Topic: I just picked up...

[Pete_R]

I read somewhere and I believe it to be true that there are 50 normal / 35 wide people, and there are 40 normal / 28 wide people. 

Useless fact of the week:

50 = 35 x √2
40 = 28 x √2

[Indofunk]

I read somewhere and I believe it to be true that there are 50 normal / 35 wide people, and there are 40 normal / 28 wide people. 

Useless fact of the week:

50 = 35 x √2
40 = 28 x √2

That's the most useful fact I've learned all week

[Indofunk]

No, wait, I'm confusing "useful" with "coolest" 

[Pete_R]

No, wait, I'm confusing "useful" with "coolest" 

Could be useful I guess if you're pondering what lens to buy. If you're a 50/35 person then a 25 would be logical. If you're a 40/28 person then a 20 (or 21) would be logical.

[Indofunk]

No, wait, I'm confusing "useful" with "coolest" 

Could be useful I guess if you're pondering what lens to buy. If you're a 50/35 person then a 25 would be logical. If you're a 40/28 person then a 20 (or 21) would be logical.

How about if I'm a 50/40 person?  Out of the focal lengths I've used, those are my two favorites. I have not tried a 28 yet.

[Francois]

All I can think about right now is

Interesting...

[hookstrapped]

No, wait, I'm confusing "useful" with "coolest" 

Could be useful I guess if you're pondering what lens to buy. If you're a 50/35 person then a 25 would be logical. If you're a 40/28 person then a 20 (or 21) would be logical.

I guess not coincidentally, I am loving my new 21.

[tkmedia]

not really film related.. but got a "new" monitor for the pakon scanning setup. by new I mean 10 years old. by "got" found a broken monitor, replace capacitors. I decided to turn it portrait orientation. This way I can have all 24 exposure on the screen at one time. I used to own a Apple portrait grey scale monitor in the 1980's that had a similar orientation There are also grey scale LCD monitors for the medical industry, maybe I should try to find one!


Eizo monitor serviced and working.


my Power Mac 6100 by blakespot, on Flickr
my old one is similar to this one

[thatguychad]

my Power Mac 6100 by blakespot, on Flickr
my old one is similar to this one

What's the PowerMac for?

[jojonas~]

my Power Mac 6100 by blakespot, on Flickr
my old one is similar to this one

What's the PowerMac for?

is that a zip drive on the side of it? nostalgia

[tkmedia]

my old one is similar to this one

What's the PowerMac for?

is that a zip drive on the side of it? nostalgia

again that old mac is not my setup.

I do occasionally use a old mac for image setting (printing digital files to film).
While I did have to use Zip drives, I never really a fan of them, only use them because lot of clients use them. They were just not fast enough. I did use a lot of Syquest 44, 88 and 200 MB disk, and with bits of MO and Iomega Jaz 1G.


Third Party Syquest 88 removable 5.25" disk by Studioesper, on Flickr

[jojonas~]

ah, I knew of jaz but not about the syquest type. interesting

also;

printing digital files to film

wat? 

[Ezzie]

I still have an Iomega Jaz drive somewhere

[Paul Mitchell]

OMG! this is a blast from the past!

All my old drives are long gone but I did keep some of the media as curious.

SyQuest 200mb / Zip 100mb / Optical disk 128mb and Jaz 1Gb

[Francois]

OMG! this is a blast from the past!
All my old drives are long gone but I did keep some of the media as curious.
SyQuest 200mb / Zip 100mb / Optical disk 128mb and Jaz 1Gb

You too?
I had a SyQuest 135 EZ-Drive for a long time. It was released at about the same time as the Iomega Zip 100 which was a Bernoulli drive. The Zip relied on the aerodynamics of the rotating flexible disk to bring the heads in contact with the magnetic medium. As the disk passed close to the heads, it would get sucked-up to make contact... old technology.

But I still have in my collection of obsolete media a 5¼ disquette and a big 8" floppy disk!
When you think those old 8" floppies held only something like 160-180Kb of stuff...

[Hungry Mike]

old technology.

I love obsolete media. McDuff and I used to gather our long suffering families together and inflict evenings of old media viewing on them - 8mm, super 8, slides, 16mm... Did we ever do laser discs? I forget. We paired it with equally obsolete mid-century food. Hmmm, maybe we should do that again.

[Francois]

One thing I just love to do is pick-up some old slides at antiques shops and put them through the projector... It's always a surprise

[Hungry Mike]

It's always a surprise

We do that and also random 8mm home movies. You used to see a lot of old slides in charity shops but you don't see that as often anymore. I suspect the charity shop workers throw them in a dumpster. 

[Indofunk]

old technology.

I love obsolete media. McDuff and I used to gather our long suffering families together and inflict evenings of old media viewing on them - 8mm, super 8, slides, 16mm... Did we ever do laser discs? I forget. We paired it with equally obsolete mid-century food. Hmmm, maybe we should do that again.

