well, after checking for darkroom equipment on the web (the talk of it got me all excited) and staring at my bathroom for about ten minutes, i've figured out a good setup for a temporary darkroom. now all i need to do is save up some cash.

i suppose the toilet wouldn't make a good rinser for the prints.

 

I used to shoot a Canon A-1 but I bought a digital Kodak about 3 years ago. I haven't hardly used my Canon since. I recently got a newer digital and I really like it. The quality of the digital isn't quite as good as the 35mm but the convenience of the digital outweighs the quality issues. The digitals will run with the 35mm up to 8x10 and then the 35mm will make better pictures. I like being able to put my pictures on the computer and then do whatever I want to with them. I have some good 35mm pics but it is hard to email them, the digital is a piece of cake. I have had to learn to live with some idiosyncracies(?) unique to digital but bad shots are just a delete button away from being gone, and free to boot. My digital is also more compact and easier to carry, therefore I have it with me all the time for that 'once in a lifetime' shot.

 

My wife is a photographer, so I get to 'play with her equipment'. She mostly shoots medium format. My camera is a Nikon F5. It's great for action shots and it has been reliable and predictable. Lately I've been shooting with a Holga. It's a plastic 120 format camera that costs $15. The results are fun. Has anyone else used one? I'd like to see your pics.
Ben

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by 2Bowers
[B](LOL) I don't shoot what I can't eat, and I heard those guys leave a bad taste in your mouth...

I wonder what Monica would have to say about that...?

 

i pretend to be a photographer...

im actualy mad now because i am changing schools and moving from a 2 year school with an incredible darkroom, to a 4 year school with no darkroom that i know of...

i just have a nikon n65 with cheap nikon glass from 28 to 300mm in 2 lenses.

ive done b&w and color... oh the fun.

if i had darkroom access id get a holga. and maybe some nicer nikon stuff.

im also lusting after that new nikon D2H... yeah no darkroom... but since i dont have one. im all about that!

StomP

 

I'm the local fire department photographer.

www.prfd.netfirms.com is the website I made.

 

I took a photo class in highschool 25 years ago. We used B&W PAN135 film (ASA 100) and learned composition, proper exposure, developing, and printing. I used my father's old Kodak pony 135 camera and an old Weston cinema (movie camera type) exposure meter to guage the light for all of my assigned(daylight) picture shots. After my father explained that frames/sec on the Weston meter should be doubled (16 frames per second= approx. 1/32 sec. exposure time and so on...) all of my exposures were successful. After I graduated from highschool, I started using the cheap "point and shoot" pocket 110 cameras. Dad gave the old Pony 135 to me, but I put it away and hardly used it anymore.The years passed by..... A friend sent a wedding invitation tome-- his daughter was getting married! I dragged out the old Pony and checked it over- it was OK but I couldn't find the old flash unit, which used flash bulbs(further checking revealed that flashbulbs are very hard to obtain and I never re-stocked when I ran out of them almost 20 years ago) Another friend of mine had given me a Rolleiflex 2 1/4X21/4 (120) format camera several years ago and it had the x and m flash timing options built in (just flip the switch) I opened up the back of the rolleiflex, hooked up a modern strobe flash, set the shutter to approx. 1 /125 sec, f3.5 and tripped the shutter- (using "x" switch setting) it synched OK, so I went to the local photo shop and bought a few rolls of film (Kodak Portra 160 speed) and took some really good pictures of the wedding. The strobe I was using was a cheap K-Mart type, but I have replaced it with a variable (auto) Vivitar unit that works even better and I used that one to take pictures of ANOTHER friend's daughter's wedding with some excellent results. At a large brick church, dark inside- BIG stained glass windows, began shooting late afternoon inside and used Kodak Portra-V vivid color film for the timed exp. window shots - did one shot of Bride's face toward stained glass window using only the light thru window, beautiful shot!(attractive bride helped.) I'm just an amateur who likes to take pictures with old cameras. I've looked at some of the new "fully automatic" cameras and they take good pictures, but if you want to do time exposure or special "fill -in" using a supplementary flash unit for side or back lighting I think a person will get better results by experimenting with "manually operated" equipment and getting used to the results (A notebook helps - we had to log each shot in school, then look at the results by comparing our contact proofs with our log notes after we developed our film! It was very informative.) Photography is cool!