068
    edited December 1969

    ...my phone has no camera and my real camera needs film. Hard to find that these days.


    I have a Ricoh Camera
    I love to take a photograph
    but Kodak's t taken my Kodachrome away.    .

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,239
    edited December 1969

    iz dat day

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    I iz

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,309
    edited December 1969

    Why does downloading a lot of stuff take a lot of time?

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,523
    edited May 2015

    Kulay Wolf said:
    Why does downloading a lot of stuff take a lot of time?

    For the same reason that time was created: "To keep everything from happening at once!" :coolsmile:

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,309
    edited December 1969

    For some reason this render is taking forever and it is not the final draft.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,239
    edited December 1969

    how shallow are youtube viewers?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2gWBn8O6OM
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn3NEjoKWXE

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,111
    edited December 1969

    Very shallow. :lol:
    I really enjoyed the London walk-through. :)

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,309
    edited December 1969

    Is it Caturday yet?

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited June 2015

    no, it's Thor's day

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,309
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    no, it's Thor's day

    The cute adorable Thor?

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,523
    edited December 1969

    wendy♥catz said:
    how shallow are youtube viewers?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2gWBn8O6OM
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn3NEjoKWXE

    I could very easily get head-slapped by the admin again for violating TOS but let's see if I can walk the narrow fence.

    The world is populated with plants, animals and Human Beings. Some animals claim to be Human Beings but their behavior says otherwise.

    Exposing yourself on public sites like YouTube is like striping naked in Grand Central Station. You're going to get some applause, some whistles, some cat-calls, some laughter, some creep fondling you, and you may possibly be arrested (as I look around quickly for an approaching admin). Lowering your expectations to accommodate this spectrum of behavior is the only defense that won't drive you bonkers.

    Treasure the few Human Beings you actually encounter in your lifetime.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    Kulay Wolf said:
    chohole said:
    no, it's Thor's day

    The cute adorable Thor?

    Well Thoursday is named for Thor, the Norse god of thunderstorms.

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,309
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    Kulay Wolf said:
    chohole said:
    no, it's Thor's day

    The cute adorable Thor?

    Well Thoursday is named for Thor, the Norse god of thunderstorms.

    So not for this Thor?

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    He's only playing at being Thor. The original Thor did it for real.

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    And today is Caturday at last

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,309
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    And today is Caturday at last
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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,068
    edited June 2015

    chohole said:
    And today is Caturday at last

    ....yup...
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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,111
    edited December 1969

    That was fun. Now set 'em up again...

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,239
    edited December 1969

    I picked up a secondhand chandelier today, no idea what to do with it so hung it from end of my four poster canopy bed
    electrics prob iffy so might put candles or led lights in it and hang on my patio.
    Still deciding.

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