did you shoot film?

Still shoot film.

Heath wrote in post #15453604
What's film?

Film is the stuff that:

• You had to take in, wait to be developed, and pay good money to get back just to see you screwed up "trying something new".
  
• You find that you have already taken 31 shots on a 24 exposure roll when you realize that the tail did not catch on the take-up spool and you took all 31 shots on the same frame of film.
  
• You only keep a couple rolls of in the camera bag that you keep in the car because you don't want to take the chance of ruining a bunch of film because of the heat, then you come upon a spectacular noteworthy event, shoot your two rolls in the first 5 minutes, and realize there is no place within miles to get more film.
  
• You reach the end of the roll 7 seconds before the most photo-worthy opportunity of the day occurs.
  
• For most of us that shot film... If we had the money we spent on photos that we didn't like or didn't turn out at all, we could pay cash for a new 5DIII and probably a new lens or two.

Took a class in school in about 1975 with a darkroom, at 12 years old. High Scool graduation present was a Pentax k-1000. Didn't use it much, but got back into photogaphy in the late 90's with a film rebel. Got a d30 in 2001 and hopscotched the "D" models until my current 5d2. Drunk bid on a RB67 and won, so now I shoot/develop b/w negatives. JUST got a 4x5 camera and am toying with that, with the goal to do tintypes. My biggst challenge is scanning the negatives. Large format scanners are expensive.

Firemike wrote in post #15453950
Film is the stuff that:

• You had to take in, wait to be developed, and pay good money to get back just to see you screwed up "trying something new".
  
• You find that you have already taken 31 shots on a 24 exposure roll when you realize that the tail did not catch on the take-up spool and you took all 31 shots on the same frame of film.
  
• You only keep a couple rolls of in the camera bag that you keep in the car because you don't want to take the chance of ruining a bunch of film because of the heat, then you come upon a spectacular noteworthy event, shoot your two rolls in the first 5 minutes, and realize there is no place within miles to get more film.
  
• You reach the end of the roll 7 seconds before the most photo-worthy opportunity of the day occurs.
  
• For most of us that shot film... If we had the money we spent on photos that we didn't like or didn't turn out at all, we could pay cash for a new 5DIII and probably a new lens or two.

Feel free to add yours....

This isn't my experience other than that in my 35mm days, last year fyi, I had to finish a roll in order to have it developed. Other than that, I find shooting in medium format to be a very enjoyable experience. 12 shots. Most of the times, I could get 10 keepers. I shoot enough digital to realize that what are the crappy photo moments and what aren't. I know that just because some scene may look good with your eyes, it may not look so good in photos. I constantly have to remind myself to expose to the shadows and by -2 stops to make them in zone 3. The only negative thing about my film experience is that I wish I carry 2 bodies. One with BW and the other with color. When I go out, I have to make a choice, Color or BW. Usually in BW because is more fun shooting and developing in BW.

How could you not love film, especially in BW.

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TooManyShots wrote in post #15454218
How could you not love film, especially in BW.

Yep, lots of good reasons to still shoot film.

Not only did I shoot film, but I shot slides where there is zero room for error.

Ah film...we're all old here.

_aravena wrote in post #15456894
Ah film...we're all old here.

Ah..no....

I shot the Sheriff ,,

ootsk wrote in post #15453956
Took a class in school in about 1975 with a darkroom, at 12 years old. High Scool graduation present was a Pentax k-1000. Didn't use it much, but got back into photogaphy in the late 90's with a film rebel. Got a d30 in 2001 and hopscotched the "D" models until my current 5d2. Drunk bid on a RB67 and won, so now I shoot/develop b/w negatives. JUST got a 4x5 camera and am toying with that, with the goal to do tintypes. My biggst challenge is scanning the negatives. Large format scanners are expensive.

A flatbed scanner like one of the better Epsons does pretty well with 4x5 because the negative base is so thick.

Medium format--with the thinnest film base of all--is considerably more difficult. An optimum scanning solution for medium format film must incorporate some way of keeping the negative flat, such as a glass negative carrier (with or without various solutions for the resulting Newton's Rings) or somethiing like a drum scanner to hold the negative taut.

breal101 wrote in post #15451120
I shot all those as well, but I was most blown away by 8x10 transparencies. I started in 1969 with my first serious film camera. The only film camera I have left is a 4x5, one day I may break it out again but for now I don't miss film.

I was teaching color film processing and printing by 1972. I'm not missing film, though (color printing, especially, was expensive and exhausting). Spending a whole afternoon for one or two good 11x14 prints was "fun" back in the day, but I shudder at the prospect of taking that back up again.

I'm constantly amazed by how easy it is to produce color prints today. I darn nearly break out laughing every time a color print rolls out of my Epson.

Did I? No. Do I? Yes.

There was no digital when I first got a camera, which was a Box Brownie!!

Spent many an hour holed up in my bathroom (no window!) shaking my little canister, developing 120 rolls.. I love the smell of stop-bath in the morning..

not really, I don't miss it at all.. It was a quaint time, but I'm glad it's long gone (at least for me).