35MM CAMERA VERSUS DIGITAL ?

1/23/2010

Hi Everyone...

I have used a 35MM Camera for more than 20 years,
I even used a film that was awesome by Kodak called
Kodachrome 25 Slide, which was awesome. Then two
years I discovered Digital , we'll I'm ashamed to admit
it, I haven't used my 35MM Camera in two years. I've
gotten hooked on Digital, I have a 8.2 Pixel now I'm
thinking of going to a 14 pixel. Which camera do you
prefer ? Enclosed a great photo I did 25 years ago on
Kodachrome 25 slide film of the Japanese Gardens in
The Brooklyn Botanical Gardens..Click on thumb nail
to enlarge..

Cheers...Joe...

I was a photographer for years and an ADDICT of Kodacrhome 25. My second choice was Kodachrome 64, although Agfa slides are really nice for things like earth colors.  Best film ever made.  Funny, though, the colors in your nice shot there, green and pink, are the ones that Ektachrome handles best.  No subsitute for Kodachrome for reds and primaries and sheer tight grain, though.  Dye transfer was the ultimate.  I say "was" because I think digital has pretty much replaced film.  A couple of my favorite films (like polaroid roll films...another entry in the "finest grain possible" category) are no longer even made.

1/22/2010

Lin...

Yes I remember Agfa, a great slide film, I
used it, I have an album with 5oo slides I have
to have transfered to disc. I do believe film has
almost disappeared , who would have ever
imagined a camera that didn't need film and all
you have to do is download it....Here's a slide I
shot in 1976 Old Sturbeidge, Mass. Kodachrome
25 It's a restored colonial Village..Click on the
thumb nail...


Cheers..Joe

I have several 35 mm cameras that will become antiques. With the clarity, flexibility and savings using a digital camera, I don't intend to use my film cameras again.

1/22/2010

Abe...

Digital is awesome, I found out the other day
Kodak came out with a Digital that's 14 MP I'm thinking
of getting it .....I have a 8.2 MP the format is 2472 X 3296
I can just imagine what 14 MP is.. I also like that you can
go from color to black and white to sepia and the ISO can
go from 80 to 1250....



Cheers..Joe

One of the biggest drawbacks to 35mm is that they can be lost. Most of the pictures of my children growing up were taken with 35mm film, and are on slides. I have scanned many of them onto my computer, but there are so many more that I do not have time or funds to transfer right now, growing older daily. The worst of the losses was a group of pictures I called "Around the World in One Hundred and Sixty Slides." ( I had planned on calling it "Around the World in Eighty Slides," but couldn't cut the images down enough.) I had pulled slides from all of the travels that Bill and I had made through the years we were married, and arranged them in a westward direction (with some side trips north and south), and used them in my classrooms, to show my students something of the world around them (Many had not even been to the museum district of Houston, much less anywhere outside their narrow part of the city.) It was fun for a lot of reasons. At one point, during the slides taken in Hong Kong, a young man asked, "Hey, Miss, who is that hot little blonde?" I responded, "Be very careful what you ask and how you respond." One of the girls (high-school girls are generally more observant than high-school boys) turned to him and said in a very disgusted voice, "It's Ms. J, dumb-b**t!"

Unfortunately, during the record Houston flood of 2001, the slides were destroyed as they sat stored "for safety" in my classroom cabinet for the summer.

Had they been digital images, I would still have them, and I would have been sharing many of them with you guys.

Ann