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[Harryrag]

I was not the only one using film based SLR equipment on holiday in Normandy and Britanny, I saw two more individuals doing so.  
All the many thousand others were taking pictures either with their mobiles or, like the more elitist ones, using gad

[Brianshaw]

No, maybe next summer though.

[Tom_cheshire]

Here is a link to the Kodak slide film webpage showing Ektachrome and others:  
 
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/products/color

[Fredster]

Went on vacation through Northern California.  I always look at the other folks camera gear, and almost all was digital.  I did see some film cameras among the obvious tourists in San Francisco and Tahoe.  Not just middle aged guys like me, but also s

[Chiccolini]

Film is dying  
 
I was wondering what that smell was.  

[Fredster]

The smell?  Stop bath, perhaps?

[Gez]

Don't panic! As long as the movie industry uses 35mm cine cameras we will be able to buy neg and slide film for 'proper' photography.

[Tom_cheshire]

And as long as there is a back alley factory in China producing 35mm and dumping their waste in the local river we will always have $1./roll film.
 
But, seriously, I heard hospitals are going to digital x-ray.  Now, how does that work?

[Brianshaw]

But, seriously, I heard hospitals are going to digital x-ray. Now, how does that work?
 
My dentist changed a couple of years ago.  For the patient the procedure is the same.  For the dentist... he has instant results with lots of interesting i

[Tom_cheshire]

Alright, Lucky 35mm film from China Lucky Film Corp. of Baoding Hebei.  New life for old cameras.

[Fredster]

As if there is no toxic waste produced with digital cameras, memory, printers.  I can go 70 years with a couple of film cameras.  I think digital lifespan is less than a year if you count camera and camera-phone upgrades or just plain failure.

[Harryrag]

Brianshaw wrote instant results with lots of interesting image-enhancing capabilities, well, yes, if that is what you expect to get from photograpy, digital should be be the thing to go for.
I am after something else, for me photograpy means

[Marty]

A few personal thoughts...
Back about 1970, I took a college photography course.  (I used an Argus C3, which the instructor discouraged, but it was all I had, and I got a good grade.
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[Harryrag]

There is really nothing to say against darkroom arts which I once tried out, but never really accomplished.  
What I am criticizing is something of a different nature. If, for example, one sees all those dolled-up overstyled fancy no-name beauty q

[Marty]

Harryrag was saying
 If, for example, one sees all those dolled-up overstyled fancy no-name beauty queens in their shiny fashion mags. Does any sensible person really think they look like that in real life?  
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