I hope you didn't get sick from that 70 year old food! What did you eat, century eggs?

[Hungry Mike]

70 year old food

Ha - I meant recipes of food from midcentury. Like the food posted on this blog: http://www.midcenturymenu.com. Terrible food atrocities. Thankfully McD et al are vegetarian so we were spared anything with hot dogs or Spam.

[Andrej K]

I suspect the delivery man who stopped at our home today had some crisis of identity and thought himself Santa... Apart from a huge piece of bellows (16x20 inch!) two nice cameras to play with.



And now I can't wait for daylight to try them out.

[Francois]

70 year old food

Ha - I meant recipes of food from midcentury. Like the food posted on this blog: http://www.midcenturymenu.com. Terrible food atrocities. Thankfully McD et al are vegetarian so we were spared anything with hot dogs or Spam.

I managed to buy the entire collection of 60's cookbooks by Better Homes. Some of the stuff in there is definitely one of a kind 
Now if you haven't tried some of the stuff they make with Jell-O (the food group from outer space), you definitely missed something!

[Indofunk]

I thought Tang was the food from outer space?

[Francois]

It is... and still is... but I feel Jell-o wasn't invented by humans   

[limr]

So those of you with movie cameras - is 8mm still available? And do you develop it yourself or send it out?

I still have a Super 8 camera and projector that my parents had when I was a kid - even have the tape recorder for sound - and never thought of reviving it the way I did the Polaroid,  but now I'm reconsidering...

[jharr]

I haven't used it for a while, but this camera is SWEET! I love watching the movies.

Beaulieu Diptych by James Harr's Photos, on Flickr

This is probably Ektachrome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2YpcTqfIBM&list=UUqvhZuWI5mPEZQc_JDC1mmA

[Francois]

You can still get 8mm film. I know Freestyle and probably B&H still carry it.
As for processing, it's a bit harder but there are still places that do it. Terry probably knows them all.
And you can process the B&W yourself using just buckets.

There's also the Zorki 8mm reel that is recommended by most movie makers.
Premier also used to make some special 8mm tanks that required you to crank the film through the developer.

[Hungry Mike]

Lovely cine camera James!

I'm really starting to get a 8mm itch... 

[mcduff]

Is there an 8mm thread? I wanna shoot some again. I have a lovely Braun Nizo! All these good 8mm cameras are some of the prettiest cameras. I took some stuff of my kids 10 years ago and it is just gorgeous. I have a couple of rolls I am considering home processing. Maybe we need to start an 8mm thread??

[Bryan]

So those of you with movie cameras - is 8mm still available? And do you develop it yourself or send it out?

I still have a Super 8 camera and projector that my parents had when I was a kid - even have the tape recorder for sound - and never thought of reviving it the way I did the Polaroid,  but now I'm reconsidering...

Wittier in Germany has Super 8 and Double 8mm but it's expensive.  Dwayne's in Parsons, Kansas sells  Super 8 and processes both Super 8 and Regular 8mm.  Color reversal is hard to get these days, Wittner being the only place to get it.  Negative film (for scanning only, not projecting) is available as well as black & white reversal.  I prefer to project color reversal and my stocks of Kodak E100D are running low.  I know Ferrania is for sure going to make color reversal in Super 8 with the Kickstarter, I have some coming, but they are not sure about regular 8mm.  Only if the demand is there they may do a run of it, that's when I will stock up again. 

http://www.wittner-kinotechnik.de/home.php

Another good place to get film is from John Schwind at International Film Brokers in California.  You need to email him to find out what he has available his web site is rarely updated but he is reliable.

http://www.buy8mmfilm.com/index.html

Spectra lab in California still processes Super 8 and Regular 8mm.  They also sell film.

http://www.spectrafilmandvideo.com

Jharr, that Beaulieu is one Super 8 camera I have lusted for.  I do have a Regular 8mm Beaulieu Reflex that's also pretty nice. 

I'm all for starting an 8mm thread, it's a great way to waste a lot of film. 

[Francois]

I still have my grandpa's cameras. Both in double-8.
A Kodak movie brownie with the lens turret and a Bolex-Paillard.
I also have two Super-8. One's a Sekonic which I need to repair and the other one is a Bolleyflex that seems to work fine.
These two were both garage sale finds.

[Bryan]

Fujifilm Water Proof QuickSnap loaded with 800 ISO film, 27 exposures.  Included a matching strap (rubber band).  Water proof to a depth of 35 feet (10 meters) and able to shoot in and out of water!  It's pretty complicated to operate: 1) wind, 2) point & snap, 3) advance film to "0" after last exposure.  Can't wait to get this beauty in the water.  I decided it wouldn't be a good idea to take my Rolleiflex snorkeling. 


