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Posted: 9/14/2010 6:29:53 AM EDT

[#1]

I have a Nikon EM. I havent bought film or used it in approx 15 years

Posted: 9/14/2010 6:37:50 AM EDT

[#2]

I've still got a compact zoom lens 35MM laying around the house, I just haven't used it in several years. I can't remember the last time I bought film...

Posted: 9/14/2010 6:42:18 AM EDT

[#3]

Film cameras are soon to be like tube amplifiers. Wanted by only the "elite". Once they are all thrown out, they will command a fortune. Say, 50 years from now.

Posted: 9/14/2010 6:42:50 AM EDT

[#4]

Both.

Two older Minolta SLR's (one is mine, the other is my wifes)
A really old Carl Zeiss Icon medium format film camera
The newest edition to the family, a Nikon D90.

I also have some P&S film and digital cameras, but they're rarely used.

Posted: 9/14/2010 6:43:37 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:

I have a lightly used Canon Rebel 2000 35mm camera, but I haven't used it since I got a digital camera. I just can't bring myself to throw it away, considering what I paid for it, but it's worth about as much as a disposable film camera nowadays.

Me too. I have a Rebel Ti that I got for my photography classes in high school and college, but after that I never used it again now that I have several digital cameras.

Posted: 9/14/2010 6:47:19 AM EDT

[#6]

Nikon F100
Nikon F-601

and my wife has a point and shoot floating around here somewhere...

The F100 gets used almost as often as my D100, which is to say "rarely."

99% of my photos are taken with a cell phone camera.. Sony Ericsson K800i

Posted: 9/14/2010 6:47:25 AM EDT

[#7]

Wife still has some nice Nikon SLRs and plenty of lenses to go with them. Strangely we don't have a digital SLR.

Posted: 9/14/2010 6:56:47 AM EDT

[#8]

For the life of me, other than large format, I cannot imagine why anybody would still be using film. It's dead, Jim. So no, I don't own a film camera. Nikon D50 amongst a few others. Film, meh.

Posted: 9/14/2010 6:58:31 AM EDT

[#9]

Nikon F3.

Posted: 9/14/2010 6:58:53 AM EDT

[#10]

I *have* several film cameras, including an old Kodak 110, but I haven't actually used any of them in years.

-Mark

Posted: 9/14/2010 7:23:26 AM EDT

[#11]

I have a:

Canon A-2, a
Sure shot A-1 under water camera,
Pentax K-1000 with a few lenses

Bronica SQ-A 6x6
Yaschica 6x6 TLR

Have an old b+w enlarger that i can convert to a copy camera using some 4x5 lenses

Posted: 9/14/2010 4:02:17 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
Anybody still use film?

I shoot more film than digital pictures.

Posted: 9/14/2010 5:36:04 PM EDT

[#13]

I have an old Canon AE-1 Progam 35mm that I got 28 years ago. Still takes beautiful pictures.

Posted: 9/14/2010 5:43:13 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
For the life of me, other than large format, I cannot imagine why anybody would still be using film. It's dead, Jim. So no, I don't own a film camera. Nikon D50 amongst a few others. Film, meh.

Duh.

Because some of us are nostalgic crumudgeons, that's why.

Posted: 9/14/2010 7:18:02 PM EDT

[#15]

I still have a Canon T-50 that my father gave to me for Christmas back in '83. I used it last year at the Air Show at Alliance in Ft Worth. Takes great pics, I can have WalGreens develop the pics to prints and on CD. I have the original lens and a 75-200mm.

I picked up a Nikon DSLR this year, and will use both at the air show this year.

Posted: 9/14/2010 7:40:41 PM EDT

[#16]

I still have both, but you didn't ask if we were still using the film camera. I have several 35mm cameras and several digital cameras, but I haven't used film in years.

Posted: 9/14/2010 7:48:25 PM EDT

[#17]

I've shot motion picture film as recently as last year. (16mm)

Haven't shot film stills in over 6 years.

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:34:02 PM EDT

[#18]

Digital only.

Posted: 9/14/2010 9:53:14 PM EDT

[#19]

My 35mm stuff became paperweights when the digital stuff crossed 5 megapixels.

