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Dear All

Hello

Sorry for the delay but I could not locate my own thread!

Always very pleased to receive your views and replies.


Take gentle care
With lots of good wishes
Love Elizabeth,EOS
xx

My mobile phone is a Sony Z5 which has one of the best phone cameras plus I have a variety of digital cameras of various grades and sizes up to professional level. So I am no luddite.

I also have an Olympus OM-2n with a full range of Zuiko lenses plus some specialist telephoto and close up macro lenses. It still gets plenty of use and the film a place in the fridge! The image quality leaves consumer level digital way behind and the print poss. with a Durst enlarger and a range of paper endless.

OTOH if yr pix will never go further than FB or a screen saver not much point. As with many obsolete technologies ( sail, cycling, steam engines, oil painting ) film photography has become primarily an art/leisure form. There is plenty of kit around, film is available and bureau who will develop and print exist if not on the average high street any more.

The vast majority of consumer level digital cameras and certainly phones do not produce an acceptable image for professional purposes - try blowing a phone image up to poster size and you will see what I mean. Professional grade cameras remain seriously expensive. The massive advantage for freelancers is the speed with which they can get an image to the bureaux - but bad news for desptach riders.

Be warned that the physical life of photos printed out on inkjet and laser printers is fairly short esp if they are exposed to sunlight. Backups on to optical disks have the same problem. They are susceptible to damp and mould and cracking such that reliable life span is < 10 years. My GF negs taken a century ago are still fine. How long cloud backups will last is anybody's guess.

Web sites which might be interested in the long run such as family history have never managed very long without a large scale mucking about of their client's data.....

If yr digital pix have res < 200 dpi then you should also take account that the images will not scale very well going forward in the same way that early 640x480 digital images are not of much use now. 4K screens are already shipping. If yr camera supports RAW then use that rather than JPEG for anything important.

One fine day some chance event will delete the C21 in a moment.

About thirty years ago we went to visit my mother in London while on the way to a wedding. When we mentioned that we had forgotten our camera she gave us my father's no.2 Folding Autographic Brownie, probably from the 1920's or 1930's. We managed to buy a film and the resulting 'photos were surprisingly good.

It was a few weeks later when I was presented with two totally unexpected 'photos. My mother and me in a boat and the other the only good 'photo of me, aged about eight, with our family cat!

There had been a roll of film in the camera which my partner had persuaded the local camera shop to try to print.

At the time this happened by father had been dead for more than thirty years so it was quite an emotional event.

The details of the camera are accurate as before I started to reply to the thread I went up to the sitting room to read the name on the camera. It is a very treasured possession and takes pride of place on a side table.

I think I prefer sense, I might change. :-D

Film might be old fashioned or out of favour at the moment, but don't write it off just yet.

Kodak have just announced a new Super8 film camera system. Its got a modern twist like a LCD viewfinder, but its still film.

Andy

Apologies to KENSE for spelling error in last reply.
Phyll

That's how I found out - and it was an hour service :-D

....it's just getting to Southampton....

Thanks sense, will have a look tomorrow.
Phyll

Phyll, just Google something like: Develop Films Eastbourne and you will get several possibilities.

I have an undeveloped roll of film. Know where I can get it developed anywhere in Eastbourne please.
Phyll

Elizabeth, I have an APS camera as well as a digital camera. I prefer the former; I buy films from a supplier in Ebay and get the film developed at a shop locally.

I store photos in photo albums.

I have several good film SLR cameras in the cupboard. last took photos with them about five years ago. I alWays use my digital cameras now, cheaper to use and more control over the printing. I used to develop my own black and white films, that was fun, moved here, no space for a dark room.

Just before Christmas, I found 12 undeveloped films!! :-0
Cost me a fortune to get them developed - but had very interesting pics on them, including quite a few of my brother in law, who died 8 years ago :-D

Last week, I found another 2 undeveloped films.
I'm waiting until I need/want to go to Southampton, as that's the nearest place (apart from online) that I can get them developed. :-D :-D

Dear All

Hello


Whilst doing some tidying up, I came cross my old camera.

You had to load the Kodak film in the back and click away.

The roll of film was sent off, you waited impatiently
and the photos were returned by post.

Do you still have a camera like this?

Cameras with memory cards are a mystery to me.

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How do you take your photographs now
and where do you store them?


Take gentle care
With lots of best wishes
Love Elizabeth, EOS
xx