Fujifilm Water Proof QuickSnap by bac1967, on Flickr

[Gimenosaiz]

Rolleicord Va - Type I 

07122014-_MG_5503 (1200x990) by AntonioTest, on Flickr

Regards !

[limr]

Fujifilm Water Proof QuickSnap loaded with 800 ISO film, 27 exposures.  Included a matching strap (rubber band).  Water proof to a depth of 35 feet (10 meters) and able to shoot in and out of water!  It's pretty complicated to operate: 1) wind, 2) point & snap, 3) advance film to "0" after last exposure.  Can't wait to get this beauty in the water.  I decided it wouldn't be a good idea to take my Rolleiflex snorkeling. 


Fujifilm Water Proof QuickSnap by bac1967, on Flickr

Those are sold at the camera store where I get my color film developed. I was just looking at one yesterday. Thought it might be fun, except I don't snorkel and mostly prefer not to know what's under the water where I'm swimming 

[zapsnaps]

An Eizo monitor - so I can read all the posts & pics from you-guys more clearly

[gsgary]

I'm more of a 24mm guy. 28mm is too near 35mm for me so it's not much difference. I treat my klasse with tis 28 in the same way as any other compact I have.
I did try a 20mm too but that was more cumbersome. atleast on an slr. the 22mm on my vivitar uws feels more usable. still, I want to try to go wider with full frame fisheye. the russian lenses seem nice.

28mm is close to 35mm but IMO better so the solution is to ditch the 35mm.

I read somewhere and I believe it to be true that there are 50 normal / 35 wide people, and there are 40 normal / 28 wide people.  I'm in the latter group.

I love the FoV a 28mm gives. I almost glued the 28 Ultron to my Leica, and am enjoying the 28 Exakta on my Canon EF.

Me to the 28 Ultron is almost always on my M4P, the Blood hounds post card I sent out was taken withe the 28mm Ultron

[Fluminian]

Rolleicord Va - Type I 

07122014-_MG_5503 (1200x990) by AntonioTest, on Flickr

Regards !

Beautiful camera, Antonio.

[Gimenosaiz]

Rolleicord Va - Type I 


Regards !

Beautiful camera, Antonio.

Yes, it is ;-)
I was wrong, it's a Rolleicord Vb (type 1).

Regards.
Antonio

[Francois]

These are always quite good. Their only weak point is dust getting in the shutter through the slot of the cocking lever.

[Urban Hafner]

An Olympus OM 10 with a 50mm f/1.8. The light seals need replacing, but otherwise it seems fine. I had a scary moment when I put in the batteries the wrong way round, but I was able to figure that out pretty quick.

[jojonas~]

welcome to the OM-cult, urban

[Late Developer]

Sweet rig, Urban.  If you can get hold of the manual adapter, it is definitely worth it.

[Urban Hafner]

Thank you, Jonas. And Paul, I just don't see the point of the manual adapter. Or rather, with the kids around I just don't have the time for stuff like that. Maybe some day, but then I think I'll just get an OM2(N). They're not much more expensive anyway.

[Late Developer]

Thank you, Jonas. And Paul, I just don't see the point of the manual adapter. Or rather, with the kids around I just don't have the time for stuff like that. Maybe some day, but then I think I'll just get an OM2(N). They're not much more expensive anyway.

Well, you definitely wouldn't be disappointed with the OM2n if you get one, eventually.

[jojonas~]

Thank you, Jonas. And Paul, I just don't see the point of the manual adapter. Or rather, with the kids around I just don't have the time for stuff like that. Maybe some day, but then I think I'll just get an OM2(N). They're not much more expensive anyway.

if you have time to fiddle with settings then it's time to bring out the etrs

[Sandeha Lynch]

if you have time to fiddle with settings then it's time to bring out the etrs

I've always said ... if both the subject and the photographer are moving, then 35mm.  If either the subject or the photographer is moving and the other is still, then MF.  If both subject and photographer are immobile, then LF.   

[jojonas~]

if you have time to fiddle with settings then it's time to bring out the etrs

I've always said ... if both the subject and the photographer are moving, then 35mm.  If either the subject or the photographer is moving and the other is still, then MF.  If both subject and photographer are immobile, then LF.   

hah! that's a good guideline

[Urban Hafner]

And another one! Man, the Minolta 24-35mm really is tiny! Thank you, imagesfrugales.

[Urban Hafner]

Oh, and some film for those two beauties. I really was doing fine until recently, but now I have two new SLRs, and when the lens from Satish arrives I'll have a working Minolta Dynax 5 setup, too. Oh well ...

[Indofunk]

Oh, and some film for those two beauties. I really was doing fine until recently, but now I have two new SLRs, and when the lens from Satish arrives I'll have a working Minolta Dynax 5 setup, too. Oh well ...

Hasn't arrived yet? My tour manager put it in the mail last Thursday! I hope its not lost ... how long does inter-Eurozone mail usually take?