My 6x7 format cameras still get used. Film is still made, but it will go away eventually. It was less than 10 years ago I had a magazine demand a minimum of a 5x7 INCH transparency from me. Had to bust out the old 8x10 view for that.

I would love to have a 6x7 CCD to put in the back of a real camera...

.

Posted: 9/14/2010 10:24:44 PM EDT

[#20]

I have a pentax k1000 with 4 lenses and other goodies and a kodak 6mp digital. I don't shoot as much film as i would like to.

I'll get a canon dslr when I get the cash, not a high priority right now.

Posted: 9/14/2010 10:26:26 PM EDT

[#21]

Minolta SR202 I bought in 1976....occasionally.

Posted: 9/15/2010 1:23:53 AM EDT

[#22]

Minolta x700.

Used that camera for three years of high school photography. A good camera.

Haven't used it in at least 8 years.

Of course the digital camera I have is an Olympus (I don't even recall the model) that is only 2.1 MP and the size of a large hand which I bought in 2002 so that should tell you something.

Don't really use that one either.

Posted: 9/15/2010 1:44:20 AM EDT

[#23]

I have, at last count, 11 cameras. One is digital.

Quoted:
I still use my OM1n. My father bought it for me when I was in ninth grade. I'm 47 now.

I've got a Canon Canonet GIII 17 that Daddy got me when I was about 12 or so. I'm 43.

Posted: 9/15/2010 2:37:53 AM EDT

[#24]

Gave my last 35mm camera to my daughter.

Posted: 9/15/2010 2:41:49 AM EDT

[#25]

Film is a lot of fun. Digital seems more practical most of the time. Kinda hard to do long exposures with most digitals, but it saves you from trying to figure out the way each type of film behaves after 5+ minutes of exposure

Posted: 9/15/2010 9:20:30 AM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:

Quoted:
For the life of me, other than large format, I cannot imagine why anybody would still be using film. It's dead, Jim. So no, I don't own a film camera. Nikon D50 amongst a few others. Film, meh.

Duh.

Because some of us are nostalgic crumudgeons, that's why.

Yep. I like(d) to use my Rolleiflexes and my 3A Kodaks and Graflexes, but not in the past several years. STill have them all...someplace.

Posted: 9/15/2010 9:22:09 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
Film is a lot of fun. Digital seems more practical most of the time. Kinda hard to do long exposures with most digitals, but it saves you from trying to figure out the way each type of film behaves after 5+ minutes of exposure

That was half the fun! I used to get sheets of info from Kodak, Ilford and Fuji with curve charts about how film behaves under different exposure times.

Posted: 9/15/2010 9:26:26 AM EDT

[#28]

In addition to mu Nikon D60 and the Sony Digital Handycam, I have:

An old Vivitar 110
My mother's old Nikkormat 35mm
An old 3-D film camera that looks brand-new.

I wish I had my father's old Super-8.

Posted: 9/15/2010 9:31:12 AM EDT

[#29]

Yes. Film FTW.

35mm SLRs

Nikon FG

Fujica ST701

Canon EOS300

35mm Rangefinders

Zeiss Ikon

Yashica GSN

and various 35mm Point and Shoots

Digital...

A Canon something or other, and an "old" AGFA point and shoot.
Still have a roll of Kodachrome to shoot before too much longer. I think the last place to develop it stops in December.

Posted: 9/15/2010 9:43:19 AM EDT

[#30]

Do I own a film camera?
Yes, about 20 of them as a matter of fact. Dates range from the 1890's to the 1970's.
Do I use a film camera? No.

D200 DSLR for business and quality shooting.

Posted: 9/15/2010 10:15:48 AM EDT

[#31]

I have a bottom-of-the-line Pentax K1000 and when used properly, it still takes National Geographic-quality pics.

It was always a pleasure and SKILL to travel great distances and take great pictures, because you knew what you were doing.

Hell, with a digital just about ANYONE can take great pics.

Ahhhhh.....the good 'ol days.......

BTW, I still use the Pentax because I have some good lenses for it

Posted: 9/15/2010 1:44:45 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
I have a bottom-of-the-line Pentax K1000 and when used properly, it still takes National Geographic-quality pics.

It was always a pleasure and SKILL to travel great distances and take great pictures, because you knew what you were doing.

Hell, with a digital just about ANYONE can take great pics.

