The OLDER Photographers' thread...

I shot miles of Kodak in the 20th century but I just picked up digital seriously about a year and a half ago. I know how to make pictures but I'm still very much in the process of learning the machine.

I got a story about something I never saw coming. Anybody else have insight about things that might trip up an old guy learning digital?

My last workhorse camera was a Nikon F3 with an MD-4 motor driving maybe 4 FPS with fresh batteries. I could burn a 36 exp roll on one play at a high school football game.

My fastest DSLR shoots 7 FPS. Compared to my Nikon, that's scary fast. But no one told me it only shoots at that speed for 4 or 5 seconds, then shuts down. Hell, even an NFL play lasts longer than that.

I went to the horse races the other night with a full kit. (I got pictures in the People forum.) I was lined up coming out of the turn wanting to get the horses heading at me, then pan with them to get the jockeys as they rode past. I got started early as I'm apt to do and just as they really got into range, the camera quit on me. Grunty noises! Frame buffer. So that's what that means.

I'm fully aware now. I'll learn to manage it. But I just didn't see it coming.

Running out of buffer... It is exactly the same as running out of your 36 shot 35mm film. The only difference... digital runs faster than your motordrive.

I experienced running out of buffer a few times with my Canon 7D mkII, my Nikon D500 has a huge buffer that I doubt I will ever have any problems with.

I started photgraphing way back in the early sixties. I used my mother's old Leica first, but she didn't like that so she gave me a Kodak Brownie box camera. In 1970 I went to sea and could afford to buy me a Voigtländer camera, which I still have. I was late into the digital age, not until my boss bought me an Olympus digital camera with rechargable batteries. It was later handed down to my youngest daughter.
Anyway, around year 2000 when the digital frenzy took off, old film based cameras were sold for nickles and dimes. Brand new cameras, some still in their boxes, went for a few dollars. I bought a ton of them, Nikon, Canon, Mamiya.
I use them occasionally, just to relive old times.

I didn't realise that nickels, dimes and dollars were used in Norway!

Wow! I see that the Lame Brains, that pretend to run this country, have made it illegal to develop Velvia 100 in the U.S. The Fuji plant in S. Carolina now shutting down. Another 400-500 jobs lost. Hopefully taking photos will remain legal for a while yet.

Roy Mathers wrote in post #19258793
I didn't realise that nickels, dimes and dollars were used in Norway!

Well, dollars are an international currency you know, contrary to £. Other than that, I bet you would be stuck if I used our local currency, kroner and øre!

TheAnalogGuy wrote in post #19260070
Well, dollars are an international currency you know, contrary to £. Other than that, I bet you would be stuck if I used our local currency, kroner and øre!

I would prefer it (and it would make more sense).

Well, englishmen are special! I remember way back when I was in the military. Every winter we got a shipload of englishmen which we tried to teach how to use skis. However, the first thing we had to teach them was: ’Don’t eat the yellow snow! It’s not candy!’.
We didn’t have to tell that to soldiers from other nations.

TheAnalogGuy wrote in post #19260143
Well, englishmen are special! I remember way back when I was in the military. Every winter we got a shipload of englishmen which we tried to teach how to use skis. However, the first thing we had to teach them was: ’Don’t eat the yellow snow! It’s not candy!’.
We didn’t have to tell that to soldiers from other nations.

They probably didn't understand 'candy', being an American expression!

It seems that 35mm film is hard to get. Ordered some in June and got them this morning. Loaded one of my latest acquisitions - Fujica ST-605 - and started shooting. And... after each shot I have a reflex look at the back of the camera.... Wonder if occasional film shooters have the same reflex?

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vk2gwk wrote in post #19276935
It seems that 35mm film is hard to get. Ordered some in June and got them this morning. Loaded one of my latest acquisitions - Fujica ST-605 - and started shooting. And... after each shot I have a reflex look at the back of the camera.... Wonder if occasional film shooters have the same reflex?

IMAGE LINK: https://www.flickr.com​/photos/vk2gwk/5121256​0054/

Bit like when I pick up a book and looking at photos and my fingers start to zoom the page then reality hits.

Wondering about that yellow snow. Only yellow snow is when you pee on it.
One of my childhood memories. Snow is scarce now

Where do you get film processed here?

avondale87 wrote in post #19276941
Where do you get film processed here?

K-mart still offers that service but I use a company in Sydney that develops and scans the film.
I also "scan"the films myself on occasion by taking a photo of the negative with a macro set up (50mm lens and extension tube) Givens quite good resolution.

We never trained soldiers from down under, only NATO allies. Even the US Marines, way back then (in the early nineteenseventies) considered to be the units with the lowest IQ, understood they shouldn’t eat the yellow snow. But the british consumed a lot of beer, may be they tried to get the last out of it? Who knows?

Interesting that training of soldiers was done by a “neutral” country.