DISCLAIMER: Okay- I *know* this is the *Digital* SLR Talk Forum- but I did not see the *Film* SLR Talk Forum. : Anyway- I might be crazy but I just bought a Full Frame Nikon. No- not a new D3- I just picked up a minty 35mm SLR Nikon F4. Over $2000 in 1988 Dollars- it has depreciated just a bit to about 1/10th that 20 years later. It will be here later this week- I am looking forward to giving it a run. Now I just need to order some film- I will probably start with some Velvia 50 and some Tri-X. Maybe some Ilford Pan F. 8)
it's funny you should post this (and you are certainly welcome to do so) but yesterday i saw a gentleman taking photos using a handmade wooden camera. he was using... ready... 10x8 slide films! it was really cool, he had to drape a curtain over himself just to see thru the "viewfinder" - the image projected was upside down and reversed. way cool. so yes, some folks are still shooting film. i am not one of them, however. congrats on your purchase and good luck with it. you have to post some scans of the slides when you're done.
It's been 2 years when I *tried* to get rid of my stash at DL. I still have a bunch of rolls left, and only my FtB to use them with. Heck I still have 2 rolls of 120 from 10 years ago when I rented a Mamiya 7 RF to walkaround DC. It only took 2 rolls to figure the loading system out.
October 2006- the last time I used film. I got my D80 in November 2006 and have never picked up my n2000 since. I still have 4 or 5 rolls of 800 fuji in the bag. pm me if you want it. It's going to eventually go bad. Have fun with the new camera!
My dad still have a pentax film SLR I think we have some film around I need to try it. I have never shot film.
The only time I use film is if I happen to whip out one of those disposable cameras. But I know the store I buy my lenses from still has quite a few fridges with film in them. So, there must still be a sizable market here in OKC
I went digital in 1997 and film use pretty much ended then. However, in 2002 I whipped out my trusty Canon EOS and shot about 8 rolls of film for a modelling shoot. I was actually pretty excited seeing the results - at the time, digital technology was still quite a bit behind where it is today, and large prints, high ISO, and gorgeous dimensional colors were not yet possible. But just a few months later, I got my F717 - a fairly 'real' digital camera that could actually compete with the color reproduction, ISO capability, and large print quality of my SLRs...and the Canon went back in the case where it has been sitting ever since. That last modelling shoot was its last hurrah so far! My Pentax ME Super hasn't shot a roll since about 1994...just before I got the Canon EOS SLR...it's still sitting in my closet - having gotten it brand-new in 1977 I can't bring myself to get rid of it. I have 4 or 5 rolls of film still sitting about - now pushing 5 years old...I've no idea what the shelf life is! I've got 2 rolls of Kodak T-Max 400 B&W and 3 rolls of Gold 200 just for all-round snapshooting. One of these days, I guess I ought to load up and fire off the rest of those rolls just so they don't go to waste. If I could just get another (female) model lined up...that would be the inspiration I need!
Are they in the refrigerator? Refrigeration extends the shelf life for a very long time. I bought 30 rolls of Kodak slide film in 2001 and got a great price for them because they had all reached their use by date, but they were always refrigerated, and I put them in the fridge as soon as I got them. I used them over the course of 5 years and never had any problems... I'm not sure what the shelf life of film is at room temperature though...
Film should last a very long time if it isn't subjected to extreme heat. But the reason for the refrigeration is that the colors will remain constant within a batch of professional film. So professionals would buy a bunch of film at the same time from the same batch and keep it refrigerated to maintain the consistency. Consumer film was never intended to be 100% the same from roll to roll so they intentionally designed it to be kept at room temperature. I'll bet the film isn't that bad, and any color changes you probably won't notice. [me=Roger]used to keep his film in a fridge basically for that purpose[/me] [me=Roger]doesn't miss those days[/me]