Ahhhhh.....the good 'ol days.......

BTW, I still use the Pentax because I have some good lenses for it

You can great glass for little money buying old 35mm cameras in a digital world. I have a few German Exaktas I still like to shoot. Tough to beat the old Zeiss lenses with a made in China plastic lens.

Posted: 9/15/2010 1:53:58 PM EDT

[#33]

Kodak disc 4000. I have to send the film to Colorado to be developed.

Posted: 9/15/2010 1:54:27 PM EDT

[#34]

Nikon D40x

Canon AE1P film

Posted: 9/15/2010 1:55:41 PM EDT

[#35]

I've got 3 F-5's and 4 F-3's I shoot with.

Posted: 9/15/2010 1:57:41 PM EDT

[#36]

I have a 35mm Pentax I bought (iirc) about 1987. Took it on several overseas trips. I haven't pulled it out of the closet in about a decade. i should put it on Craigslist.

Posted: 9/15/2010 1:58:26 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
All I have is digital.

Posted: 9/15/2010 2:03:45 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
For the life of me, other than large format, I cannot imagine why anybody would still be using film. It's dead, Jim. So no, I don't own a film camera. Nikon D50 amongst a few others. Film, meh.

YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN! AND TAKE YOUR DIGITAL SNAKE OIL WITH YOU!!!!

I have several 35mm and a Polaroid that NEVER get used.

Film is pretty much dead.

Posted: 9/15/2010 2:12:12 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
My 35mm stuff became paperweights when the digital stuff crossed 5 megapixels.

My 6x7 format cameras still get used. Film is still made, but it will go away eventually. It was less than 10 years ago I had a magazine demand a minimum of a 5x7 INCH transparency from me. Had to bust out the old 8x10 view for that.

I would love to have a 6x7 CCD to put in the back of a real camera...

.

6x7 CCD would be sweet.

Posted: 9/15/2010 3:12:26 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:

Kodak disc 4000. I have to send the film to Colorado to be developed.

Can you still get disc film?

Posted: 9/15/2010 3:38:04 PM EDT

[#41]

Aside from my earlier reply, I also have a disposable film camera with flash in every car. Good in case of an accident, dontcha know

I suspect that film negatives will be a bit more convincing than digital files due to the much tougher 'photoshop' factor...though in high profile cases there may be ways to authenticate an unadulterated digital image from a given camera, showing a negative to the judge is a more direct method methinks...

Posted: 9/15/2010 3:45:06 PM EDT

[#42]

Canon stuff

T-90

F-1n

FTb

hasn't seen light of day in over 4 years and I can't make myself sell it

Dumped my Mamiya RB67 a few years ago and I kind of regret it even though I hardly used it

Posted: 9/15/2010 3:52:09 PM EDT

[#43]

My wife still loves her EOS Rebel G 35mm. I'm sure that a digital Rebel of some flavor is in her near future as a birthday or Christmas present - but she will still probably prefer the film camera.

Posted: 9/15/2010 3:54:44 PM EDT

[#44]

I just threw out an ond Fuji Endevor. Was a 24mm.

I voted "Only digital" but I think I may have a 35mm Canon somewhere. I don't use it at all.

Posted: 9/15/2010 3:57:38 PM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Kodak disc 4000. I have to send the film to Colorado to be developed.

Can you still get disc film?

Nope. I bought a bunch when they were basically giving it away.

Posted: 9/15/2010 4:05:01 PM EDT

[#46]

I tried to hold onto film for as long as possible, but when I got my Canon 1DS2 it made film moot for me. I ended up selling 2x Hassy H1's, 2x Leica M7's, 3x 1V-HS's, 3x EOS 3's, 1 x Nikon F5 and about 3 cases of Fuji Velvia.

As much as the old school in me occasionally gets the urge to shoot some Velvia or some good B&W, I like digital.

Posted: 9/15/2010 4:10:28 PM EDT

[#47]

Original Rolleiflex
Exacta Varex IIa
Olympus OM2
Olympus e30

Posted: 9/15/2010 4:22:10 PM EDT

[#48]

I've been 100% digital since I bought a Casio QV-300 in 1997, 640x320 resolution really poor quality pictures, biggest early adopter mistake I ever made.